Background
He was born to a poor peasant family in the southeastern Poland.
mathematician university professor
He was born to a poor peasant family in the southeastern Poland.
After graduating from the University of Lwów he was a teacher of mathematics and physics in high schools from 1910 until 1923, among others in KrakóWest From 1924 until 1926 he was a professor at the Warsaw University of Technology and from 1936 until 1960 in the Jagiellonian University. During the Second World War he lectured on the underground universities in Łańcut and Lezajsk.
But after the German invasion of Poland in 1939 life there became extremely difficult.
There was a strategy by the Germans to wipe out the intellectual life of Poland. In one of such actions he was sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp which he fortunately survived.
Since 1948 he worked for the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His main scientific interests concentrated on analytic functions, in particular the method of extremal points and transfinite diameters.
Since 1931, he was a member of the Warsaw Science Society (TNW).
