# Adam Kirkor

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{{Short description|Polish publisher, journalist}}
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| name          = Adam Honory Kirkor
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| birth_date    = 21 January 1818
| birth_place   = {{ill|Slivino|ru|Сливино (Смоленская область)}}, [Russian Empire](/source/Russian_Empire)
| death_date    = 23 November 1886
| death_place   = [Kraków](/source/Krak%C3%B3w), [Grand Duchy of Kraków](/source/Grand_Duchy_of_Krak%C3%B3w)
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| occupation    = Publisher, journalist, archaeologist 
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'''Adam Honory Kirkor''' (21 January 1818 – 23 November 1886) was a [Polish](/source/Polish_people) publisher, journalist and archeologist.

== Biography ==
Kirkor was born in {{ill|Slivino|ru|Сливино (Смоленская область)}} on 21 January 1818, finishing school in [Mogilev](/source/Mogilev). From 1834 to 1866, he worked in [Vilnius](/source/Vilnius), later in [Saint Petersburg](/source/Saint_Petersburg) and [Kraków](/source/Krak%C3%B3w). He was a member of the [Vilnius Archaeological Commission](/source/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](/source/Russian_Imperial_Archaeological_Society) in 1856, taking part in the writing of ''[Orgelbrand's Universal Encyclopedia](/source/Orgelbrand's_Universal_Encyclopedia_(1859))''. 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](/source/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](/source/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.

== See also ==
* [''Orgelbrand's Universal Encyclopedia'' (1859)](/source/Orgelbrand's_Universal_Encyclopedia_(1859))

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