Sir Peter Mansfield
Denomination: Roman Catholic
Józef Andrzej Gierowski
Józef Andrzej Gierowski, Polish historian, educator. Recipient Alfred Jurzykowski Foundation award 1993. Secretary, Polish-German Commission Historians, 1957-1963; member Polish Parliament, 1985-1989. Member Wroclawskie Towarzystwo Naukowe (vice president 1963-1965), Polskie Towarzystwo Historyczne, Polska Akademia Umiejetnosci.
Background
Gierowski, Józef Andrzej was born on March 19, 1922 in Czestochowa, Poland. Son of Jozef and Stefania (Wasilewska) Gierowski.
Education
Career
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Assistant University Wroclaw, 1946-1954, professor, 1954-1965, prorector, 1958-1961, dean historico-philosophical faculty, 1964-1965. Professor Institute History Polish Academy of Sciences, 1953-1968. Professor modern history Jagellonian University, since 1965.
Rector, 1981-1987, director Center for Research on History and Culture of Polish Jews, 1986-1999.
Works
- The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the XVIIIth Century: From Anarchy to Well-Organised State (Rozprawy Wydzialu Historyczno-Filozoficznego)
- The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - also called the Commonwealth of Both Nations, Poland-Lithuania, the Commonwealth, or, pars pro toto, simply Poland - was at first a dynastic (till 1569) and then a federal multiethnic and multireligious union of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, lasting from 1386 to 1795.
- Historia polityczna Polski 1944-1991 (Polska wersja jezykowa)
- JAK DZIALAL SYSTEM, W KTORYM ZYLISMY 'Historia polityczna Polski 1944-1991', napisana przez wybitnego historyka Andrzeja Leona Sowe, jest pierwsza tak dokladna praca na temat powojennej historii politycznej Polski.
- Historia Polski 1795-1918 (Polska wersja jezykowa)
- Calosciowy obraz dziewietnastowiecznej Polski, jej dziejów, kultury, obyczaju.
