University professor at the Institute of Germanic and Nordic Studies of the Jagiellonian University. He studied Germanic philology at the Jagiellonian University and the Friedrich-Alexander-University in Erlangen and Nuremberg. He has received scholarships from the DAAD, the Foundation for Polish Science and the University in Würzburg. In 2006 he defended his dissertation ”Spott und Tadel. Lessings rhetorische Strategien im antiquarischen Streit” (Frankfurt a. M. et al. 2007), and in 2023 he obtained his habilitation from the Jagiellonian University on the basis of the monograph ”Selbstinszenierung und Gedächtnisbildung. Rosa Maria Assing in Briefen und Lebenszeugnissen aus der Sammlung Varnhagen. Edition und Kommentar” (Berlin et al. 2021–22). He led the NCN Opus project ”Legacy and Memory. Strategies for the Transmission and Preservation of Culture in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century on the Example of the Archive of Rosa Maria and David Assing in the Varnhagen Collection in Kraków”. From 2020 to 2024 he participated in the NCN/DFG project ”Female Writers in the Varnhagen Collection – Letters, Works, Relations”.

He has been the co-curator of three exhibitions on German-language manuscript holdings at the Jagiellonian Library. In his scholarly work, he is concerned with German-language literature of the 18th and 19th centuries and specialises in the study of German manuscripts from this period. His fields of interest also include Polish-German literary transfer and the theory and practice of translation.