Andrzej Wierciński

Andrzej Wierciński (22 April 1930 – 8 December 2003) was a Polish anthropologist, ethnologist, religious studies scholar and Kabbalist.

Biography Wierciński was born on 22 April 1930, in Chorzów. He studied from 1948 to 1951 at the University of Warsaw, initially studying physics and later transferring to physical anthropology at the end of his first year. As a student, he became an assistant at the Institute of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. His master's thesis focused on the prehistoric population of southern Siberia. In 1957, he defended his doctoral thesis on the inheritance of individual racial traits. His habilitation thesis dealt with the origin of the Egyptian population during the predynastic period.

Wierciński died on 8 December 2003, in Warsaw.

Selected works Magia i religia. Szkice z antropologii religii (Magic and Religion: Sketches from the Anthropology of Religion), Nomos, Kraków 2000, Przez wodę i ogień. Biblia i Kabała (Through Water and Fire: Bible and Kabbalah), Nomos, Kraków 1996,

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