Stanisław Leszczycki
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Stanisław Leszczycki (8 May 1907, in Mielec – 17 June 1996, in Warsaw) was a Polish geographer.
He was a professor at the University of Warsaw since 1948 and the Polish Academy of Sciences since 1952 (in each of them he created an Institute of Geography). He was President of the International Geographical Union in 1968–1972, as well as a member of many learned societies and the author of 200 scientific publications on various subdisciplines.
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- 1907 births
- 1996 deaths
- People from Mielec
- People from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
- Polish Socialist Party politicians
- Polish United Workers' Party members
- Members of the State National Council
- Members of the Polish Sejm 1947–1952
- Polish geographers
- Academic staff of the Polish Academy of Sciences
- Presidents of the International Geographical Union
- Jagiellonian University alumni
- Academic staff of Jagiellonian University
- Academic staff of the University of Warsaw
- Sachsenhausen concentration camp survivors
- Commanders of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- Recipients of the Order of the White Lion
- 20th-century geographers
- Polish people stubs