Author
Edward Dubanowicz 1881-1943

Born in the village of Jaszczew on the 6th of January, 1881. He studied at the University of Lviv. Already in his youth he associated himself with the National movement as a member of the ‘Zet’, National League, and National-Democratic Party (SND). For less than a year (1906-1907) he held the post of the secretary of the Editorial Board of the largest organ of the National Democracy in the area of the Austrian Partition: the Słowo Polskie daily. In 1909, however, he resolved to break with the National-Democratic movement and entered into friendly relations with the ‘Podolacy’ (‘The Podolians’), a Conservative circle from the Eastern Galicia. Yet during the First World War he again associated himself with the National Democrats. In 1919-1927 he held a seat in the Sejm of the Second Polish Republic, playing an active part in the successive divisions and political reshuffles out of which the Christian National Party finally emerged in 1925. He headed the Constitutional Committee of the Legislative Sejm (1920-1921) being the chief reporter of the Constitution Act. Following the May Coup of 1926, his role in the public life diminished markedly. He joined the National Party formed by National Democrats in October 1928, and initially entered its leadership, but was expelled from that party in 1935. His many years’ academic career of a lecturer of Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv came to an end, too, when the Sanation regime Minister for Religious Denominations and Public Education, Colonel Wacław Jędrzejewicz, closed down more than fifty university departments headed by critics of the ruling camp in the 1933/1934 academic year. Dubanowicz was then forced to retire. In 1940 he was deported from Lviv to Kazakhstan by the Soviet authorities and only released in 1941, after the conclusion of Sikorski-Mayski Agreement between the Polish Government-in-Exile and the USSR. For more than a year he served as the delegate of Polish Embassy for the Ayagoz District. When he was relieved, Dubanowicz went to London where he was employed by the Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Religious Denominations and Public Education. He died in London on the 18th of October, 1943. He is remembered in the history of Polish political thought as the author of works of great importance for the constitutional debate in the Second Polish Republic; for instance, Rewizja konstytucji (1926), and Ku stałemu ustrojowi Państwa Polskiego (1936).

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