About Wacław Anczyc
Lived 1866 – 1938 (aged 72). Wacław Anczyc was a Polish historian, editor and printer.
Wacław Zygmunt Anczyc (February 4, 1866, in Warsaw – September 27, 1938, in Kraków) was a Polish printer and historian, son of Władysław Ludwik Anczyc. He studied history at the Jagiellonian University Faculty of Literature and in Leipzig. After 1883, when his father died, he inherited a printing press in Kraków. In 1900 he moved his printing press to the monastery of the Resurrection. He expanded and modernized the industry, making a large contribution to the development of printing in Poland. In 1908 he founded a compulsory school for students of printing in Kraków.
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Who was Wacław Anczyc?
printer,historian
When was Wacław Anczyc born?
Wacław Anczyc was born on 4 February 1866 in Warsaw.
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Wacław Anczyc died on 27 September 1938 in Kraków.
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Wacław Anczyc was a historian, editor and printer.
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Wacław Anczyc was Polish.
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