Wojciech Szweykowski

Wojciech Szweykowski (1773–1838) was a Piarist priest, a professor and the vice-chancellor of Warsaw University. Szweykowski acquired his basic teacher training in Łomża. In 1802-1804, he visited Berlin and other German cities and acquainted himself with their educational systems. Szweykowski was professor of Polish literature at the Warsaw Lyceum from 1812 and a member of the Warsaw Society of Friends of Learning from 1813. He was appointed Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Theology when the University of Warsaw first opened and was elected vice-chancellor in 1818. He was appointed adviser of the Faculty of Religious Denominations by the National Government during the November Uprising (1830). Szweykowski retired in 1833 but continued to conduct free classes at the seminary.