Author
Antoni Wereszczyński 1878-1948

He was born on 26 September 1878. He studied law and philosophy in Lviv, was a doctor at the Lviv University, and from 1930, full professor of law at the Lviv Polytechnic. He was also known for his activity as a member of local government authorities. During World War I, he had a seat on the Supreme National Committee, and during the defense of Lviv in 1918, he was a member of the Civic National Committee. He authored a number of writings devoted to statehood and law. The best-known of them, Państwo antyczne i jego renesansy (The Ancient Sate and its Renaissances) (ed. 2, 1934), described the new tendencies in the political and social life of interwar Europe. Referring to the ancient concept of the state, he analysed the subordination of individual to the state typical of the authoritarian and totalitarian regimes of the 1920s and 1930s. In 1939, he was elected rector of the Lviv Polytechnic for the 1939/1940 term, but as early as in October the Soviet authorities removed him from office. After World War II, he worked at the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice. He died on 1 July 1948 in Kraków.

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