Tadeusz Sulimirski

Tadeusz Sulimirski (1898–1983) was a Polish-born historian and archaeologist, who emigrated to the United Kingdom soon after the outbreak of World War II in 1939. He is best known for his works on the ancient Sarmatians.

He studied in Lviv University (then in Poland), where he received his doctorate for his work in prehistory and anthropology. As a docent he was a lecturer of prehistory in Lviv University in 1933-1936, and then became professor of prehistoric archaeology in the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.

With the outbreak of World War II in 1939 he left Poland and went into exile to the United Kingdom, where in 1941 he became secretary general in the Ministry of Education of the Polish government in exile.

From 1958 he was professor of Central and Eastern European archaeology in the Institute of Archaeology of the University of London. He gave lectures and seminars in many European countries in 1952-1965, and in a number of United States universities during a tour in 1968-1969. He continued to lecture after retirement.

Membership

* Society of Antiquaries in London
* Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
* Polskie Towarzystwo Archeologiczne i Numizmatyczne
* Prehistoric Society London-Cambridge

Publications:

Tadeusz Sulimirski is best known for his seminal work on the Sarmatians:

* "The Sarmatians" (vol. 73 in series "Ancient People and Places") London: Thames & Hudson, 1970. (Also published in the USA by Praeger, and translated into Polish in 1979.)

He contributed to many international journals and encyclopedic works, and also wrote a number of publications on central and eastern European prehistory, mainly in Polish:

* "Kultura wysocka", 1931,
* "Polska przedhistoryczna", vol. 1 (1955), vol. 2 (1959) - on Prehistoric Poland