Professor Leszek Dzięgiel – a scholar despite everything

The article is a reminiscent text devoted to the memory of Professor Leszek Dzięgiel, who deceased in 2005. He was an anthropologist, lecturer and a long-term head of the Ethnology Institute of the Jagiellonian University, an active member of the Polish Ethnological Society, a member of the Committee on Ethnological Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Ethnographic Commission of the Cracow Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The author of the article, a student and doctorate of the Professor, tried to present the extensive influence that the political reality of the Polish People’s Republic had on the possibility of scholar and career development of many intellectuals, also shaping the career of the prominent Polish scholar