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Eugeniusz Romer

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Portrait of Eugeniusz Romer
It hangs above the desk of the director of the Institute of Geography and Regional Development at the University of Wroclaw. It shows the eminent geographer and cartographer depicted against the background of a planiglobium map.

Romer, (1871-1954) was the founder of modern Polish cartography and co-founder of the Ksiaznica-Atlas publishing house in Lwow, one of the most important Polish publishing houses in the interwar period. It was a house publishing textbooks and teaching aids for teachers and students, cartographic publications, children’s and young adult literature, and encyclopaedias. After the Second World War, the publishing house resumed its activities in Wroctaw, where many atlases of Poland and the world were published under Romer’s editorship.

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