Stanisław Kot

Stanisław Kot (22 October 1885 – 26 December 1975) was a Polish historian and politician, member of the Polish Government in Exile.

Born in 1885 in Ruda, Ropczyce-Sędziszów County, Austria-Hungary, Kot studied philosophy at the University of Lwów, obtaining a PhD in 1911. He made several study trips to France, Germany, Sweden and Italy. In 1911 he married Ida Proksch. In his youth he was an active member of the organization of the Polish Studying Youth (Independent Group), under the Austro-Hungarian regime in the former Galicia. During the First World War he worked together with Władysław Sikorski in the Supreme National Committee (Naczelny Komitet Narodowy). From 1914 to 1919 he published a newspaper Wiadomości Polskie (Polish News).

After Poland regained independence as the Second Polish Republic, from 1919 he started the publication of book series Biblioteka Narodowa (National Library), which has been continued until the present day. From 1921 until 1939 he published a historical magazine Reformacja w Polsce (Reformation in Poland). From 1920 he was a professor at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Cracow). From 1921 he was a member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (Polska Akademia Umiejętności). He wrote 54 historical books and dissertations. The most important ones are relevant to the history of education, history of civilisation and history of culture in Europe in the 16th century and 17th century. In September 1933 he was discharged by the Sanacja government from the chair of University of Cracow in connection with the resistance of professors against the suppression of at the University and the prostest against imprisonment of Centrolew politicians. From that time he also joined the right wing of the People's Party.

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