Adam Kersten (26 April 1930 in

Kutno Kutno is a city located in central Poland with 42,704 inhabitants (2021) and an area of . Situated in the Łódź Voivodeship since 1999, previously it was part of Płock Voivodeship (1975–1998) and it is now the capital of Kutno County. Dur ...

- 11 January 1983 in

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) was a Polish historian, expert on the Polish history in the 17th century. Member of the faculty at

Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (MCSU) ( pl, Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej w Lublinie, UMCS) was founded October 23, 1944 in Lublin. It is named in honour of Marie Curie-Sklodowska. Currently the number of students is almost 36,000. The ...

since 1955. From 1980 he was active in the

Solidarity ''Solidarity'' is an awareness of shared interests, objectives, standards, and sympathies creating a psychological sense of unity of groups or classes. It is based on class collaboration.''Merriam Webster'', http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictio ...

movement. Husband of

Krystyna Kersten Krystyna Kersten (penname, Jan Bujnowski; born May 25, 1931 in Poznań – July 10, 2008 in Warsaw) was a Polish historian and a professor at the Historical Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Fellow of Collegium Invisibile. Born in Pozna ...

. Posthumously he received the

Order of Polonia Restituta The Order of Polonia Restituta ( pl, Order Odrodzenia Polski, en, Order of Restored Poland) is a Polish state decoration, state Order (decoration), order established 4 February 1921. It is conferred on both military and civilians as well as on al ...

Works

* ''Opowieści o szwedzkim najeździe'' (1956) * ''Chłopi polscy w walce z najazdem szwedzkim 1655 - 1656'' (1958) * ''Z badań nad konfederacją tyszowiecką'' (1958) * ''Geneza nowej gigantomachii'' (1958) * ''Pierwszy opis obrony Jasnej Góry w 1655 r.'' (1959) * ''Stefan Czarniecki 1599-1665'' (1963) * ''Obrona Klasztoru w Jasnej Górze'' (1964) * ''Sienkiewicz – „Potop” – Historia'' (1966) * ''Historia dla klasy II liceum ogólnokształcacego'' (1968) * ''Na tropach Napierskiego. W kręgu mitów i faktów'' (1970) * ''Warszawa Kazimierowska 1648-1668: miasto, ludzie, polityka'' (1971) * ''Historia Szwecji'' (1973) * ''Szwedzi pod Jasną Górą 1655'' (1975) * ''Historia powszechna, 1648-1789'' (1978) * ''Historia powszechna, wiek XVII'' (1984) * ''Hieronim Radziejowski: studium władzy i opozycji'' (1988)

References

Adam Kersten page
on his memorial foundation
Biography
* Jerzy Jedlicki, ''Adam Kersten: Suwerenność historyka'', „Gazeta Wyborcza”, 13.01.2008
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. 1930 births 1983 deaths Polish dissidents 20th-century Polish historians Polish male non-fiction writers Recipients of the Order of Polonia Restituta Solidarity (Polish trade union) activists Historians of Poland University of Warsaw alumni {{Poland-historian-stub