Michał Bobrzyński

Michał Bobrzyński (born Sept. 30, 1849, Kraków, Pol., Austrian Empire—died July 3, 1935, Poznań, Pol.) was a Polish historian and Conservative politician who maintained that the weakening of the central government had been the main cause of the 18th-century partitions of Poland and, on that basis, inaugurated a reappraisal of Poland’s history. Professor of legal history at the University of Kraków (1877), Bobrzyński studied (1873–85) the social history of medieval Poland, published his politically influential...