He was born on 23 January 1887 in
Lviv to a Ukrainian family. A pupil of the Polish archaeologist
Karol Hadaczek. Before
World War I, he was a long-time editor of the
Kurier Lwowski. In 1907 he became a member of the
Shevchenko Scientific Society. He was the author of many works on prehistory and art history, including
Typy etniczne i kulturalne w prehistorji Galicji wschodniej (1911),
Człowiek przedhistoryczny (
Warsaw, 1914), and an extremely important and interesting work for Polish archaeology,
Zabytki przedhistoryczne Galicji wschodniej (1918), compiling all the excavations in Eastern Lesser Poland known up to 1918. He published another monograph entitled
Kultura przedhistoryczna Podola galicyjskiego (1914) in 1919 in excerpts in
Przewodnik Naukowy i Literacki (Guide was a monthly supplement to Gazeta Lwowska). In 1920, Janusz took up the post of conservator of pre-historic monuments of the Lviv district, which he held for several years. In the same year, he began publishing a monthly magazine "Wiadomości Konserwatorskie" dedicated to art and cultural monuments, which, however, was disbanded due to low interest. He also took a hobbyist interest in the history of
Armenians in Poland. ==Death and legacy==