People

In the past centuries, there were regulations at the Krakow Academy that forbade girls from entering the university. However, there was a girl named Nawojka who decided to study at the University. It probably happened in 1417 during the rector’s office of Mikołaj Sołtyk. She came from Wielkopolska and enrolled

He was a politician, lawyer, and social activist living from 1857 to 1938. He was a professor of Roman law at the Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv, a member of the Austrian Council of State, governor of Galicia, and a member of the House of Lords. Moreover, a member of

Marcin Bielski, Polish writer and historian, was born in 1495 and died in 1575 in the village Biała, almost 200km from Krakow. As a young man he was a courtier of Piotr Kmita, the Grand Crown Marshal and Krakow mayor. In 1531 he took part in a battle at Obertyn.

Wojciech Bednarski, a teacher and a social activist, was born in 1841 in Kunice and died in 1914 in Krakow. In 1869-1894 he was a headmaster of the first primary school in Podgórze, he was also a mayor of Podgórze, which is now one of the Krakow’s central districts, but

Have you ever seen pictures of Nowa Huta – the most communist-looking part of Krakow? If yes – you may be interested in who designed its unusual appearance. Of course, it was Tadeusz Ptaszycki – find out more about the creator of the most iconic Krakow districts. Tadeusz Ptaszycki was

Prus Bolesław was born under name Aleksander Głowacki, in 1847 in Hrubieszów. He was leading author in the polish history of literature and philosophy, also known for his novel “The doll, ” adapted in multiple films and tv series. Besides his writer’s activity, Prus fought in the uprising in 1863.

Kasper Bażanka was born in 1680 and died in 1726. He was an outstanding architect, Krakow’s mayor, author of several late baroque buildings in Krakow. Some of his works are: Missionaries church at Stradom St Loreto house at the Capuchin church Piarist church at Pijarska St The gate in front

Hersz Bauminger was an activist of Jewish resistance movement during the Nazi occupation of Poland. He was born in 1919 in Krakow in a Jewish family, his farther Szymon was one of the leaders of syonistic-orthodox party Mizrach. During his teenage years Hersz was a member of Haszomer Hadati, youth

Have you ever heard about Mieczysław Porębski? No? So it is high time to change it! This honored art historian, theorist, the critic was born in Gniezno in 1921. How is he connected with Krakow? He graduated in history of art from Jagiellonian University in Krakow, in 1970 become the

Probus Barczewski was a landlord from Ukraine, who in 1884 as the last one in his dynasty donated 50 000 Austro-Hungarian guldens  to the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. Part of this quote was used as a prize for outstanding historical and artistic works. The fund named after Probus Barczewski