Open Letter from Wilhelm Feldman to Frederick Nauman, 3 portraits and a facsimile, National Printing House, Kraków 1922, p. 204, dimensions 15 x 22 cm, softcover bound in paper; the paper dust jacket bears a handwritten signature by Prof. Tadeusz Ulewicz; some pages are uncut; the book block is loose; slight creases on the cover and page edges; uneven trim.
A collection of articles devoted to Feldman and his work; authors include, among others, Aleksander Brückner, Jan Kasprowicz, Stanisław Kot, Bolesław Limanowski, Stanisław Przybyszewski, Jan Rawicz, Karol H. Rostworowski, Władysław Sikorski, Leopold Staff, Wacław Szymanowski, Marjan Zdziechowski, and Stefan Żeromski.
Tadeusz Ulewicz was born in 1917 in Radom and died in 2012 in Kraków. He was a literary historian and professor of Old Polish literature at Jagiellonian University. One of the foremost experts on the works of Jan Kochanowski, Old Polish printing, and Polish-Italian cultural ties. Author of over 500 scholarly dissertations.
He received honorary doctorates from the universities of Milan and Łódź. He was a member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Warsaw Scientific Society.
For his work, he was awarded the Commander’s Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2000), the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity (Grande Ufficiale), the Medal of the National Education Commission, and the Gold Medal “For Merit to Culture—Gloria Artis.”
“It is well known that there are outstanding professors, but there are also legendary professors. Professor Tadeusz Ulewicz is undoubtedly such a legend [...] I would like to highlight some other qualities of the professor, namely his patriotism and his extraordinary integrity and honesty”—Professor Lucjan Suchanek.
