RUDOLF ŚMIAŁOWSKI (1903-1980) AND HIS CONTRIBUTION TO THE STUDY AND DOCUMENTATION OF RELICS OF WOODEN ARCHITECTURE

Professor Rudolf Śmiałowski is an extraordinary figure, who symbolically links the times of the Second and Third Republics of Poland. He was a professor of architecture, an organiser of clandestine teaching, a researcher of historical wooden buildings, a co-founder of the Cracow University of Technology, a tourism enthusiast and a patriot. He was thorough in action and modest, but at the same time uncompromising, true to ethical and national ideals.