Maria Znamierowska-Prüfferowa

Maria Znamierowska-Prüfferowa
Portrait of Znamierowska-Prüfferowa by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, 1925
Born
Maria Znamierowska

(1898-05-13)13 May 1898
Kibarty, Suwałki Governorate, Congress Poland
Died2 August 1990(1990-08-02) (aged 92)
Toruń, Poland
Alma materStephen Báthory University
OccupationEthnographer
Known forDirector of the Ethnographic Museum in Toruń
Parents
  • Stanisław (father)
  • Leokadia née Andrzejewski (mother)
Awards

Maria Znamierowska-Prüfferowa (1898–1990) was a Polish ethnographer, professor at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, founder and long-term director of the Toruń Ethnographic Museum, posthumously named after her. She was also an activist of the Polish Ethnological Society.

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