Szymon Askenazy
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Szymon Askenazy
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December 24, 1865 Zawichost |
| Died | June 22, 1935 (aged 69) Warsaw, Poland |
| Nationality | Jewish, Polish |
| Occupation | Historian, educator, statesman and diplomat. |
| Known for | Founder of the Askenazy school. |
Szymon Askenazy (December 24, 1865, Zawichost – June 22, 1935, Warsaw) was a Jewish-Polish historian, educator, statesman and diplomat, founder of the Askenazy school.
Persuaded by his father, Askenazy studied law at the Imperial University of Warsaw in the 1880s. After graduation he worked as a lawyer, however all the spare time he devoted to reading books in various languages. In April 1893 he went to Göttingen to study history. He was influenced by the professor of medieval and modern history Max Lehmann under whose supervision he wrote doctoral dissertation Die letzte polnische Koenigswahl (1894).
Starting in 1902, he served as a professor at the University of Lwów till November 1919. In 1909 he was inducted into the Polish Academy of Learning (Polska Akademia Umiejętności). One of his main books Gdańsk a Polska was published in 1919 and was translated into English (Dantzig & Poland, 1921), French (Dantzig et la Pologne, 1919) and German (Dantzig und Polen, 1919). Askenazy planned to join Warsaw University, however on his way there stood Bronisław Dembiński and Marceli Handelsman who blocked his nomination to become a professor of this university. Askenazy was supported by famous Poles: Stefan Żeromski, Zofia Nałkowska, Karol Szymanowski, Leopold Staff, Andrzej Strug, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Antoni Słonimski, Wacław Sieroszewski who signed an appeal (published in Robotnik, 2 March 1920) for a place for Askenazy at Warsaw University, however in vain.
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