Department of the Polish Biographical Dictionary

Head: Professor Andrzej Romanowski – Editor-in-Chief of the PBD

Department website: http://www.psb.pan.krakow.pl/

Contact:
Sławkowska 17
31-016 Kraków
phone: 12 422 29 61
phone: 12 428 64 47
fax: 12 421 37 87

Section for the medieval and modern periods: phone 12 428 64 42
Section for the 19th and 20th centuries: phone 12 428 64 44

Technical servicing and organisational handling of the works carried out by the Department have been delegated or devolved to employees of the Janusz Tazbir Library of the Institute, and the Secretariat of the Institute.

Contact for technical and administrative enquiries:
Bożena Bigaj, MA, phone: 12 428 64 40
Jolanta Kawa-Grębska, MA, phone: 12 421 37 87

The task of the Department is to edit and publish the Polish Biographical Dictionary. Three fascicles of the Dictionary are published every year, with 85–90 entries in each. A single volume, composed of four fascicles, includes 960 columns (c. 1,500 standard pages) of encyclopaedic and monographical content, thoroughly checked for accuracy. The editors prepare lists of entries for subsequent planned fascicles, seek potential authors and commission the entries. Having received a draft entry for review, they check whether the data provided in the text and the bibliographical information are accurate and complete. Cooperating with the authors and reviewers with regard to the given entry, they often carry out their own research in libraries and archives with a view to supplementing the collected information. If an author cannot be found, the editors urgently prepare the entries themselves and, additionally, work on new entries planned on their own initiative coupled with their knowledge and dedication to compiling the biographical notes for the Dictionary. In addition, the editors also pursue their own research projects.

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