Zygmunt Szweykowski (historian)

Zygmunt Szweykowski (7 April 1894 – 11 February 1978) was a historian of Polish literature who specialized in 19th-century Polish prose.

Life

Zygmunt Szweykowski was born on 7 April 1894 in Krośniewice. In 1932–39, Szweykowski held a professorship at the Free Polish University (Wolna Wszechnica Polska) in Warsaw and Łódź. He was the father of musicologist Zygmunt Szweykowski.

During the World War II Nazi occupation of Poland, he participated, at the risk of his life, in underground university teaching in Warsaw.