Piekarski Stanislaw, Encyclopedia of Beliefs [1929].

Piekarski Stanisław, Encyclopedia of beliefs: religions, confessions, dogmas, rituals, churches, sects, Wydawnictwo M. Arcta, Warsaw [1929], pp. 439, [3], dimensions 17.5 x 24.5 cm. Ownership signatures: rare! Leather binding made at Suszek Books. Marbled paper coverings [Pracownia Marmurkownia Magdalena Jurkiewicz]. Hand-sewn capitals.

Stanislaw Piekarski (born 1868 in Lviv, died January 21, 1943 in Krakow) - Polish lawyer, civil servant and religious scholar. He was the son of Augustus. In 1886-1891 he studied law at the Jagiellonian University, from which he graduated as a doctor. After his studies, he took a job with the Governorate of Galicia in Lviv, from where he was delegated in 1892 and 1893 to work in the district offices of Borszczow and Krosno. Initially he worked as a concept apprentice, and in 1899-1901 he was a concept apprentice. In 1901 he began working at the Ministry of Religion and Education in Vienna, where he was successively a counselor in the departments of legal affairs, Jewish affairs and people's education and teachers' seminaries. From 1905 in the Galicia department of the same ministry, where he became head of the department. He held this position until November 1918. In November 1918 he moved to Warsaw, where he became head of a department in the Department of Religious Affairs of the Ministry of Religious Denominations and Public Enlightenment. In February 1921, he became director of this department and remained in this position until August 1926, when he was retired. After his retirement, he gave lectures on the administration of confessions. in 1927 he published a book, "Religious Confessions in Poland," which was an expansion of these lectures. In 1930 he published "Truths and Heresies. Encyclopedia of beliefs of all peoples and times". There is no information about the further life of Stanislaw Piekarski.