Leon Sternbach

Leon Sternbach (2 July 1864, in Drohobych – 20 February 1940, in Sachsenhausen concentration camp) was a Polish philologist and classicist, professor at Jagiellonian University, and member of Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. He initiated the study of ancient Byzantium within Poland. In 1939, two months after the German invasion of Poland, under Nazi occupation, Sternbach was arrested along with 184 other professors and staff of the Jagiellonian by the Gestapo during Sonderaktion Krakau. After being held in a Krakow Gestapo prison, he was sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where he was murdered.[1]

Portrait of Sternbach by Stanisław Wyspiański