Professor Bohdan Stefanowski Rector of Lodz University of Technology between 1945 and 1948
Professor Bohdan Stefanowski was born in Lublin on 17 June 1883. He graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Lviv Polytechnic National University in 1904, where he received his doctoral and post-doctoral degrees. He was appointed associate professor in 1914.
In 1918 he moved to Warsaw, where he became head of the Technical Thermodynamics Department and Machine Laboratory at Warsaw University of Technology. In 1945 Professor Bohdan Stefanowski was appointed “proxy of the Ministry of Education for the organisation of Lodz University of Technology in Lodz with the rights vested in the Rector, the Senate and the university faculty councils.” He arrived in Lodz as early as on 8 May, beginning his three-year period of intense, almost titanic work at the creation of Lodz University of Technology with its three Faculties, including the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and the Faculty of Chemistry as well as the Textile Engineering Unit.
On 3 October 1948 during the inauguration of the new academic year, Lodz University of Technology bade farewell to its founder and first rector as he returned to Warsaw University of Technology.