10 Facts About Ludwik Krzywicki

Ludwik Joachim Franciszek Krzywicki was a Polish Marxist anthropologist, economist, and sociologist.

Ludwik Krzywicki then went abroad, first to Leipzig, Germany, then to Zurich, Switzerland, and finally in 1885 to Paris, France, where most of the Polish Socialist emigres in Europe lived.

Ludwik Krzywicki was one of the first scholars to research Lithuanian hill forts.

Ludwik Krzywicki donated a large part of his findings to the Culture Museum in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1939.

Ludwik Krzywicki returned to Congress Poland in 1893 and continued his political activity.

Ludwik Krzywicki was arrested many times, notably when he took part in the Revolution of 1905.

Ludwik Krzywicki finished a doctorate in Lwow with an ethnographic dissertation.

Ludwik Krzywicki was one of the translators of Karl Marx's Das Kapital into Polish.

Ludwik Krzywicki served as vice-director of the Central Statistical Office, taught at the University of Warsaw and other institutions of higher education, and directed the Socio-Economic Institute.

Ludwik Krzywicki's working conditions worsened and he died of heart disease in 1941.