%0 Journal Article
%T “Describing a Giant is a Bold Endeavor...” The Biography of Professor Józef Kostrzewski (1885–1969), a Leading Polish Prehistorian and Museologist, and How It Came About
%A Prinke, Andrzej
%J Quarterly Journal of the History of Science and Technology
%V 2019
%R 10.4467/0023589XKHNT.19.005.10113
%N Volume 64, Issue 1
%P 97-112
%K biographical writing, prehistory, archaeology, Józef Kostrzewski, Greater Poland, German studies, epistolography, political writing, underground movement
%@ 0023-589X
%D 2019
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/kwartalnik-historii-nauki-i-techniki/article/giganta-opisywac-zuchwale-rzemioslo-jak-powstawala-biografia-prof-jozefa-kostrzewskiego-1885-1969-czolowego-polskiego-prehistoryka-i-muzeologa
%X The article presents the sources of inspiration, assumptions and implementation of a long-term (2009–2018) project devoted to the biography of Professor Józef Kostrzewski, a leading 20th-century Polish prehistorian. This project was implemented by the author of the article as an employee of the Archaeological Museum in Poznań, and later, following retirement, as a worker in the Poznań Branch of the Archives of the Polish Academy of Sciences. As a result of an extensive archival and bibliographic query, a number of new facts about the life and work of the Professor were unearthed, especially regarding his activities outside the academic field of interest (including a number of social, patriotic and religious initiatives, often carried out within the underground movement, since Poland existed only as a partitioned land). The results obtained will be soon presented in a monograph entitled Żywot długi, pracowity i spełniony. Profesor Józef Kostrzewski (1885–1969) – prehistoryk, patriota, Europejczyk, which is underway since 2014 in co-authorship with Dr. Jarmila Elżbieta Kaczmarek.