Adam Vetulani – nieugięty uczony

Piotr Biliński, Adam Vetulani. Historyk prawa polskiego i kanonicznego, Kraków 2023, ss. 414 Piotr Biliński’s Adam Vetulani. Historyk prawa polskiego i kanonicznego (Kraków 2023) is devoted to an outstanding scholar. Vetulani was a professor at the Jagiellonian University, secretary general of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, and vice-president of the Main Board of the Polish Historical Society. During World War II, he served as a delegate of the National Culture Fund in Switzerland. He was active in the Polish People’s Party. Repressed by communist authorities, he withdrew from political life during the Stalinist period, remaining under surveillance by the security services. In the Polish People’s Republic, he focused on science. Among his university colleagues and students, he was admired for his courageous and dignified ideological stance during a period of intense ideological pressure. This biography is a reliable, engaging and factually rich study, filling the gap in the absence of a separate monographic study dedicated to Adam Vetulani.