Adam Kirkor

{{Short description|Polish publisher, journalist}} {{use dmy dates|date=June 2021}} {{Infobox person | name = Adam Honory Kirkor | image = 220px | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 21 January 1818 | birth_place = {{ill|Slivino|ru|Сливино (Смоленская область)}}, Russian Empire | death_date = 23 November 1886 | death_place = Kraków, Grand Duchy of Kraków | other_names = | occupation = Publisher, journalist, archaeologist | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }} '''Adam Honory Kirkor''' (21 January 1818 – 23 November 1886) was a Polish publisher, journalist and archeologist.

== Biography == Kirkor was born in {{ill|Slivino|ru|Сливино (Смоленская область)}} on 21 January 1818, finishing school in Mogilev. From 1834 to 1866, he worked in Vilnius, later in Saint Petersburg and Kraków. He was a member of the Vilnius Archaeological Commission from 1855. In 1859, Kirkor bought a printing house from {{ill|Christian Theophilus Glücksberg|pl|Krystian Teofil Glücksberg}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://encyklopedia.pwn.pl/haslo/Gluecksberg-Krystian-Teofil;3905943.html |title=Glücksberg Krystian Teofil |date= |website= |publisher= |access-date= |quote=}}</ref> and started printing books and periodicals in Polish, Lithuanian and Russian.

Kirkor became a member of the Russian Imperial Archaeological Society in 1856, taking part in the writing of ''Orgelbrand's Universal Encyclopedia''. His name is featured in the first volume of the encyclopedia.<ref>{{cite book|last=Orgelbrand|first=Samuel|title=Universal Encyclopedia|date=1859}}</ref> He joined the {{ill|Moscow Archeological Society|fr|Société impériale d'archéologie|ru|Московское археологическое общество|uk|Московське археологічне товариство|lt=Moscow Archaeological Society}} in 1864.<ref>{{cite book|last=Blombergowa|first=Maria|title=Polscy członkowie Cesarskiego Moskiewskiego Towarzystwa Archeologicznego (1864-1914)|language=Polish |date=1980|page=547}}</ref>

He was not financially successful and went bankrupt, eventually moving to Kraków. Kirkor helped transforming the Kraków Scientific Society into the Academy of Learning, to which he was appointed as member of in 1873. From 1875, he started participating in archaeological excavations near Kraków.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kirkor |first1=Adam |date=17 February 1876 |title=Poszukiwania zabytków pierwotnych w bliższych okolicach Krakowa |url=https://polona.pl/item/poszukiwania-zabytkow-pierwotnych-w-blizszych-okolicach-krakowa-czytano-na-posiedzeniu,Njc4NjI0NDI/2/#info:metadata |language=Polish |journal= |volume= |issue= |pages=1–2 |doi= |access-date=30 June 2021}}</ref>

Adam was married to Helena Kirkorowa until 1857 due to her leaving him for another man.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Noiński |first1=E. |date=2018 |title=Opiekunka dyktatora. Losy Heleny Kirkorowej (1828–1900) w Powstaniu Styczniowym i na zesłaniu syberyjskim. |url=https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/histspol/article/view/3378 |journal=Studia z Historii Społeczno-Gospodarczej XIX I XX Wieku |language=Polish |volume=17 |issue= |pages=77–90 |doi=10.18778/2080-8313.17.05 |access-date=30 June 2021 |doi-access=free|hdl=11089/25322 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> After the divorce, he married Maria Celestyna Boczkowska.

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