On 2 July 2026, we bid farewell to Professor Wiesław Gądek, DSc, Eng. (PK), Chair of the Water Management Committee of the PAS Branch in Kraków.

Professor Gądek chaired the Committee from 2008, providing dynamic leadership and inspiring numerous initiatives supporting the development of water management. Owing to his extensive expertise, professional experience and commitment, he earned the respect and recognition of colleagues and the wider water management community.

He will be remembered as an outstanding specialist, a dedicated public servant and a kind and generous colleague whose work and personal example have become a lasting part of the history of our Branch.

From 1999 to 2006, he served as Vice-Chair of the History and Philosophy of Medicine Committee of the PAS Kraków Branch and was also a member of the Scientific Council of the Institute for the History of Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.

Between 1979 and 1982, he served on the Executive Board of the Polish Society for the History of Medicine. For many years, he was President of the Association of Graduates of Medical Faculties (SAWM) and Head of the Chair of the History of Medicine at the Jagiellonian University Medical College. Since 1985, he had been a member of the Société Internationale d’Histoire de la Médecine and the Association Européenne des Musées d’Histoire des Sciences Médicales.

From 2000 to 2007, he served as Editor-in-Chief of Archiwum Historii i Filozofii Medycyny (Archives of the History and Philosophy of Medicine). In 2005, the Kraków Medical Society awarded him the Marek Sych Medal, and in 2013 he received the Medicus Laurentius Medal. He was an honorary member of both the Kraków Medical Society and the Warsaw Medical Society.

On 24 February 2026, we bid farewell to Professor Józefa Kobylińska, DSc, a member of the Linguistics Committee of the PAS Branch in Kraków, a distinguished linguist and long-serving lecturer at the Pedagogical University of Kraków.

During her academic career, she served as Director of the Institute of Polish Philology (1971–1978) and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities (1987–1990). She was also a member of the Polish Linguistic Society, the Society of Friends of the Polish Language, and the Podhale Association, where she served on the Scientific Council during the 1980s. From 1965, she was affiliated with the Mszana Dolna Branch of the Polish Ethnological Society.

Professor Kobylińska was an outstanding researcher of the linguistic heritage of the Gorce region. Among her major scholarly achievements was the linguistic edition of the Village Records of Kasina Wielka, the oldest surviving written document from that area. She authored six books and approximately one hundred scholarly papers and articles published in leading academic journals and publishing houses.

On 10 February 2026, we bid farewell to Professor Jerzy Reichan, DSc, Honorary Member of the Linguistics Committee of the PAS Branch in Kraków and Chair of the Committee from 1999 to 2002.

A distinguished linguist and dialectologist, Professor Reichan devoted his entire academic career to the Workshop for the Atlas and Dictionary of Polish Dialects at the PAS Department of the Polish Language in Kraków, where he began working in 1953. The workshop later became part of the Institute of the Polish Language, PAS.

As a member of the editorial team of the Small Atlas of Polish Dialects, he prepared numerous dialect maps and, beginning with Volume XI, served as its editor. He also contributed extensively to the Dictionary of Polish Dialects and later became its Editor-in-Chief. For several decades, he headed the Department of Polish Dialectology at the Institute of the Polish Language, PAS.

His scholarly legacy includes monographs, dialect atlases, numerous publications on various aspects of dialectology, and many highly regarded academic reviews.

On 10 January 2026, we bid farewell to Professor Celina Juda, DSc (UJ), a member of the Slavic Studies Committee of the PAS Branch in Kraków.

Professor Juda was a highly respected Slavist and specialist in Bulgarian studies, renowned for her numerous publications on Bulgarian and Macedonian literature and culture. She was an inspiring scholar and a respected mentor to many generations of students and researchers in Slavic studies.

On 9 November 2025, we bid farewell to Professor Stanisław Gaca, DSc, Eng., a member of the Civil Engineering Committee of the PAS Branch in Kraków.

Professor Gaca was an outstanding engineer and a recognised expert in road engineering and road traffic safety. He was an active member of numerous professional bodies, including the Polish Road Congress and the Committee for Civil and Water Engineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and served as an expert on advisory panels of the General Directorate for National Roads and Motorways.

His research focused on vehicle traffic processes and their formal description, traffic simulation models for road intersections, methods for estimating intersection capacity, and road safety. He authored and co-authored more than 170 publications in Poland and abroad. His distinctions included the Gold Cross of Merit, the Gold Medal for Long Service, the Medal of the National Education Commission, the Medal of Merit of the Kraków University of Technology, and the University’s Gold and Honorary Badges.

On 2 November 2025, we bid farewell to Professor Leszek Bednarczuk, DSc, Honorary Member of the Linguistics Committee and the Oriental Studies Committee, and member of the Slavic Studies Committee of the PAS Branch in Kraków.

Professor Bednarczuk was an eminent linguist, Indo-Europeanist and Celtic scholar. He authored numerous multilingual publications, including several scholarly monographs as well as many articles and reviews. A scholar of exceptional erudition, he was equally admired for his modesty and his dedication to mentoring young researchers. He will be remembered as an outstanding scholar, an inspiring teacher and a valued colleague.

On 4 September 2025, we bid farewell to Professor Zbigniew Domosławski, DSc, a member of the History and Philosophy of Medicine Committee of the PAS Branch in Kraków.

Professor Domosławski was a distinguished specialist in internal medicine, cardiology and sports medicine, as well as a passionate historian of medicine. His lifelong interest in the history of medicine contributed significantly to the development of medical ethics, particularly with regard to the dignity of both patients and physicians. His scholarly achievements include more than 600 publications and nine books, among them valuable memoirs and historical reflections. He passed away at the age of 102.

On 16 August 2025, we bid farewell to Professor Andrzej Machowski, DSc, Eng., a member of the Civil Engineering Committee of the PAS Branch in Kraków.

Professor Machowski was a distinguished specialist in steel structures and structural reliability. He authored and co-authored numerous scientific publications and educated many generations of engineers through his academic work.

On 15 July 2025, we bid farewell to Professor Halszka Kontrymowicz-Ogińska, DSc (UJ), a member of the Psychology Committee of the PAS Branch in Kraków and, in previous years, also a member of the Ergonomics Committee.

Professor Kontrymowicz-Ogińska was an outstanding psychologist whose research focused primarily on the psychology of time and the application of psychology to product design, spatial design and visual communication. A central theme of her work was the study of hedonic experiences and the psychology of pleasure, fields to which she devoted great passion and commitment. She authored more than 80 publications, combining rigorous scholarship with a deep understanding of human needs in the contemporary world.

On 13 July 2025, we bid farewell to Professor Edmund Przegaliński, DSc, Full Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and an internationally recognised neuropsychopharmacologist.

Professor Przegaliński published nearly 200 original research papers, more than 50 review articles and monographs, and almost 200 conference communications. His research focused on the mechanisms underlying the antidepressant, anxiolytic and anticonvulsant effects of drugs, with particular emphasis on the roles of the noradrenergic and serotonergic systems, corticosteroid receptors, and excitatory amino acid receptors.

He served as Director of the Institute of Pharmacology of the Polish Academy of Sciences from 1993 to 2007. In 2006, he was awarded the honorary doctorate of the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice. His distinctions included the Gold Cross of Merit (1984), the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1991), and the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2002).

On 10 July 2025, we bid farewell to Professor Maria Strycharska-Brzezina, DSc, a member of the Linguistics Committee of the PAS Branch in Kraków.

Professor Strycharska-Brzezina was an eminent linguist and Polish philologist, widely recognised for her research on the history of the Polish language, language contact, sociolinguistics and sociostylistics. She was a member of numerous Polish and international scholarly societies, including the Polish Linguistic Society, the East European Commission of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Sociolinguistics Commission of the International Congress of Slavists.

She authored more than one hundred scholarly publications, including the influential monograph series Minority Languages in Literary and Folklore Texts, which remains an important contribution to the study of language and cultural heritage.