Profesor Stanisław Burkot (1932–2019)

• Published in: Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Historicolitteraria (Online) no. 19; pp. 327 - 329
• Main Author: Budrewicz, Tadeusz
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Polish
• Published: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie 2019; University of the National Education Commission in Krakow
• Subjects: Obituary; Sociology of Literature; Theory of Literature; In memoriam; Profesor Stanisław Burkot; obituary
• ISSN: 2081-1853; 2300-5831

Stanisław Burkot was born on October 4, 1932 in Turza, Rzepiennik Strzyżowski commune, Gorlice poviat. He was the son of Antoni and Anna née Frysztak. My parents owned a farm with an area of 4.95 hectares. He graduated from primary school in Więcwice during the occupation, and continued his education in Gorlice, where he passed his high school leaving examination in 1950. In the same year, he began studying Polish at the Pedagogical University of Krakow. He graduated in 1953 and from 1 September he started working at his alma mater as an assistant at the Faculty of Philology and History. He completed his master's studies on an individual basis, completing them as an external student (June 23, 1955). He wrote his master's thesis, written under the supervision of Wincenty Danek, on the topic of the January Uprising in the novels of Józef Ignacy Kraszewski. He began his doctoral studies in 1955 at the Institute of Literary Research. Under the supervision of Kazimierz Wyka, he prepared a doctoral thesis on: Contemporary novels by Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (after 1863), which was defended on April 24, 1960. He obtained his habilitation, based on the monograph Disputes about the novel in Polish literary criticism of the 19th century (1968), in March 1968 at his alma mater at the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts. He received the title of professor of humanities on October 29, 1977.