Feliks Młynarski

Feliks Młynarski (20 November 1884 – 13 April 1972) was a Polish banker, philosopher and economist.

Biography Feliks Młynarski was born to Jan Młynarski, a school teacher, and Honorate née Dziurzyńska. He attended a gymnasium in Jarosław, but because of his involvement in organizing meetings in favor of Polish independence, he was expelled by the Austrian authorities, and had to finish his secondary education at a school in Sanok, in 1903.

Młynarski finished the Jagiellonian University in Poland. As a youth, he was active in the endecja movement, but broke ranks with it prior to World War I due to its leader Roman Dmowski's pro-Russian orientation. and was a co-creator of the Bank of Poland for which he served as vice-president between September 1924 and September 1929.

After the war, in 1945, he became a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences in People's Republic of Poland. Between 1945 and 1948 he taught at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. His war time collaboration with the Germans, even though approved by the Polish underground government of that time, cast a shadow on his career, and resulted in refusal to grant him a professorship position. He also served as the director of the library of Cracow University of Economics.

Selected publications In English: 1916 The Future of Warsaw 1916 The Problems of the Coming Peace 1925 The Genoa Resolutions and the Currency Reform in Poland 1926 The International Significance of the Depreciation of the Zloty in 1925 1926 World Question of Gold in Connection with England's Return to Parity 1929 Gold and Central Banks 1931 The Functioning of the Gold Standard 1933 Credit and Peace: a Way Out of the Crisis