Dr Henryk Antoni Filipowicz-Dubowik (1930-2015)

Abstrakt

Henryk Filipowicz-Dubowik, PhD, Vilnius and Bydgoszcz resident, librarianship and expert and literature specialist. He was born in Vilnius on February 23, 1930. Displaced with his family in 1946, he took up residence in Bydgoszcz. Inthe years 1947-1951, he studied Polish philology at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. The career of Henryk Dubowik was connected with librarianship. In 1969, he became a qualified librarian and the director of the Main Library of the Teacher Training College, renamed in 1974 as Pedagogical College, where he stayed until retirement in 1996. He transformed the school’s little library into a national library. Henryk Filipowicz-Dubowik was both the library’s director and an academic teacher. As an adjunct assistant professor he organized in 1974 the Department of Librarianship and Scientific Information of the Pedagogical College in Bydgoszcz, which he managed until 1981. For over 40 years he was also involved in teaching secondary school librarians. He published a few dozen articles in the scope of librarianship. His scientific interests included literary studies. He was granted his doctor of liberal arts degree in 1969 based on his thesis Surrealism in contemporary Polish literature, supervised by Professor Artur Hutnikiewicz. Also in this field he published scores of articles in collective works and in magazines. Involved in scientific, cultural and artistic life of Bydgoszcz, he gave many lectures on Polish and foreign literature, contemporary painting, library construction, and functioning of libraries in foreign countries. He was active, among others, in The Friends of Bydgoszcz Association. For many years he was a member of the editorial board of the Bydgoszcz Chronicle.