Maria Dembińska

Maria Anna Zofia Dembińska (née Gołuchowska; 21 February 1916 – 1 November 1996) was a Polish medievalist, historian, and professor of history. She specialized in the history of medieval material culture.

Early life Maria Anna Zofia Gołuchowska was born on 21 February 1916 in the Austro-Hungarian capital Vienna. Her father was Wojciech Maria Agenor Gołuchowski, the Lviv voivode who was senator of the 4th term of the Second Polish Republic. Her mother was Countess Zofia Maria Czesława Gołuchowska (née Baworowska). Maria Gołuchowska spent her childhood in her family estate in Janów, in the Eastern Borderlands. She took history at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris in 1934 and then returned to Kresy to continue her studies at the University of Lviv.

Marriage and family She married Henryk Antoni Dembiński (1911–1986), owner of the Przysucha estate. After the wedding, she moved to her husband's estate to run the property with him.

Career Dembińska returned to her discontinued studies after World War I at the University of Warsaw.

She obtained the title of professor in 1980 – according to some sources – and 1993 according to others.