[dedication] MAURER Roman - Officials of the chancellery of the princes and kings of Poland...1884

MAURER Roman. Chancellery officials of the princes and kings of Poland until 1386. A diplomatic study. Part III. Brody 1884. pp. [2], 45; 23cm.

Original softcover. Good condition, rubbing of the binding, reinforcement with a strip of paper on the spine.

On the back of the title page, dedication by the author to Prof. Stanislaw Smolka.

Roman Maurer (1852-1884) - Polish historian-medievalist; studied in Lviv under Ksawery Liske, then in Berlin, in 1879 defended his doctoral thesis at the University of Lviv and began work as a teacher at the Brody Gymnasium.

Stanislaw Smolka (1854-1924) - Polish historian, co-founder and representative of the Krakow school of history, son of prominent lawyer and politician Franciszek Smolka.