Author
Adam Krzyżanowski 1873-1963

He 1873. He completed legal studies at the Jagiellonian University obtaining the doctoral degree in 1894. In 1896-1914 he lectured at the Commercial Academy of Kraków. Having been classified assistant professor in economy at the Department of Law of the Jagiellonian University in 1908, he then went through all the grades of academic career up to the level of full professor (1916). He collaborated with, among others, Władysław Leopold Jaworski and Stanisław Estreicher on the Kraków Conservative Social Club, connected with the Governor-General of Galicia, Count Michał Bobrzyński, and during the First World War – on the Supreme National Committee. In the interwar period he was among the leading champions of economic liberalism and opponents of the etatistic policies of the subsequent cabinets. Apart from theoretical works in the field of economy (Założenia ekonomiki, 1919; Nauka o pieniądzu i kredycie, 1919; Bierny bilans handlowy, 1928; Dolar i złoty, 1935), he also bequeathed to posterity some works about the problems of broadly understood political though (Socjalizm a prawo natury, 1911; Pauperyzacja Polski współczesnej, 1925; Rządy marszałka Piłsudskiego, 1927, and, first and foremost, Chrześcijańska moralność polityczna, 1948). Krzyżanowski supported the May Coup of 1926; in 1928-31 he held a seat in the Sejm on behalf of the Nonpartisan Bloc for Cooperation with the Government. However, he resigned his seat in protest against the increasingly authoritarian tendencies that were expressed by the Sanation camp. In November 1939, together with a group of Jagiellonian University professors, he was arrested by the Germans and detained for several months in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Released in February 1940, he delivered lectures at the Jagiellonian University secret courses and edited the underground ‘Dziennik Polski’. In 1945 he took part in the Moscow negotiations on the creation of the Provisional Government of National Unity (TRJN); then he served as a deputy to the State National Council (KRN) and Legislative Sejm. In 1948 he was expelled from the Jagiellonian University by virtue of the decision of Communist authorities, and in the following year he resigned his Sejm seat. In 1957, he lectured again at the Jagiellonian University for a short period of time. Krzyżanowski died in Kraków on the 29th of January, 1963.



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