Antoni Mączak (30 March 1928, in

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– 6 March 2003, in Warsaw) was a Polish historian specializing in the economic, political and social history of Poland and history of Europe.

Biography

Antoni Maczak was born in

in 1928 in a family with scientific and pedagogical traditions. His father was an academic teacher in Lviv and a high school principal. During the Second World War he fought in the Gray Ranks paramilitary Boy Scout units of the Polish resistance against the Nazis, and in the ranks of Home Army. He took part in the Warsaw Uprising of August–October 1944. Captured by the Nazis, he remained a prisoner until Germany surrendered in 1945. A student of Marian Małowist, in the first decades of his scientific activity he devoted himself to the study of economic history at the University of Warsaw. His doctoral dissertation concerned the cloth industry in Wielkopolska in the 17th century, and his thesis concerned the peasant economy in Żuławy Malborskie. He was a younger friend of the "princes" of Polish history: Aleksander Gieysztor,

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. He advanced his scientific career with the University of Warsaw, although he also graduated from Cambridge University and lectured in the USA and Canada. From 1981 to 1987 he was director of the History Institute of the University of Warsaw and was appointed professor there. He is a Fellow of the

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, a Corresponding Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He has lectured at many academic centres across the world, including at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, University of Notre Dame, McGill University.

Works

Antoni Maczak has written much about economic history of Poland and on comparative history of Poland and Europe. He also wrote on the systems of authority in Europe, especially between the 15th and 18th centuries, and on the

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in history. His 1980s book ''Governing and governed'' ''(Rządzący i Rządzeni)'' was considered one of the most important historical texts in contemporary Poland, breaking with the past

Marxist Marxism is a Left-wing politics, left-wing to Far-left politics, far-left method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a Materialism, materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to understand S ...

look on history that until than dominated in historiography in the

People's Republic of Poland The Polish People's Republic ( pl, Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa, PRL) was a country in Central Europe that existed from 1947 to 1989 as the predecessor of the modern Republic of Poland. With a population of approximately 37.9 million nea ...

. In the English speaking world he is best known for his ''Travel in Early Modern Europe'' ''(Życie codzienne w podróżach po Europie XVI–XVII wieku)'' (by Antoni Maczak and Ursula Phillips).

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(in Polish) 1928 births 2003 deaths 20th-century Polish historians Polish male non-fiction writers Polish resistance members of World War II Fellows of Collegium Invisibile Historians of Poland Polish United Workers' Party members University of Warsaw alumni Academic staff of the University of Warsaw Writers from Lviv Child soldiers in World War II {{Scout-bio-stub

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