Adam Łukaszewicz
Adam Tadeusz Łukaszewicz – Polish papyrologist and Mediterranean archaeologist, professor at the University of Warsaw, affiliated with the Papyrology Department at the Faculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw.
Biography
Łukaszewicz studied Mediterranean archaeology at the University of Warsaw, completing his master's thesis on the iconography of the anchorites Aaron based on a mural from the Faras Cathedral in 1974. He has been associated with the University of Warsaw since 1974. He obtained his Ph.D. in humanities in 1978, defending a dissertation on "Public Buildings in Roman Egypt based on Papyrus Sources," and habilitation in 1992 based on the work "Aegyptiaca Antoniniana. The Activity of Caracalla in Egypt 215–216." Since 1995, he has held the position of a university lecturer in the Papyrology Department. On March 5, 2004, the President conferred on him the scientific title of Professor.Łukaszewicz is also a permanent collaborator of the Center for Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Warsaw in Cairo, a member of the Scientific Council of the center, and has worked in Alexandria and in other Polish archaeological missions. He conducts epigraphic research in the Valley of the Kings, led an excavation mission in Dendera in Upper Egypt. In 1991, he became a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Author of books and numerous scientific articles, as well as translations of scientific literature. A popularizer of knowledge about antiquity.