Wacław Anczyc
Printer,historian
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| Intro | Printer,historian | |
| was | Historian | |
| Work field | Social science | |
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| Birth | 4 February 1866 | |
| Death | 27 September 1938 (aged 72 years) |
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Wacław Zygmunt Anczyc (born February 4, 1866 in Warsaw, died. September 27, 1938 in Kraków) was a Polish printer and historian, son of Władysław Ludwik Anczyc. He studied history at the Jagiellonian University Faculty of Literature and in Leipzig. After 1883, when his father died, he inherited a printing press in Kraków. In 1900 he moved his printing press to the monastery of the Resurrection. He expanded and modernized the industry, making a large contribution to the development of printing in Poland. In 1908 he founded a compulsory school for students of printing in Kraków.