meanwhile been renamed). After the German Occupation, the PAU continued its activities in the same fields until 1952, when the authorities decided to take over its agencies and assets on behalf of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, which was then being established. The PAU was never formally dissolved, however, and after two unsuccessful attempts at its reactivation in the years 1956–57 and 1980–81, it finally was able to resume its activity right after the systemic transformations of 1989. Presidents of the PAU (1872–90) Stanisław Tarnowski (1890–1917) Kazimierz Morawski (1917–25) Jan Michał Rozwadowski (1925–29) Kazimierz Kostanecki (1929–34) Stanisław Wróblewski (1934–38) Stanisław Kutrzeba (1939–46) Kazimierz Nitsch (1946–57) (1957–58) Gerard Labuda (1989–94) (1994–2001) (2001-2018) (since 2018) Secretaries general of the PAU Józef Szujski (1872–83) Stanisław Tarnowski (1883–90) Stanisław Smolka (1890–1903) (1903–19) Kazimierz Kostanecki (1919–21) Stanisław Wróblewski (1921–26) Stanisław Kutrzeba (1926–39) Tadeusz Jan Kowalski (1939–48) (1948–57) Adam Vetulani (1957–58) (1989–94) (1994–2015) (from 2015) Honorary members Among the honorary members of the PAU were: John Paul II Jan Nowak-Jeziorański Władysław Bartoszewski Franciszek Macharski Structure of the PAU At present, the Academy is organized into six distinct sections (Classes), consisting of multiple dedicated and interdisciplinary commissions and committees. Philology This section brings together scholars who represent philologies (Polish, Classical, English, Germanic, Romance, Slavic), including linguistics and literary studies (literary history and theory), as well as art historians. The primary fruits of the section's labors are its publications, presently consisting of three series: Papers in Philology, Library of Translations from Ancient Literature (including eight volumes published before World War II), and Old Polish Source Materials. The first series, Papers in Philology, includes several publications, such as a study by Stanisław Urbańczyk dealing with the history of linguistics in Poland, collection of essays by the Italian Slavicist Riccardo Picchio (translated into Polish) as well as the following works: by on national varieties of German language, by on the life and artistic works of Lisias, by Magdalena Sitarz on Jewish and Polish proverbs and by on the two-way Polish-Jewish influence in the field of language. There are now five more volumes in the classical translation series: two translated and edited by (Statius's Thebaid and Lucan's Bellum Civile), one translated and edited by Romuald Turasiewicz (Lysias's Speeches), one translated and edited by Michał Bednarski (Apollonius Dyscolus's Essay on Syntax) and one translated and edited by Ireneusz Ptaszek (Andocides's Speeches). In the series of source materials from the earliest