Juliusz Bardach (3 November 1914, in
Odessa
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– 26 January 2010, in
Warsaw
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) was a
Polish
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* Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe
* Polish language
* Poles
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legal historian. Professor of the
University of Warsaw
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, member of the
Polish Academy of Sciences
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. He specialized in the history of governance and law of Lithuania and Poland.
Military attaché
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in Moscow (1945–1947). He received his Ph.D. from the
Jagiellonian University
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in 1948. He received
Doctor honoris causa
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from the
University of Łódź
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(1995),
University of Warsaw
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(1996) and the
University of Vilnius
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(1997). Bardach was a recipient of the Grand Cross of the
Order of Polonia Restituta
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(2002) and the Officer's Cross of the Lithuanian
Order of Merit
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(2006).
He is the older brother of surgeon and
Gulag
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survivor
Janusz Bardach
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, author of ''
Man Is Wolf to Man
''Man Is Wolf to Man'' (1998; ) from the Latin Homo homini lupus is a memoir by Janusz Bardach, primarily surrounding the years during World War II. It was co-written with Kathleen Gleeson. The book tells the story of Bardach's transformation from ...
''.
Selected works
* ''Historia państwa i prawa Polski do połowy XV wieku'' (1957)
* ''Historia państwa i prawa polskiego'' (1976, with
Bogusław Leśnodorski and Michał Pietrzak, )
* ''Themis a Clio czyli Prawo a historia'' (2001, )
* ''Dzieje Sejmu Polskiego'' (1993, )
* ''O dawnej i niedawnej Litwie'' (1988, )
* ''Historia ustroju i prawa polskiego'' (1993, )
* ''O Rzeczpospolitą Obojga Narodów'' (1998, )
* ''Statuty litewskie a prawo rzymskie'' (1999, )
* ''W obiektywie nauki i w lustrze pamięci (o uczonych, pisarzach i politykach XIX i XX wieku)'' (2004, )
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1914 births
2010 deaths
20th-century Polish historians
Polish male non-fiction writers
Writers from Odesa
Lawyers from Warsaw
Jewish historians
Grand Crosses of the Order of Polonia Restituta
Officer's Crosses of the Order for Merits to Lithuania
Odesa Jews
Jagiellonian University alumni
Academic staff of the University of Warsaw
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