Stefan Jakobielski

Stefan Karol Jakobielski (born August 11, 1937 in Warsaw) is a Polish historian, archaeologist, philologist, epigraphist. One of the pioneers of nubiology. He participated in archaeological research in Faras, Tell Atrib, Palmyra, Deir el-Bahari and Qasr Ibrim; directed the archaeological works at Old Dongola.

Stefan Jakobielski was born on August 11, 1937 in Warsaw. His parents were Karol Jakobielski and Halina née Grzymała. He graduated from secondary school – liceum im. St. Małachowskiego – in Płock. He began studying at the University of Warsaw in 1954.

Since the early 1960s he participated in the excavation works in Faras led by Kazimierz Michałowski. From 1961 Jakobielski participated in the archaeological effort as a coptologist, documenting and researching inscriptions. He took part in key works at the archaeological site in Faras – the discovery of the cathedral with wall paintings in the 1961/62 season and during two subsequent expeditions:1962/1963 and 1963/64; he also participated in the removal and transfer of wall paintings and the documentation of discoveries, presented now at the Faras Gallery at the National Museum in Warsaw. In early 1960s Stefan Jakobielski participated in works at many other archaeological sites: in 1962, as an epigrapher at Tell Atrib and Palmyra. In 1962/63 he took part in research and excavation work at Deir el-Bahari at the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut and the temple of Totmes III. In 1968 Jakobielski successfully defended his phD thesis.

In 1966 Stefan Jakobielski became director of excavation works at the Nubian site of Dongola, a function he held until 2006. Reports from excavations at that site were published in „Dongola Studien”. The excavations in Dongola were concluded by an exhibition at the National Museum in Warsaw in 2006, entitled Polish excavations in Old Dongola. 45 years of archaeological cooperation with Sudan; Jakobielski was the co-curator of that exhibition. The exhibition contained artifacts discovered at multiple sites and borrowed from the National Museum of Sudan in Khartoum.

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