Stanisław Smolka

Stanisław Smolka (29 June 1854 in Lwów – 27 August 1924 in Nowoszyce) was a Polish historian and publicist, professor at the Jagiellonian University and the Catholic University of Lublin, Secretary General of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Biography He was born into the family of a Polish lawyer and independence activist and Leokadia née Bekier (Bäcker von Salzheim) in Lviv. He graduated from the Franz Josef Gymnasium Lviv, then attended the University of Lviv, and took up studies in Göttingen.

He educated many prominent historians, including: , Franciszek Bujak, Stanisław Kętrzyński, Jan Karol Kochanowski, Feliks Koneczny, , Stanisław Kutrzeba, Wacław Sobieski, Wacław Tokarz, Bolesław Ulanowski, Stanisław Zakrzewski.

Family Smolka married on July 21, 1877, Maria Kremer, daughter of Józef Kremer, with whom he had two daughters, Maria (born 1878), wife of Karol Orda, and Jadwiga (1880-1966). After her death, he married Wanda Maria Orda on September 21. From his second marriage he had four sons. Two of them, Stanisław (1891-1915) and Karol (1893-1916), died in Austrian service during World War I, Witold died after two surgical operations (1893-1909). The oldest Kazimierz was captured by the Russians in the Battle of the Vistula River and spent several years in Siberia, after returning he dealt with the administration of landholdings.