Stefan Karol Jakobielski (11 August 1937 – 14 October 2024) was a Polish historian, archaeologist, philologist, epigraphist.
He took part in key works at the archaeological site in Faras – the discovery of the cathedral with wall paintings in the 1961–1962 season and during two subsequent expeditions: 1962–1963 and 1963–1964; he also participated in the removal and transfer of wall paintings and the documentation of discoveries,[2] presented now at the Faras Gallery at the National Museum in Warsaw.
[3][4] After the death of prof. Michałowski in 1981 he was appointed the head of this expedition on behalf of the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology University of Warsaw, a function he held until 2006.
The exhibition contained artifacts discovered at multiple sites and borrowed from the National Museum of Sudan in Khartoum.
[6] From 1972 to 1974 by invitation of the Egypt Exploration Society[3] Jakobielski participated in a British-American-Polish archaeological mission in Qasr Ibrim as archaeologist-epigraphist.
[5] Jakobielski was the author of numerous publications and editor of scientific journals, including Nubia, Études et Travaux, Nubielskica et Aethiopica and Bibliotheca nubica.