the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and was also nominated as consul general in Kiev, but did not assume this office. In 1947 he moved to Gliwice, where in the years 1946–1951 he was the head of the Department of Mathematics at the Faculty of Engineering and Construction of the Silesian University of Technology. In 1951 he retired and returned to Lodz. Żyliński died there in 1954 of a cerebral hemorrhage. References Polish mathematicians Polish scientists Lwów School of Mathematics Mathematicians Polish academics Members of the Lwów Scientific Society 20th-century Polish mathematicians Polish logicians Academic staff of Jagiellonian University University of Marburg alumni Academic staff of the University of Lviv