The article is devoted to the person and scholarly work of a Polish lawyer, Prof. Henryk Trammer (1909–1973). He was an expert in civil proceedings, private international law and international economic arbitration, professor at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, University of Warsaw, Warsaw School of Economics. He was a member of the College of Arbitrators of Polish Chamber of Foreign Trade, Arbitration Court for Sea and Inland Navigation in Gdynia, and Special Commission for European Arbitration of the UN Economic Commission.