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Alexander Semkowicz, Bookbinding 1948

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Year of publication: 1948
Publisher: Wiedza Zawód Kultura
Condition: Used
Cover type: Soft
Size: 16x22cm
Number of pages: 190
Weight: 0.28 kg

Aleksander Semkowicz - Polish bibliographer and bookbinder, lover of the literature of Adam Mickiewicz, senator in the Second Republic. Initiator of the establishment of the Adam Mickiewicz Museum of Literature in Warsaw and in 1950-1954 its first director. He learned the bookbinder's trade and, thanks to a scholarship, went to study in Świebodzin, Kiel and Leipzig. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Graphic Arts in Leipzig. In 1912-1917 he was technical manager of the bookbindery of the Ossoline National Institute in Lviv. In 1918-1919, he fought in the Polish-Ukrainian War in the ranks of the Polish Army, and after his discharge from the army, he established his own bookbinding business. Over the years, he began to specialize in the conservation of old prints. After the outbreak of World War II and the incorporation of Lviv into the USSR, he lost his business. Due to the loss of his job, he was employed as a conservator of antique books at the Ossolineum. During the German occupation, the family was evicted, and Semkowicz supported himself by trading potatoes. In 1944, he was exiled to Donbass, from where he returned on foot after nine months and settled in Krakow.
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