Kazimierz Piwarski (19 February 1903 – 21 July 1968) was a Polish
historian
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, professor of
Jagiellonian University
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in
Kraków
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since 1946 and
Poznań University
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in years 1953-1955, member of
Polish Academy of Skills
The Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences or Polish Academy of Learning ( pl, Polska Akademia Umiejętności), headquartered in Kraków and founded in 1872, is one of two institutions in contemporary Poland having the nature of an academy of scie ...
(Polska Akademia Umiejętności, PAU) since 1945, and member of
Polish Academy of Sciences
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(Polska Akademia Nauk, PAN) since 1958.
He researched in the history of the Polish provinces of
Pomerania
Pomerania ( pl, Pomorze; german: Pommern; Kashubian: ''Pòmòrskô''; sv, Pommern) is a historical region on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea in Central Europe, split between Poland and Germany. The western part of Pomerania belongs to ...
,
Silesia
Silesia (, also , ) is a historical region of Central Europe that lies mostly within Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany. Its area is approximately , and the population is estimated at around 8,000,000. Silesia is split ...
,
East Prussia
East Prussia ; german: Ostpreißen, label=Low Prussian; pl, Prusy Wschodnie; lt, Rytų Prūsija was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1773 to 1829 and again from 1878 (with the Kingdom itself being part of the German Empire from 187 ...
and also the universal history of the 18th and 20th centuries.
During World War II he was arrested by the Germans on 6 November 1940 in
Sonderaktion Krakau
''Sonderaktion Krakau'' was a German operation against professors and academics of the Jagiellonian University and other universities in German-occupied Kraków, Poland, at the beginning of World War II. It was carried out as part of the much bro ...
, and then imprisoned in
Sachsenhausen
Sachsenhausen () or Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg was a German Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany, used from 1936 until April 1945, shortly before the defeat of Nazi Germany in May later that year. It mainly held political prisoners ...
and
Dachau concentration camp
,
, commandant = List of commandants
, known for =
, location = Upper Bavaria, Southern Germany
, built by = Germany
, operated by = ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS)
, original use = Political prison
, construction ...
s until late 1941.
[Gwiazdomorski, Jan (in Polish). ''Wspomnienia z Sachsenhausen'' emoiries from Sachsenhausen Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1975. p.252]
Kazimierz Piwarski was the director of the
Western Institute
The Western Institute in Poznań (Polish: ''Instytut Zachodni'', German ''West-Institut'', French: ''L'Institut Occidental'') is a scientific research society focusing on the Western provinces of Poland - Kresy Zachodnie (including Greater Polan ...
(Instytut Zachodni) in
Poznań
Poznań () is a city on the River Warta in west-central Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business centre, and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John ...
in years 1956-1958.
Publications
* ''Dzieje Śląska w zarysie'' (Short History of Silesia)
* ''Dzieje polityczne Prus Wschodnich 1621-1772'', (1938, Political history of the East Prussia 1621-1772)
* ''Kuria rzymska a polski ruch narowodowowyzwoleńczy 1794-1863'', (1955, The Roman curia and the Polish national liberation movement 1794-1863)
References
1903 births
1968 deaths
Members of the Polish Academy of Learning
Academic staff of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
20th-century Polish historians
Polish male non-fiction writers
Academic staff of Jagiellonian University
Members of the Polish Academy of Sciences
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