Editor Maria Śmiałowska Language Polish Website wszechswiat.agh.edu.pl | Founded 1882 Headquarters Kraków, Podwale 1 | |
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Publisher Polish Copernicus Society of Naturalists | ||
Wszechświat ("The Universe") is a Polish popular-science magazine, currently issued as quarterly by Polish Copernicus Society of Naturalists, supported by AGH University of Science and Technology and Polish Academy of Learning.
History
Wszechświat was founded in 1882 as a biweekly, initiators were students and teachers of The Main School in Warsaw. First editor-in-chief of the magazine was chemist Bronisław Znatowicz. He was leading the journal for many years. In 1914, when World War I began, Wszechświat was closed and Znatowicz left.
The magazine was reactivated as a monthly in 1927. Since 1929 the editor-in-chief was a biologist Jan Bohdan Dembowski. In 1930, in the result of Dembowski's activity, Polish Copernicus Society of Naturalists took mastership over Wszechświat and in 1934 editorial office was moved to Vilnius. In 1939 the journal was closed again because of World War II.
It was brought back to life by geologist Kazimierz Maślankiewicz and zoologist Zygmunt Grodziński in 1945 in Kraków. Since 1981 until 2002 the editor-in-chief was pharmacologist and biochemist Jerzy Vetulani.
Nowadays the whole title is 'Wszechświat. Pismo Przyrodnicze' (the English translation: The Universe. Magazine of Nature).