Professor Stanisław Salmonowicz (1931-2022) and his research on the history of Toruń

Abstract

Prof. Stanisław Salmonowicz died on 24 May 2022, he was an outstanding historian of law and political systems, a researcher of the European Enlightenment, the history of modern Poland, and the history of the Polish Underground State in the years 1939-1945, also specialising in the history of Pomerania and the Prussian state, author of about 1350 scientific, popular-scientific and journalistic works. An alumnus of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, where he began his scientific career, from 1966 until the end of his life he was associated with Toruń and a large part of his scientific output was devoted to the history, science and culture of this city. This would include nearly 190 items, including 11 books, 78 scientific articles, 47 biographies, 20 minor popular science articles in the local press, 8 notes from the scientific chronicle and 13 obituaries and memoirs of deceased colleagues and friends from Toruń. Of particular importance are his dissertations on Toruń's education and culture in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, and the role of Toruń's intellectual elites in the spread of early-Enlightenment thought in the eighteenth-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.