Władysław Zamoyski and his life’s work – Fundacja Zakłady Kórnickie

Abstract

The Foundation Zakłady Kórnickie was established by virtue of a Sejm Act of
1925 thanks to a donation from Władysław Zamoyski and his mother Jadwiga
Zamoyska, née Działyńska, who gave all their real estate and movable property
located in Wielkopolska and Małopolska to the Polish Nation. After the war, the
Foundation was dissolved in 1952, and all its assets were formally assigned to the
Polish Academy of Sciences, which had been established a year earlier and had
similar statutory goals. This fact became the basis for intensive efforts in the late
1990s to reconstitute the Foundation, which was finally recreated in 2001. Since
then, the Foundation has been successfully managing agricultural estates covering
an area of 4,200 hectares located in Greater Poland, supporting talented
students and undertaking numerous educational, cultural and publishing initiatives.