An obituary of Sławomir Wyszomirski, a distinguished professor of Classics at the Copernicus University in Toruń. His publications on Greek, Roman, and Neo-Latin literature include editions of Neo- -Latin works by Polish authors, such as the Greek and Latin poems of Jeremiasz Wojnowski (16th century), who was notorious for his claim of having discovered Ovid’s tomb in south-eastern Poland (now Ukraine).