Knowledge, Integrity, Professionalism: Remembering Krystyna Büthner-Zawadzka (1940–2021)
Anna Jędrzejczyk
Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7138-9808
Abstract
Krystyna Büthner-Zawadzka, a graduate of the University of Warsaw and author of documentary references, was involved with the Słownik biograficzny teatru polskiego (Biographical Dictionary of Polish Theater) throughout her professional career; she had contributed to this project even as a student. She was employed by the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1966, and until 2017 she took part in preparing all volumes of the publication, which contains biographical entries on people of theatre from the birth of the national stage in Poland to the end of the 20th century. Her extensive knowledge, critical source evaluation skills, accuracy, and thoughtfulness regarding sensitive data were invaluable. She was passionate about gathering information and source materials, and developing the workshop of Polish biography. It was thanks to her initiative that the dictionarys editorial team applied for a grant from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, and the resulting financial support made it possible to prepare and publish the third volume. Over the recent years, despite her illness, she continued to be actively involved in all editorial activities; she participated in team meetings, assessed the quality of the entries and the selection of illustrations, as well as engaging in proofreading. For her, working on the Słownik biograficzny teatru polskiego was a mission.
Keywords:
Krystyna Büthner-Zawadzka, history of Polish theater, biographies of theater artists, biographer's workshopReferences
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Anna JędrzejczykInstitute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7138-9808
Anna Jędrzejczyk - a theater historian and documentation specialist at the Department of Theater History and Theory in the Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences. Graduate of Polish Philology at the Jagiellonian University, Kraków. She specializes in biography and iconography. She collaborates with the Kraków-based Foundation for Support of Modjeska’s Life and Art Research. She co-authored two volumes of the Słownik biograficzny teatru polskiego (Biographical Dictionary of Polish Theater) (1994 and 2017). She also prepared the exhibition Helena Modrzejewska 1840-1909: From the archival collections of the Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences (2009), as well as its subsequent editions in Kielce, Gdańsk, and Piotrków Trybunalski.
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