reputation as a weird old eccentric enabled him to publicly express political opinions which, in communist Poland during the Stalinist 1950s, would have gotten anyone else fired from his academic position or arrested. See also List of Poles Notes References Biography at 20th-century Polish historians Polish male non-fiction writers Jagiellonian University alumni 1881 births 1958 deaths People from Przemyśl 19th-century Polish Jews Burials at Rakowicki Cemetery Recipients of the Order of Polonia Restituta Members of the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin Recipients of the State Award Badge (Poland)