Buczyński Mieczysław

October 27, 1941, Dobrovody, district of Podhajce September 10, 2005, Jelenia Góra

Art historian, librarian, museologist, teacher

Buczyński Mieczysław

childhood and youth

Mieczysław Buczyński’s date and place of birth – October 27, 11:00 a.m, 1941. Podhajce County, Tarnopol Voivodship (from 1939, this area has been incorporated into Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, part of the USSR).The birth certificate was issued in Kowalówka, Buczacki County – 3.11.1941.

His family for generations have been farmers.

Mother – Józefa, nee Fuławka, born on September 13, 1916, in Dobrowody. She died on September 8, 1895, in Jelenia Góra; Father – Franciszek, born on April 12, 1914, in Dobrowody. In June 1941, he had to leave his pregnant wife behind. He was conscripted into the military and drafted into the Red Army, and in 1944 he was transferred to the Second Polish Army, with which he went through almost the entire combat trail. Unfortunately, he died during fording the Nysa Łużycka and was presumably buried in the Military Cementery in Zgorzelec.

In 1945, after the war ended, Józefa Buczyńska along with her nearly four years old son and Fuławka family, left her hometown and moved to the Recovered Territories. They settled in Płakowice near Łwówek Śląski.

education

  • 1948 – he began his education at the Primary General Education School in Płakowice, which was renamed the Primary School in 1953;
  • June 3, 1951 – he received his First Holy Communion at the parish church in Lwówek Śląski;
  • In 1955, he became a student at the General High School in Lwówek Śląski. As a high school student, he actively engaged in sports – he was a player for the “Czarni” Sports Club in Lwówek Śląski and served as a goalkeeper on the soccer team. In 1959, he obtained his high school diploma;
  • In 1959, he began studying art history at the Faculty of Philosophy and History at the B. Bierut University in Wrocław. During his studies, from 1959 to 1963, he attended a Military Collage, after completing which he received the rank of reserve officer cadet. On June 11, 1964, he defended his master's thesis "Gothic Figural Portal Sculpture in Silesia up to the Mid-14th Century" and received a Master's degree in Art History;
  • In the years 1965-1966, he was a student of a two-year correspondence course for library staff organized by the State Center for Correspondence Training of Librarians of the Ministry of Culture and Art in Warsaw.
  • October 1969 – after military exercises at the Lwówek Territorial Defense Unit named after Second Lieutenant Franciszek Drosik (JW 2322) – he received the rank of second lieutenant;
  • In 1974–1975, he attended Postgraduate Museum Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy and History of Jagiellonian University in Krakow, which he completed on February 14, 1975;
  • In 1978 – he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant;

Work

  • 1.09.1964 – 31.12.1964 - Presidium of the County National Council in Lwówek Śląski (internship);
  • 1.01.1965 – 31.12.1966 - County and Municipal Public Library in Lwówek Śląski (junior librarian – county instructor);
  • 2.01.1967 – 10.09.2005 - Karkonosze Museum in Jelenia Góra (previous names: Regional Museum, from 1975 District Museum), held positions:
    1. museum assistant,
    2. senior museum assistant (also managed the museum library),
    3. adjunct - head of the art glass department from 1.10.1975,
    4. curator - head of the art glass department from 1.01.1979,
    5. acting director of the District Museum in Jelenia Góra from February 1, 1983 to April 30, 1983,
    6. senior curator – head of the art glass department from 1 January 1988.

During his employment at the Jelenia Góra museum, he also worked:

  • from September 1, 1980 to June 30, 1981 – at the State High School of Fine Arts in Jelenia Góra-Cieplice, as an art history teacher;
  • from 1981, he was appointed to the Committee for the Assessment and Valuation of Cultural Goods at the Jelenia Góra Salon of P.P. "DESA" (Silesian Branch of P.P. "DESA" in Katowice).

Awards, distinctions, honors:

  • Bronze Cross of Merit (December 9, 1981)
  • Gold Cross of Merit (June 15, 1990)
  • Meritorious Cultural Activist – (1979)
  • Meritorious for Jelenia Góra – (1980)
  • Diploma of the Minister of Culture and Art – (1983)
  • Meritorious for the Jelenia Góra Voivodeship – (1984)
  • Medal for the 40th Anniversary of the Polish People’s Republic – (1985)
  • Erika Simon Foundation Award (1995)
  • City of Jelenia Góra Award (1997)

    • as well as many other awards, distinctions, and diplomas

Membership in societies, associations and organizations (including:):

  • Karkonosze Scientific Society,
  • Society of Friends of Jelenia Góra,
  • Jelenia Góra Circle of the St. Brother Albert Aid Society,
  • Jelenia Góra Branch of the Society of Lovers of Lviv and the South-Eastern Borderlands,
  • Social Commission of the Synod of the Archdiocese of Wrocław (1986-1991),
  • Member of the Board of the Natural History Museum in Jelenia Góra,
  • Member of the Polish National Committee of AIHV (International Association for the History of Glass)

He passed away on September 10, 2005, in a hospital in Jelenia Góra due to a serious illness.

The funeral took place on September 16, 2005, at 12:00 PM at the old Municipal Cemetery in Jelenia Góra on Sudecka Street.

  1. Photo: Jan Ginowicz. Mieczysław Buczyński at the Karkonosze Museum
  2. Photo from: Jelenia Góra Yearbook - Vol. 37, 2005, p. 240.