The Polish Academy of Skills (Polish: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, PAU), till 1919 just The Academy of Skills (Akademia Umiejętności, AU) founded in 1872 in Kraków as continuation of the Kraków Scientific Society (Towarzystwo Naukowe Krakowskie, est. 1816) was the most important Polish scientific organiation of the 19th and 20th centuries. Its main goals were to organize, conduct and support scientific research and to represent Polish scientists around the world. In 1951 it was merged with other institutions to form the Polish Academy of Sciences (Polska Akademia Nauk, PAN), reactivated in 1989.
Initially PAU had three divisions:
- I - Philological (Filologiczny)
- II - Historical-Philosophical (Historyczno-Filozoficzny)
- III - Mathematical-Natural (Matematyczno-Przyrodniczy)
- IV - Medical (Lekarski) - since 1930
Modern PAU divisions:
- I - Philological (Filologiczny)
- II - Historical-Philosophical (Historyczno-Filozoficzny)
- III - Mathematical-Physical-Chemical (Matematyczno-Fizyczno-Chemiczny)
- IV - Natural (Przyrodniczy)
- V - Medical (Lekarski)
- VI - Artistic (Twórczości Artystycznej)
The presidents of PAU
- J. Majer (1872–90),
- S. Tarnowski (1890–1917),
- K. Morawski (1917–25),
- J.M. Rozwadowski (1925–29),
- K. Kostanecki (1929–34),
- S. Wróblewski (1934–38),
- S. Kutrzeba (1939–46),
- K. Nitsch (1946–57),
- A. Krzyżanowski (1957–58),
- Gerard Labuda (1989–94),
- K. Kowalski (od 1994);
The secrataries general of PAU
- J. Szujski (1872–83),
- S. Tarnowski (1883–90),
- S. Smolka (1890–1903),
- B. Ulanowski (1903–19),
- K. Kostanecki (1919–21),
- S. Wróblewski (1921–26),
- S. Kutrzeba (1926–39),
- T. Kowalski (1939–48),
- J. Dąbrowski (1948–57),
- A. Vetulani (1957–58),
- J. Skąpski (1989–94),
- J. Wyrozumski (od 1994).
Members
Till 1952 PAU had in total of 676 domestic and 264 international members.
Famous members:
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