Włodzimierz Antoniewicz (July 15, 1893 – May 20, 1973) was a Polish archaeologist of Armenian descent, rector of the University of Warsaw, and a member of the PAN.

Włodzimierz Antoniewicz born on July 15, 1893, in Sambir, the son of the Polish Armenian Karol[2] (postal controller, participant in the January Uprising) and Wanda Kurowska[2] (painter and social activist).

He defended his doctoral thesis at the Jagiellonian University in 1918 under the supervision of Piotr Ignacy Bieńkowski (The Significance of Amber in the Prehistory of Europe).

Antoniewicz briefly worked as an associate professor of prehistoric archaeology at the University of Poznań, where he also obtained his habilitation in 1920.

[6] Additionally, he collaborated with the Institute of the History of Material Culture of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Religious Denominations and Public Education.

He was listed among the 180 editors of the five-volume Ilustrowana encyklopedia Trzaski, Everta i Michalskiego, where he wrote entries on archaeological topics.