Andrzej Vincenz

Andrzej Vincenz, Breslau 1989
Andrzej Vincenz, Breslau 1989

At the end of the 1980s and beginning of the 1990s, his friends Konstanty Jeleński, Jan Białostocki and his young assistant Alek Pohl died. In 1991, his beloved mother Irena Vincenz died, and in 1994 his wife Sylvia, who was almost twenty years younger than him, died after a serious illness. In the last ten years of his life, he began a relationship with the Slavicist and publicist Joanna Skibińska (born in 1967), and married for the third time.

In 1988 – to honour the 100th birthday of his late father Stanisław Vincenz – he initiated a scientific conference on the author’s work that was unprecedented in its scope. It was held in La Combe de Lancey and at the universities in Wroclaw, Lublin (Lublin Catholic University, KUL) and Budapest. In later years, he participated in symposia devoted to the work of Stanisław Vincenz and organised by the KUL – both in Lublin and in Kryvorivnya in the Ukraine.

In 1991, he donated the manuscripts of Stanisław Vincenz to Ossoliński National Library in Wroclaw.

For Andrzej Vincenz, who had had to flee Poland to escape the Russians in 1940 and had had to live his later life in exile, the issues of Poles were his first priority. The milestones in his life led him from Poland via England and France to Germany. But wherever he was, he preserved the memory of his homeland and of the land of his childhood – the Hutsul Republic.

Andrzej Vincenz died in Heidelberg on 16 August 2014. He was buried in the Salwator cemetery in Kraków next to his parents’ grave.

 

Joanna de Vincenz, March 2018

 

 

 

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Media library
  • Andrzej Vincenz and Jan Białostock, 1925

    Andrzej Vincenz and Jan Białostock, 1925
  • Andrzej Vincenz, Portrait photograph, 1938

    Andrzej Vincenz, Portrait photograph, 1938
  • Andrzej Vincenz, Edinburgh, 1941

    Edinburgh, July 1941: I. Polish Armoured Division under General Maczkek. Andrzej Vincenz on the right.
  • Quackenbrück, July 1945, in front of the editorial office of "Dziennik Żołnierza"

    Quackenbrück, July 1945, in front of the editorial office of "Dziennik Żołnierza". Sitting from the right: (...) Nik, a driver from Warsaw, E. Goll, Waszelkowski, Filip (typesetter). From the left: An...
  • Andrzej Vincenz, Portrait photograph, 1946

    Andrzej Vincenz, Portrait photograph, 1946
  • Andrzej Vincenz, Portrait photograph, 1947

    Andrzej Vincenz, Portrait photograph, 1947
  • Andrzej Vincenz, La Combe de Lancey, 1951

    La Combe de Lancey, September 1951: Stanisław Vincenz, Andrzej Vincenz, Irena Vincenz and Czeslaw Milosz.
  • Andrzej and Irena Vincenz, 1986

    Andrzej and Irena Vincenz, 1986
  • Andrzej Vincenz, Chexbres, Switzerland, 1988

    Irena Vincenz, Andrzej Vincenz, Richard Aeschlimann, Józef Czapski and Czeslaw Milosz.
  • Andrzej Vincenz, Neapel, 1989

    Naples, 1989: On the left side Prof. Andrzej Vincenz, in the middle Prof. Ihor Sevcenko
  • Andrzej Vincenz, Lublin, 2001

    Andrzej Vincenz at the conference "Stanisław Vincenz - Humanist of the 20th century" in Lublin, 2001.
  • Andrzej Vincenz, Heidelberg, 2003

    Heidelberg, 2003: Prof. Andrzej Vincenz and Prof. Theodor Mackiw
  • Andrzej Vincenz, Heidelberg 2007

    Andrzej Vincenz, Heidelberg 2007
  • Andrzej Vincenz, La Combe 2007

    Andrzej Vincenz, La Combe 2007
  • Andrzej Vincenz, La Combe de Lancey, 2007

    La Combe de Lancey, 2007: Andrzej Vincenz and Paul Perroud.
  • Andrzej Vincenz, Paris 2008

    Andrzej Vincenz, Paris 2008
  • Andrzej Vincenz, Grenoble 2008

    Andrzej Vincenz, Grenoble 2008