Henryk Hudzik – vita et opera

This article contains a short vita of Henryk Hudzik's as well as a non-exhaustive survey of his contribution to various areas of analysis. We focus on the theory of Orlicz−Sobolev spaces and the geometry of Banach spaces. We highlight criteria for some important geometric properties related to the metric fixed point theory in some classes of Banach lattices, including Orlicz and Orlicz−Lorentz spaces, but we do not forget Henryk Hudzik's contribution to nonlinear integral equations and partial differential equations.