Stanisław Zahradnik (26 April 1932 – 5 November 2023) was a
Polish Czech historian. He specialised in the history of
Cieszyn Silesia
Cieszyn Silesia, Těšín Silesia or Teschen Silesia ( pl, Śląsk Cieszyński ; cs, Těšínské Slezsko or ; german: Teschener Schlesien or ) is a historical region in south-eastern Silesia, centered on the towns of Cieszyn and Český Tě ...
and the region of
Trans-Olza
Trans-Olza ( pl, Zaolzie, ; cs, Záolží, ''Záolší''; german: Olsa-Gebiet; Cieszyn Silesian dialect, Cieszyn Silesian: ''Zaolzi''), also known as Trans-Olza Silesia (Polish language, Polish: ''Śląsk Zaolziański''), is a territory in the ...
.
Biography
Zahradnik was born on 26 April 1932 in
Kojkovice
(Polish: ) is a village in Frýdek-Místek District, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic, on the border with Poland. It was a separate municipality but became administratively a part of Třinec (Trzyniec) in 1960. It lies in the historical r ...
. He graduated from the
Juliusz Słowacki Polish Gymnasium in
Český Těšín
Český Těšín (; pl, Czeski Cieszyn ; german: Tschechisch-Teschen) is a town in the Karviná District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 24,000 inhabitants.
Český Těšín lies on the west bank of the Olza r ...
in 1951. Two years later he graduated from the Faculty of History at the
Charles University
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in Prague. In 1968 he earned his doctorate at the same university. Afterwards he moved back to his native
Třinec
Třinec (; pl, Trzyniec ; german: Trzynietz) is a city in Frýdek-Místek District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 34,000 inhabitants and is the least populated statutory city in the country.
The city is an ...
where he was employed as the head of the archive of the
Třinec Iron and Steel Works
Třinec Iron and Steel Works (TŽ) ( cs, Třinecké železárny, pl, Huta trzyniecka) is a producer of long rolled steel products in Třinec, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic. TŽ produces over a third of all steel produced in the Cze ...
until 1992, when he retired. Zahradnik died on 5 November 2023, at the age of 91.
Books
* ''Třinecké železárny: období báňské a hutní společnosti: 1906–1938'' (1969)
* ''Zaolziańskie ofiary okupacji hitlerowskiej'' (1988)
* ''Czasopiśmiennictwo w języku polskim na terenach Czechosłowacji w latach 1848–1938'' (1989)
* ''Struktura narodowościowa Zaolzia na podstawie spisów ludności: 1880–1991'' (1991)
* ''Korzenie Zaolzia'' (1992, with Marek Ryczkowski)
* ''Polacy na Zaolziu w historii, statystyce i dokumentach'' (1995)
* ''Trzyniec. Kompendium wiedzy o mieście i hucie'' (2017)
References
External links
V Třinci ocenili badatele i astronoma
1932 births
2023 deaths
Writers from Třinec
Polish people from Trans-Olza
20th-century Czech historians
20th-century Polish historians
Charles University alumni
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