Karol Maleczyński (1897–1968) was a
Polish
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historian.
[Samp, p. 108.]
Karol Maleczyński was born October 28, 1897, in
Grębowo
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near
Tarnobrzeg.
[Heck, p. 481.] He was the son of Stefan and Józefina.
[ Maleczyński attended to '']gimnazjum
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'' in Stanisławów and Lwów
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from 1907 to 1915.[ He enrolled at the University in Lwów, but was enlisted to the Austrian Army.][ Later he served in the Polish Army.][ After demobilisation, he again enrolled at the University in Lwów, where he studied history. He graduated in March 1924.][
Maleczyński gained his PhD at the ]Jan Kazimierz University
The University of Lviv ( uk, Львівський університет, Lvivskyi universytet; pl, Uniwersytet Lwowski; german: Universität Lemberg, briefly known as the ''Theresianum'' in the early 19th century), presently the Ivan Franko Na ...
in Lwów
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in 1924.[ He completed his ]habilitation
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at the same university in 1929[ and became a professor in 1939.][ After the Second World War Maleczyński worked at the University of Wrocław.][
Karol Maleczyński was the author of around 250 publications.][ He was also an editor of the '']Gesta principum Polonorum
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''.[Samp, p. 110.]
Footnotes
References
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Further reading
*Przemysław Wiszewski, Karol Maleczyński (1897-1968), in Mediewiści, ed. Jerzy Strzelczyk
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Works
* ''Po tamtej stronie Odry. Dzieje i upadek Słowian połabskich'', Warszawa 1968,
* ''Drzewianie poła ...
, Poznań 2011.
External links
Biographical entry
in the Jagiellonian Library Database
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20th-century Polish historians
Polish male non-fiction writers
1897 births
1968 deaths
Recipients of the Medal of the 10th Anniversary of the People's Republic of Poland