Roman Loth (11 December 1931 – 30 November 2019) was a literary historian, editor, bibliographer, professor at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IBL PAN).
Biography The son of Wacław Loth and Janina . After the Warsaw Uprising he moved to Radom, where in 1949 he passed matura in the .
From 1949 to 1957 he was a member of the Union of Polish Youth. He graduated in Polish philology from the University of Warsaw in 1954. Also in 1954 he married Barbara Regulska. In 1970 he obtained a doctoral degree based on the work Kronika życia i twórczości Jana Kasprowicza (1860–1901) (Chronicle of the life and work of Jan Kasprowicz [1860–1901]) written under the supervision of Ewa Korzeniewska. In 1975 he obtained habilitation. From 1981 he was a member of the Scientific Council of IBL PAN; from 1987 to 2006 he was its vice-chairman.
Loth supervised the doctorate of Beata Dorosz. In 2004 he was chosen a member of the Warsaw Scientific Society. A Festschrift to him was published in 2011, edited by Beata Dorosz and Paweł Kądziela. Co-edited with Paweł Kądziela.
Works
Second, extended edition: 2012.
Accolades Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2008)
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