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Władysław Semkowicz (8 May 1878 – 19 February 1949) was a Polish lawyer, historian, archivist and social activist. His work has been an important contribution to the development of the Polish archival field. Władysław Semkowicz was born 8 May 1878 in Kraków, the oldest child of Aleksander Semkowicz and Marie Schier. In 1902 he became a doctor of law. During World War I, at the beginning of 1915 in Vienna, he became chairman of the board of the Polish War Archive. In 1917 he reviewed the drafts of a new law and archival regulations prepared by the Archival Commission of the Temporary Council of State. His position was later used during work on the rescript of the Regency Council on archives. On 8 March 1925 he was elected president of the Polish Heraldic Society in Lviv. In the years 1924–1933 he was the editor of the Encyclopedia of Auxiliary Sciences of History, which had three editions before the outbreak of World War II: 1924, 1929, 1933. During the occupation he was initially imprisoned as a result of the Sonderaktion Krakau in Sachsenhausen. After being released from the camp, he worked at the Institute for German Work in the East, according…