Kazimierz Kozica

Kazimierz Kozica (1965 – 2019) was a Polish historian of cartography, map expert (especially the old maps of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Silesia), teacher, curator. President of the Friends of the Royal Castle in Warsaw Association Career Graduated in Wrocław in 1990 with a master's thesis on Population distribution and population density of the Wrocław Province 1: 200,000 [2 maps] written under the supervision of Władysław Pawlak., after which began teaching at the Department of Cartography of the Geographical Institute at the University of Wrocław, initially as an assistant, then as an adjunkt. In 1998 he completed his D.Phil. degree with a thesis 'The Existence of Milicz Fish-ponds and the Changings of Their Costal Line Based on Big-scale Old and Present-day Maps' at the Faculty of Natural Sciences From 1999 to 2009 professionally associated with the Polish collector based in Bitburg, Tomasz Niewodniczański, whose collections he described, cataloged and helped to organize exhibitions. Part of Niewodniczański's cartographic collection, covering the largest collection of old maps of Poland, was deposited at the Royal Castle Museum in Warsaw. Kazimierz Kozica became their curator in 2009. He was the author of many publications on the history of cartography, including co-authoring catalogues of historical and cartographic exhibitions from the collection of Tomasz Niewodniczański: Imago Poloniae (Berlin, Warsaw 2002, Krakow, Wrocław 2003, Darmstadt 2004), Imago Lithuaniae (Vilnius 2002). The third great exhibition in the Imago... series was to be the Imago Ukrainae exhibition devoted to ancient maps of lands which are now part of today's Ukraine and the iconography of selected cities in the former eastern borderland of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (about 660 historical maps).