[BUDKA Wlodzimierz] - An anthology of works by the historian of papermaking....

[BUDKA Włodzimierz]. An anthology of works by the historian of papermaking...Łódź 2009. Museum of Papermaking in Duszniki-Zdrój. Pp. 352, illustrations in text; 29.5cm.

Original softcover. Good+ condition, undated stamps.

Includes, among others: Biographies of Włodzimierz Budka, Bibliographies of works by Włodzimierz Budka, (detailed table of contents on scan).

Włodzimierz Budka (1894-1977) - historian and archivist. Son of Felix and Aniela née Żaboklicka. He graduated from the Real School in Warsaw (1913) and from the Polish Gymnasium in Plock (1916). He studied and graduated in history and Polish philology at Jagiellonian University. During his studies he was a recipient of a scholarship from the Mianowski Fund. Under the supervision of Prof. Waclaw Sobieski, he prepared and defended in 1923 his doctoral dissertation entitled Manifestations of the Reformation in Mazovia in the years 1525-1586. From November 1918 to March 1919 he was a member of the Academic Battalion in Cracow. From 1919 an employee of the Territorial Archive, and then from 1936 of the State Archive in Cracow. From October 1928 to April 1929 a participant in the so-called Rome Expedition, whose task was to search the Vatican Archives for materials relating to the beginnings of the permanent nunciature in Poland. During the Nazi occupation, he participated in the campaign to secure Polish archival collections. In 1945-1950, he was director of the State Archives in Cracow, and then head of the Old Polish department at Wawel Castle (1951-1964). He retired in 1964. He was a member of the Heraldic and Artistic Commission of the Ministry of Education for the establishment of the State Emblem, as well as the Council of the Polish Biographical Dictionary and the Council of Publications of the Supreme Directorate of State Archives. He was a researcher of the history of papermaking in Poland, 16th-century Polish private libraries, seals of ancient Polish cities and the history of the Reformation in Poland.