Marceli Kosman (born 8 May 1940 in
Izbica Kujawska
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Archaeology
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Polish
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historian. Professor of the
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
The Adam Mickiewicz University ( pl, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu; Latin: ''Universitas Studiorum Mickiewicziana Posnaniensis'') is a research university in Poznań, Poland.
It traces its origins to 1611, when under the Royal Ch ...
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He finished secondary school in 1957. Then he studied at the university in Poznań.
He gained MA in history in 1962 and PhD in 1966.
[ The title of Kosman's doctoral thesis was ''Dokumenty i kancelaria wielkiego księcia Witolda''.][ His supervisor was ]Henryk Łowmiański
Henryk Łowmiański (August 22, 1898 near Ukmergė - September 4, 1984 in Poznań) was a Polish historian and academic who was an authority on the early history of the Slavic and Baltic people. A researcher of the ancient history of Poland, Lithu ...
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From 1961 to 1968 he was teacher in the secondary school (''liceum'') in Izbica Kujawska.][ In 1971 he passed his habilitation.][
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Selected works
* ''Na tropach bohaterów "Trylogii"'' (1966)
* ''Wielki książę Witold'' (1967)
* ''Władysław Jagiełło'' (1968)
* ''Królowa Bona'' (1971)
* ''Zmierzch Perunka, czyli ostatni poganie nad Bałtykiem'' (1981)
* ''Orzeł i Pogoń. Z dziejów polsko-litewskich XIV-XX w.'' (1992)
* ''Od chrztu do chrystianizacji. Polska - Ruś - Litwa'' (1992)
* ''Na tropach bohaterów "Krzyżaków"'' (1995)
* ''Na tropach bohaterów "Quo vadis"'' (1998)
* ''Wojciech Jaruzelski wobec wyzwań swoich czasów. O kulturze politycznej w Polsce przełomu tysiącleci'' (2003)
* ''Dějiny Polska'' (2011)
Footnotes
References
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1940 births
Academic staff of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
20th-century Polish historians
Polish male non-fiction writers
Living people
21st-century Polish historians
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