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Karwowski Stanisław (1906–1940)

Krzysztof Pilarczyk Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.IV.11 Karwowski Stanisław Ignacy Antoni from Karwów of Pniejnia (Cwaliny) coat-of-arms was a Polish physician, doctor of medical sciences at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, specialising in laryngology. Between 1934 and 1936, he worked at the Department of Laryngology at Charles University Read more…

Filas Francis L. (1915–1985)

Jan S. Jaworski University of Warsaw, Poland https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.IV.9 American Jesuit of Slovakian origin, professor of dogmatic theology, known internationally for his books on St Joseph and the first coin identifications of the Shroud of Turin. He was born in Cicero in the United States. At the age of 17, he Read more…

Prószyński Kazimierz (1875–1945)

Krzysztof Pilarczyk Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.IV.17 Polish engineer, mechanic, inventor and constructor of film apparatus, pioneer of world cinematography, murdered during World War II by the Germans in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp at the age of 69. In 1932, he published the first Polish pamphlet entitled The Unheard-of Read more…

Pia Secondo (1855–1941)

Wojciech Kucewicz AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.IV.16 Was an Italian lawyer and amateur photographer. He was born in Asti, Piedmont. Although he was a lawyer by training, he was also involved in art and science and, from the 1870s onwards, particularly in new techniques in photography. Read more…

Ładzina Wanda (1880–1966)

Krzysztof Pilarczyk Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.IV.13 Sanitary instructor, Member of Parliament in prewar Poland (1922–1927), social and political activist. At the end of March 1939 she published a treatise of over seventy pages entitled Ziemska postać umęczonego Chrystusa według Całunu Turyńskiego [English: The Earthly Figure of the Tormented Read more…

Photographs of the Shroud

Wojciech Kucewicz AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland Jakub S. Prauzner-Bechcicki Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.II.2.1 It can be assumed that scientific research of the Shroud began when the first photograph of it was taken, which was done on 28 May 1898 by the lawyer and amateur Read more…

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