ogelf�nger and Kazimierz Wajda who appeared together as the comic duo "Szczepko and To?ko" and were similar to Laurel and Hardy.
After World War II many of the Jewish artists and entertainers were either killed or fled and Polish artists had to leave for Poland as a result of the Yalta Conference.
Universities and academia
Lviv University is one of the oldest in Central Europe and was founded as a Society of Jesus (Jesuit) school in 1608. Its prestige greatly increased through the work of philosopher Kazimierz Twardowski (1866�1938) who was one of the founders of the Lw�w-Warsaw School of Logic. This school of thought set benchmarks for academic research and education in Poland. The Polish politician of the interbellum period Stanis?aw G??bi?ski had served as dean of the law department (1889�1890) and as the University rector (1908�1909). In 1901 the city was the seat of the Lw�w Scientific Society among whose members were major scientific figures. The most well-known were the mathematicians Stefan Banach, Juliusz Schauder and Stanis?aw Ulam who were founders of the Lw�w School of Mathematics turning Lviv in the 1930s into the "World Centre of Functional Analysis" and who's share in Lviv academia was substantial.
In 1852 in Dublany (eight kilometers from the outskirts of Lviv) the Agricultural Academy was opened and was one of the first Polish agricultural colleges. The Academy was merged with the Lviv Polytechnic in 1919. Another important college of the interbellum period was the Academy of Foreign Trade in Lw�w.
Mathematics
Lviv was the home of the Scottish Caf� where in the 1930s and the early 1940s Polish mathematicians from the Lw�w School of Mathematics met and spent their afternoons discussing mathematical problems. Stanis?aw Ulam who was later a participant in the Manhattan Project and the proposer of the Teller-Ulam design of thermonuclear weapons, Stefan Banach one of the founders of functional
