Krzysztof Pilarczyk Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.IV.22 Polish biblical scholar, member of the Association of Polish Biblical Scholars, populariser of theology, author of religious books, publicist, sindonologist. His first syndonological publications appeared in the first half of the 1970s. He became interested in the Turin Shroud during an extended Read more…
Krzysztof Pilarczyk Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.IV.21 Polish physician, expert in human anatomy and surgeon (at the age of 36 he obtained his doctorate in medical sciences), syndonologist combining prewar and postwar traditions. He began to develop his interest in the Turin Shroud as a young doctor with a Read more…
Jan S. Jaworski University of Warsaw, Poland https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.IV.19 American photographer and film producer, official photographer documenting the work of the Shroud of Turin Research Project (→STURP), populariser of knowledge about the Shroud of Turin primarily as founder of the oldest and largest website dedicated to the Shroud, and the Shroud Read more…
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…
Krzysztof Pilarczyk Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.IV.8 Graduate of chemistry at the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (1952), long-time employee of the Haematology Clinic of the Medical Academy in Poznań (1957–1984), Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy for Medical Analytics (1993–1996). He Read more…
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…
Jan S. Jaworski University of Warsaw, Poland https://doi.org/10.12797/9788381388368.IV.10 American biophysicist, professor of medical sciences, internationally renowned specialist in the reticuloendothelial system (nowadays known as the macrophage system), co-author of the pioneering work confirming the presence of authentic blood on the Shroud of Turin. He was born on 28 November 1921 Read more…
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…
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…
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…