Jadwiga Czachowska (30 October 1922 â 10 February 2013) was a literary historian, bibliographer and editor.
Daughter of Antoni Nowak-Przygodzki and the physician Zofia Gumowska. She attended the Queen Jadwiga Grammar and Secondary School No. XIII in Lviv. She was a member of the Polish Scouting Association (ZHP).
During the Nazi occupation she was in Lviv and was a liaison at the National Military Organization. She was imprisoned by the Gestapo in 1944. In 1948 she graduated with a master's degree in Polish philology from the Jagiellonian University. From 1949 she was a researcher at Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IBL PAN). She was the director of the Department of Contemporary Literature Documentation of the IBL PAN between 1966 and 1993. From 1991 she was a professor. From 1996 she was a member of Warsaw Scientific Society. In 1986 she supervised doctoral dissertation of .
She wrote about Gabriela Zapolska.