Adam Broż

Adam Broż (born 27 January 1935) is a Polish art historian and journalist, who has been living in Rome since 1965. He was the secretary of Emeryk Hutten-Czapski (1969–1979) and Karol Popiel (1970–1977), and authored several guide books on Rome.

Biography He was born in 1935 in Bielsko as the son of Stanisław Broż and Urszula née Jachimska.

He spent his youth in Kraków, where he studied art history at the Jagiellonian University (1955–1961), graduating with Master's diploma. At the same time, he developed his skills as a fine-art photographer and worked as a technical assistant at the Medical Academy in Kraków, performing scientific photography.

In 1965 he went on a one-year scholarship of the Margrave J. S. Umiastowska Roman Foundation to Rome, planning to research on the Italian Renaissance. In Rome he met and became the secretary of Emeryk Hutten-Czapski. At once, he took the position of the secretary of the Margrave J. S. Umiastowska Foundation, chair of which was Czapski. Broż performed as a double secretary of Czapski and the foundation between 1969 and 1979. Together with Emeryk Czapski, he went on a number of antiquarian journeys around Europe, mainly to Paris. Broż also worked as a tour guide, showing Polish groups around Rome. Kultura, Narodowiec, Nowy Dziennik, and later also in magazines Niedziela and Akcent.

He helped in obtaining Italian marbles used to rebuild the interiors of the Royal Castle in Warsaw in the 1970s and 1980s.

He authored a number of guide books on Rome: Rome and the Vatican. A Guide (Rome 1982, five editions until 1992), History of the Holy Years (Rome 1983), Rome – Holy Year 1983. Jubilee of Redemption. Papal Bull (with B. Lewandowski, Rome 1983), Rome and Its Surroundings. Tourist Guide (Warsaw 1984), Rome. Vatican. History of the Holy Years. A Guide (Rome 2001), Rome in Polish (2009, re-issued 2014) and Vatican. Pilgrim's Guide (Warsaw 2010, with Maria Betlejewska).

Over the years, Broż has acquired a number of engravings with portraits of artists, seventy-three of which were shown at the exhibition Portraits of Artists. Prints from the Collection of Adam Broż at the Royal Castle in Warsaw in February–May 2015.

In 1984, Adam Broż was elected a member of the Free Journalists Association in Munich.

He married Bożena née Sikorska, a doctor of medicine.

Selected works Re-issued 1974, 1981. Photographs by Adam Broż.

Co-author: Maria Betlejewska. Re-issued 2014.

Awards Cross pro Merito Melitensi of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (1987); Commander Cross pro Merito Melitensi (2001).