Stanisław Stempowski

Stanisław-Adam Stempowski (27 January 1870 – 11 January 1952) was a Polish-Ukrainian politician and Grand Master of the National Grand Lodge of Poland.

Early life Stempowski was born on 27 January 1870 Huta Czernielewiecka, Podolia (then Russian Empire). According to his biography, he grew up in a multilingual environment where he his first language was Ukrainian, and considered himself as much as a Pole as a Ukrainian. He then moved to Warsaw to work as a librarian, and from 1924 to 1939 was Head of the Library of the Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Reforms, where he became an associate with Ludwik Krzywicki. After his withdrawal from politics, he worked on his memoir entitled "Pamiętniki 1870–1914", however his original typescripts were burned during the Warsaw Uprising, but an original manuscript was recovered after World War II. He published these memoirs in 1953, which was heavily censored to remove text about 1914 to 1920, and he softened his anti-Russian tone. They were republished in 2026 uncensored.