Stanisław Kulczyński

Stanisław Leon Kulczyński (9 May 1895 – 12 July 1975) was a Polish botanist and politician.

Professor of Lwów University (in the Second Polish Republic, its rector from 1936).

He resigned his position at the university in 1938 in protest of the institution of ghetto benches, writing to the Minister of Education that "if one destroys a power plant, it is dark at once, but if one destroys the Universities, it is dark fifty years hence."

Member of the Polish Secret State, he took part in underground education in Poland during World War II.

He joined the Stronnictwo Demokratyczne party, was elected to Sejm and was a member of several governmental commissions.