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Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz (1 September 1883, in Narva – 1 October 1948, in Kraków) was a Polish architect and conservator of monuments, a leading representative of historicism and modernism in Poland.
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Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz (1 September 1883, in Narva – 1 October 1948, in Kraków) was a Polish architect and conservator of monuments, a leading representative of historicism and modernism in Poland.
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Life and career He was born on 1 September 1883 in Narva, Russian Empire (present-day Estonia) to parents Polikarp Szyszko-Bohusz and mother Marcelina (née Rząśnicka). Between 1902 and 1909, he studied in Saint Petersburg, later also in Austria in Germany. In 1910 Szyszko-Bohusz began lecturing at the Jagiellonian University and at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. In 1912 he moved to Lwow, to lecture at the Lviv Polytechnic, where he remained until 1916. Upon returning to Krakow, in 1916, Szyszko-Bohusz was given the post of the director of renovation crew of the Wawel Castle. Due to his efforts, several buildings as well as rooms of the castle were remodelled and renewed. He discovered remnants of the Romanesque prince's palladium in front of the northern elevation of the castle (1921). In the years 1935–1938 he conducted restoration works in the western part of the cathedral. It was at that time that in St. Leonard's Crypt bishop Maurus's tomb was found (d. 1118), as well as several fragments of the walls of the Romanesque cathedral and traces of its sequence of transformations. He created the sarcophagus of Juliusz Słowacki and helped with creation of the crypt of Jozef…
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Honours Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1938) Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1928) Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1921)