The University of Warsaw ( pl, Uniwersytet Warszawski, la, Universitas Varsoviensis) is a

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Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is official ...

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is divided into Voivodeships of Poland, sixteen voivodeships and is the fifth most populous member state of the European Union (EU), with over 38 mill ...

. Established in 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country offering 37 different fields of study as well as 100 specializations in

humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at th ...

, technical, and the natural sciences. The University of Warsaw consists of 126 buildings and educational complexes with over 18 faculties:

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, chemistry,

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and political science, philosophy and

sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of empirical investigation and ...

physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which rel ...

geography Geography (from Greek: , ''geographia''. Combination of Greek words ‘Geo’ (The Earth) and ‘Graphien’ (to describe), literally "earth description") is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, a ...

and regional studies,

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history History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the History of writing#Inventions of writing, invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbr ...

, applied

linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Lingu ...

and

philology Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as ...

Polish language Polish (Polish: ''język polski'', , ''polszczyzna'' or simply ''polski'', ) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic group written in the Latin script. It is spoken primarily in Poland and serves as the native language of the Poles. In add ...

pedagogy Pedagogy (), most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political and psychological development of learners. Pedagogy, taken ...

economics Economics () is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analy ...

, law and

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psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries betwe ...

, applied

social sciences Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of society, societies and the Social relation, relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the o ...

, management and mathematics,

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and

mechanics Mechanics (from Ancient Greek: μηχανική, ''mēkhanikḗ'', "of machines") is the area of mathematics and physics concerned with the relationships between force, matter, and motion among physical objects. Forces applied to objects ...

. The University of Warsaw is one of the top Polish universities. It was ranked by '' Perspektywy'' magazine as best Polish university in 2010, 2011, 2014, and 2016. International rankings such as ARWU and University Web Ranking ranked the university as the best Polish higher level institution in 2012.

History

Beginnings under Alexander I (1816–1918)

In 1795, the partitions of Poland left

with access only to the Academy of Vilnius when the oldest and most influential Polish academic center, the Jagiellonian University in

Kraków Kraków (), or Cracow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city dates back to the seventh century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 159 ...

, became part of the Austrian Habsburg monarchy. In 1815, the newly established semi-autonomous

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Congress Poland Congress Poland, Congress Kingdom of Poland, or Russian Poland, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland, was a polity created in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna as a semi-autonomous Polish state, a successor to Napoleon's Duchy of Warsaw. It ...

found itself without a university at all, as Vilnius was incorporated into the

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. In 1816, Alexander I permitted the Polish authorities to create a university, comprising five departments: Law and Administration, Medicine, Philosophy, Theology, and Art and Humanities. The university soon grew to 800 students and 50 professors. After most of the students and professors took part in the November 1830 Uprising the university was closed down; it was again closed after the failed

January Uprising The January Uprising ( pl, powstanie styczniowe; lt, 1863 metų sukilimas; ua, Січневе повстання; russian: Польское восстание; ) was an insurrection principally in Russia's Kingdom of Poland that was aimed at ...

of 1863. As a consequence, all

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schools were prohibited by the Imperial Russian government which controlled Congress Poland. During its short existence, the university educated thousands of students, many of whom became part of the backbone of the Polish

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In 1915, during the

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, Warsaw was seized by German Empire and the occupying German authorities allowed a certain degree of liberalization to gain military support from the Poles. In accordance with the concept of '' Mitteleuropa'', the Germans permitted several Polish social and educational societies to be recreated, including the University of Warsaw. The Polish language was reintroduced, but, in order to maintain Polish patriotic movement in control, the number of lecturers was kept low. No limits on the number of students; between 1915 and 1918 the number of alumni rose from a mere 1,000 to over 4,500.

Second Polish Republic (1918–1939)

Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory

After Poland regained its independence in 1918, the University of Warsaw began to grow very quickly. It was reformed; all the important posts (the

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, deans and councils) became democratically elected, and the state spent considerable amounts of money to modernize and equip it. Many professors returned from exile and cooperated in the effort. By the late 1920s the level of education in Warsaw had reached that of western Europe. By the beginning of the 1930s the University of Warsaw had become the largest university in Poland, with over 250 lecturers and 10,000 students. However, the financial problems of the newly reborn state did not allow for free education, and students had to pay a tuition fee for their studies (an average monthly salary, for a year). Also, the number of

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s was very limited, and only approximately 3% of students were able to get one. Despite these economic problems, the University of Warsaw grew rapidly. New

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were opened, and the main campus was expanded. After the death of

Józef Piłsudski Józef Klemens Piłsudski (; 5 December 1867 – 12 May 1935) was a Polish statesman who served as the Naczelnik państwa, Chief of State (1918–1922) and Marshal of Poland, First Marshal of Second Polish Republic, Poland (from 1920). He was ...

the Senate of the University of Warsaw changed its name to "Józef Piłsudski University of Warsaw" (''Uniwersytet Warszawski im. Józefa Piłsudskiego''). The '' Sanacja'' government proceeded to limit the autonomy of the universities. Professors and students remained divided for the rest of the 1930s as the system of segregated seating for Jewish students, known as ghetto benches, was implemented customarily, not institutionally; comparable to the era of the

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in the United States.

World War II (1939–1945)

After the

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of 1939 the German authorities of the General Government closed all the institutions of higher education in Poland. The equipment and most of the laboratories were taken to Germany and divided amongst the

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while the main campus of the University of Warsaw was turned into military barracks. German racial theories assumed that no education of Poles was needed and the whole nation was to be turned into uneducated serfs of the German race. Education in Polish was banned and punished with death. However, many professors organized the so-called "Secret University of Warsaw" (''Tajny Uniwersytet Warszawski''). The lectures were held in small groups in private apartments and the attendants were constantly risking discovery and death. However, the net of underground faculties spread rapidly and by 1944 there were more than 300 lecturers and 3,500 students at various courses. Many students took part in the

Warsaw Uprising The Warsaw Uprising ( pl, powstanie warszawskie; german: Warschauer Aufstand) was a major World War II operation by the Polish underground resistance to liberate Warsaw from German occupation. It occurred in the summer of 1944, and it was led ...

as soldiers of the Armia Krajowa and Szare Szeregi. The German-held campus of the university was turned into a fortified area with bunkers and

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nests. It was located close to the buildings occupied by the German garrison of Warsaw. Heavy fights for the campus started on the first day of the Uprising, but the partisans were not able to break through the gates. Several assaults were bloodily repelled and the campus remained in German hands until the end of the fights. During the uprising and the occupation 63 professors were killed, either during fights or as an effect of German policy of extermination of Polish

. The university lost 60% of its buildings during the fighting in 1944. A large part of the collection of priceless works of art and books donated to the university was either destroyed or transported to Germany, never to return.

Post-war and the People's Republic (1945–1989)

After World War II it was not clear whether the university would be restored or whether Warsaw itself would be rebuilt. However, many professors who had survived the war returned, and began organizing the university from scratch. In December 1945, lectures resumed for almost 4,000 students in the ruins of the campus, and the buildings were gradually rebuilt. Until the late 1940s the university remained relatively independent. However, soon the communist authorities started to impose political controls, and the period of Stalinism started. Many professors were arrested by the Urząd Bezpieczeństwa (Secret Police), the books were censored and ideological criteria in employment of new lecturers and admission of students were introduced. On the other hand, education in Poland became free of charge and the number of young people to receive the state

s reached 60% of all the students. After Władysław Gomułka's rise to power in 1956, a brief period of liberalization ensued, though communist ideology still played a major role in most faculties (especially in such faculties as history, law, economics, and political science). International cooperation was resumed and the level of education rose. By mid-1960s the government started to suppress freedom of thought, which led to increasing unrest among the students. A political struggle within the communist party prompted Zenon Kliszko to ban the production of '' Dziady'' by Mickiewicz at the Teatr Narodowy, leading to 1968 Polish political crisis coupled with anti-Zionist and anti-democratic campaign and the outbreak of student demonstrations in Warsaw, which were brutally crushed – not by police, but by the ORMO ''reserve militia'' squads of plain-clothed workers. As a result, a large number of students and professors were expelled from the university. Nonetheless, the university remained the centre of free thought and education. What professors could not say during lectures, they expressed during informal meetings with their students. Many of them became leaders and prominent members of the

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movement and other societies of the democratic opposition which led to the

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. The scientists working at the University of Warsaw were also among the most prominent printers of books forbidden by

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Third Polish Republic (1989–present)

In 1999, a new University of Warsaw Library building was opened in Powiśle. After Poland joined the

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in 2004, the university obtained additional funds from the

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for the construction of additional buildings including the Biological and Chemical Research Centre, Centre of New Technologies, and a new building for the Faculty of Physics.

Campus

University of Warsaw owns a total of 126 buildings. Further construction and a vigorous renovation program are underway at the main campus. The university is spread out over the city, though most of the buildings are concentrated in two areas.

Main campus

Biblioteka Uniwersytecka w Warszawie 2018

The main campus of the University of Warsaw is in the city center, adjacent to the Krakowskie Przedmieście street. It comprises several historic

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s, most of which had been nationalized in the 19th century. The chief buildings include: *

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(''Pałac Kazimierzowski'') – the seat of the

and the

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; * Uruski Palace (''Pałac Uruskich'') – left side of main gate entrance, houses the Department of Geography and Regional Studies * the Old Library (''Stary BUW'') – since recent refurbishment, a secondary lecture building; * the Main School (''Szkoła Główna'') – former seat of the Main School until the January 1863 Uprising, later the faculty of biology; now, since its refurbishment, the seat of the Institute of archaeology; * '' Auditorium Maximum'' – the main lecture hall, with seats for several hundred students. The Warsaw University Library building is a short walk downhill from the main campus, in the Powiśle neighborhood.

Natural sciences campus

The second important campus is located near Banacha and Pasteura streets. It is home to the departments of chemistry, physics, biology, mathematics, computer science, and geology, and contains several other university buildings such as the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling, the Environmental Heavy Ion Laboratory that houses a cyclotron and a facility for the production of PET radiopharmaceuticals, and a sports facility. Several new buildings have been constructed within this campus in recent years, and the Department of Physics moved here from its previous location at Hoża Street. Together with buildings of other institutions, such as the Institute of Experimental Biology, Radium Institute and the Medical University of Warsaw, the campus is part of an almost contiguous area of scientific and educational facilities covering approximately .

Faculties

University of Warsaw Main Campus, Warsaw, Poland, 2019, 03

# Faculty of Applied Linguistics # Faculty of Applied Social Sciences and Resocialization # Faculty of Archaeology # Faculty of “Artes Liberales” # Faculty of Biology # Faculty of Chemistry # Faculty of Culture and Arts # Faculty of Economic Sciences #

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# Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies # Faculty of Geology # Faculty of History # Faculty of Journalism, Information and Book Studies #

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# Faculty of Management # Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics # Faculty of Modern Languages # Faculty of Oriental Studies # Faculty of Sociology # Faculty of Philosophy # Faculty of Physics # Faculty of Polish Studies # Faculty of Political Science and International Studies # Faculty of Psychology

Other institutes

* American Studies Center * British Studies Centre * Centre de Civilisation Française et d'Études Francophones auprès de l'Université de Varsovie * Centre for Archaeological Research at Novae * Centre for Environmental Study * Centre for Europe * Centre for European Regional and Local Studies (EUROREG) * Centre for Foreign Language Teaching * Centre for Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in the Humanities * Centre for Latin-American Studies (CESLA) * Centre for Open Multimedia Education * Centre for the Study of Classical Tradition in Poland and East-Central Europe * Centre of Studies in Territorial Self-Government and Local Development * Chaire UNESCO du Developpement Durable de l`Universite de Vaersovie * Comité Polonais de l'Alliance Français * Digital Economy Lab (DELab) – joint institute with

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* Erasmus of Rotterdam Chair * Heavy Ion Laboratory * Individual Inter-faculty Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences * Institute of Americas and Europe * Institute of International Relations – host of GMAPIR * The Robert B.Zajonc Institute for Social Studies * Inter-faculty Study Programme in Environmental Protection * Interdisciplinary Centre for Behavioural Genetics * Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling * Physical Education and Sports Centre * Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology * University Centre for Technology Transfer * University College of English Language Teacher Education * University of Warsaw for Foreign Language Teacher Training and European Education

Institutions

* Academic Radio Kampus 97,1 FM * Institute of Information Science and Book Studies * The Institute of Polish Language and Culture 'Polonicum' * University of Warsaw Libraries

The university in popular culture

* In Ian Fleming's 1961 novel '' Thunderball'', the ninth book in the

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series, one of the main characters, Ernst Stavro Blofeld who is the head of the global criminal organisation SPECTRE, is said to be a graduate of the University of Warsaw. * In 2016, the Polish Post issued commemorative stamps on the 200th anniversary of the founding of the university depicting the Column Hall of the building of the Faculty of History.

Notable alumni

Ryszard Kapuscinski, author-writer, at PEN Congress

* Jerzy Andrzejewski (1909–1983), author * Szymon Askenazy (1865-1935), Polish jurist, historian, educator, first Polish representative to the

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Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, (; nom de guerre: Jan Bugaj; 22 January 1921 – 4 August 1944) was a Polish poet and Home Army soldier, one of the most well known of the Generation of Columbuses, the young generation of Polish poets, of whom several ...

(1921–1944), poet,

Home Army The Home Army ( pl, Armia Krajowa, abbreviated AK; ) was the dominant Polish resistance movement in World War II, resistance movement in Occupation of Poland (1939–1945), German-occupied Poland during World War II. The Home Army was formed i ...

soldier killed in the

Menachem Begin Menachem Begin ( ''Menaḥem Begin'' (); pl, Menachem Begin (Polish documents, 1931–1937); ''Menakhem Volfovich Begin''; 16 August 1913 – 9 March 1992) was an Israeli politician, founder of Likud and the sixth Prime Minister of Israel. ...

(1913–1992), 6th

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(1977–1983),

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winner (1978) * Marek Bieńczyk (born 1956), writer, historian of literature, essayist and translator, Nike Award winner (2012) *

Adam Bodnar Adam Piotr Bodnar (born 6 January 1977) is a Polish lawyer, educator, and human rights activist. He was the Polish Ombudsman for Citizen Rights from 2015 until July 2021. Life and career In 2000, he graduated in law from the University of Warsa ...

(born 1977), lawyer, human rights activist, Polish Ombudsman * Tadeusz Borowski (1922–1951), poet, writer *

Kazimierz Brandys Kazimierz Brandys (27 October 1916 – 11 March 2000) was a Polish essayist and writer of film scripts. Biography Brandys was born in Łódź. He was the brother of the writer Marian Brandys and husband of the translator . He graduated in law f ...

(1916–2000), writer *

Marian Brandys Marian Brandys (25 January 1912 – 20 November 1998) was a Polish writer and screenwriter born in Wiesbaden into an assimilated Jewish family of the Polish intelligentsia. Brandys grew up in Łódź. His father owned a bank. Their prosperit ...

(1912–1998), writer, journalist *

Frédéric Chopin Frédéric François Chopin (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin; 1 March 181017 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leadin ...

(1810–1849), pianist, composer * Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz (born 1950), politician,

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(1996–1997), Marshal of the Sejm (2005) * Tomasz Dietl (born 1950), physicist * Samuel Eilenberg (1913–1998), mathematician, computer scientist, art collector *

Barbara Engelking Barbara Engelking (born 22 April 1962) is a Polish sociologist specializing in Holocaust studies. The founder and director of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research in Warsaw, she is the author or editor of several works on the Holocaust ...

(born 1962), sociologist * Joseph Epstein (1911–1944), communist leader of French resistance *

Lech Gardocki Lech Gardocki (born 13 April 1944) is a Polish lawyer, judge and former First President of the Supreme Court of Poland, a position he held from 1998 to 2010. Career He graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Warsaw in 1966. In 196 ...

(born 1944) lawyer, judge, former First President of the Supreme Court of Poland *

Marek Gazdzicki Marek Gaździcki (born 9 June 1956) is a Polish high-energy nuclear physicist, and the initiator and spokesperson of the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS). He, along with Mark I. Gorenstein, predicted the thres ...

(born 1956), nuclear physicist *

Bronisław Geremek Bronisław Geremek (; born Benjamin Lewertow;

(1932–2008), historian, politician * Małgorzata Gersdorf (born 1952), lawyer, first President of the Supreme Court of Poland * Maciej Gliwicz (born 1939), biologist * Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969), writer * Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz (born 1952), politician, President of the National Bank of Poland (1992–2001), Mayor of Warsaw (2006–2018) * Jan T. Gross (born 1947), historian, writer,

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professor * Zofia Helman (born 1937), musicologist *

Gustaw Herling-Grudziński Gustaw Herling-Grudziński (; May 20, 1919 − July 4, 2000) was a Polish writer, journalist, essayist, World War II underground fighter, and political dissident abroad during the communist system in Poland. He is best known for writing a personal ...

(1919–2000), journalist, writer,

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survivor *

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(1917–2008), economist, mathematician, Nobel Prize in Economics (2007) * Maria Janion (1926-2020), literary critic * Monika Jaruzelska (born 1963) fashion designer, journalist, daughter of former Polish President Wojciech Jaruzelski * Jerzy Jedlicki (1930–2018), historian of ideas, anti-communist activist * Jarosław Kaczyński (born 1949), politician,

(2006–2007) * Lech Kaczyński (1949–2010), politician, Mayor of Warsaw (2002–2005),

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(2005–2010) * Andrzej Kalwas (born 1936), lawyer, businessman, and former Polish Minister of Justice * Aleksander Kamiński (1903–1978), writer, leader of Polish Scouting and Guiding Association * Ryszard Kapuściński (1932–2007), writer and journalist * Mieczysław Karłowicz (1876–1909), composer * Jan Karski (1914–2000), Polish resistance fighter * Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925–2015), paleobiologist * Leszek Kołakowski (1927–2009), philosopher, historian of philosophy * Bronisław Komorowski (born 1952), politician, Marshal of the Sejm (2007–2010),

(2010–2015) * Alpha Oumar Konaré, (born 1946), 3rd President of Mali (1992–2002) * Wojciech Kopczuk,

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economist * Janusz Korwin-Mikke (born 1942), conservative-liberal politician and journalist *

Marek Kotański Marek Kotański, (March 11, 1942 – August 19, 2002) was a Polish charity worker and campaigner on behalf of disadvantaged people, including the homeless and those with HIV. He died in a car accident in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki, near Warsaw. Life ...

(1942–2002), psychologist and streetworker *

Jacek Kuroń Jacek Jan Kuroń (; 3 March 1934 – 17 June 2004) was one of the democratic leaders of opposition in the People's Republic of Poland. He was widely known as the "godfather of the Polish opposition," not unlike Václav Havel in Czechoslovakia. Ku ...

(1934–2004), historian, author, social worker, and politician *

Jan Józef Lipski Jan Józef Lipski (26 May 1926 in Warsaw – 10 September 1991 in Kraków) was a Polish critic, literature historian, politician and freemason. As a soldier of the Home Army (Armia Krajowa), he fought in the Warsaw Uprising. Editor of collected ...

(1926–1991), literature historian, politician * Ewa Łętowska (born 1940), lawyer, first Polish Ombudsman for Citizen Rights * Jerzy Łojek (1932–1986), historian, writer * Pawel Maciag (born 1978), lawyer, university professor in New York, diplomat, and journalist * Olga Malinkiewicz (born 1982), physicist *

Tadeusz Mazowiecki Tadeusz Mazowiecki (; 18 April 1927 – 28 October 2013) was a Polish author, journalist, philanthropist and Christian-democratic politician, formerly one of the leaders of the Solidarity movement, and the first non-communist Polish prime mini ...

(1927–2013), author, social worker, journalist,

(1989–1991) * Adam Michnik (born 1946), journalist * Karol Modzelewski (1937–2019), historian, politician *

Mirosław Nahacz Mirosław Nahacz (1984–2007) was a Polish novelist and screenwriter born in Gorlice. He majored in cultural studies at the University of Warsaw. Career In 2003, at the age of eighteen, Nahacz published his first novel ''Osiem Cztery'' (''Eight ...

(1984–2007), novelist, screenwriter * Jerzy Neyman (1894–1981), mathematician, statistician,

University of California The University of California (UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California. The system is composed of the campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Fran ...

professor * Jan Olszewski (1930-2019), lawyer, politician,

(1991–1992) * Janusz Onyszkiewicz (born 1937), politician * Maria Ossowska (1896–1974), sociologist * Bohdan Paczyński (1940–2007), astronomer * Rafał Pankowski (born 1976), sociologist and political scientist * Longin Pastusiak (born 1935), politician, Marshal of the Senate of the Republic of Poland (2001–2005) * Bolesław Piasecki (1915–1979), politician *

Krzysztof Piesiewicz Krzysztof Marek Piesiewicz (; born 25 October 1945 in Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish lawyer, screenwriter, and politician. From 1991 to 1993 and from 1997 to 2011 he was a member of Polish Senate. He was the head of the Ruch Społeczny (RS) or So ...

(born 1945), lawyer, screenwriter *

Marian Pilot Marian Pilot (born 6 December 1936) is a Polish writer, poet, journalist and screenwriter. He received the 2011 Nike Award, Poland's most important literary prize, for his novel ''Pióropusz'' (Plume). Life and career Born in 1936, in the vil ...

(born 1936), writer, journalist and screenwriter, Nike Award winner (2011) * Moshe Prywes (1914–1998), Israeli physician and educator; first President of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev *

Adam Przeworski Adam Przeworski (; born May 5, 1940) is a Polish-American professor of political science specializing in comparative politics. He is Carroll and Milton Professor Emeritus in the Department of Politics of New York University. He is a scholar of de ...

(born 1940), political scientist,

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then- Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, ...

professor * Bolesław Prus (1847–1912), writer *

Mikhail Reisner Mikhail Andreevich Reisner (russian: Михаил Андреевич Рейснер, German: ''Michael von Reusner''; 19 March 1868 – 3 August 1928) was a Russian and Soviet lawyer, jurist, writer, social psychologist and historian of Baltic G ...

(1868-1928), Russian and Soviet jurist, historian and academic. * Emanuel Ringelblum (1900–1944), historian, founder Emanuel Ringelblum Archives of

Warsaw Ghetto The Warsaw Ghetto (german: Warschauer Ghetto, officially , "Jewish Residential District in Warsaw"; pl, getto warszawskie) was the largest of the Nazi ghettos during World War II and the Holocaust. It was established in November 1940 by the N ...

Emanuel Ringelblum: The Creator of “Oneg Shabbat”
Holocaust Research Project. * Ireneusz Roszkowski (1910–1996), precursor of prenatal medicine * Józef Rotblat (1908–2005), physicist,

(1995) *

Stefan Sarnowski Stefan Sarnowski (1939 – 12 March 2014) was a Polish philosopher working as professor at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz. Biography Stefan Sarnowski graduated from University of Warsaw, and in 1964 obtained his magister degree for ...

(1939-2014), philosopher * Stanisław Sedlaczek (1892–1941), social worker, leader of Polish Scouting and Guiding Association *

Yitzhak Shamir Yitzhak Shamir ( he, יצחק שמיר, ; born Yitzhak Yezernitsky; October 22, 1915 – June 30, 2012) was an Israeli politician and the seventh Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms, 1983–1984 and 1986–1992. Before the establishment ...

(1915–2012), 7th

(1983–1984 and 1986–1992) * Wacław Sierpiński (1882–1969), mathematician * Andrzej Sobolewski (born 1951), physicist * Alexander Soloviev (1890-1971) Russian émigré jurist, historian, academic. *

Dmitry Strelnikoff Dmitry Aleksandrovich Strelnikov (russian: link=no, Дмитрий Александрович Стрельников-Ананьин Семиреченский ull spelling; Cossack from the old Cossack family (a descendant of the Siberian Cossa ...

(born 1969), Russian writer, biologist, journalist for the media * Kazimiera Szczuka (born 1966), literary critic, feminist,

LGBT rights Rights affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people vary greatly by country or jurisdiction—encompassing everything from the legal recognition of same-sex marriage to the death penalty for homosexuality. Notably, , ...

activist, television personality *

Marzena Ozarek Szilke Marzena Ozarek Szilke (''née'' Ozarek) is a Polish archaeologist, anthropologist and Paleopathology, paleopathologist. Ozarek mainly studies Ancient Egypt. Education Ozarek graduated with a master's degree in Archaeology from the University of W ...

, archaeologist, anthropologist and paleopathologist * Adam Szymczyk (born 1970), art critic and curator *

Magdalena Środa Magdalena Środa (née Magdalena Ciupak, b. January 7, 1957 in Warsaw) is a Polish feminist politician and philosopher, extraordinary professor of ethics at the University of Warsaw, and a feminist author. She is also a columnist for the ''Gaz ...

(born 1957), philosopher and feminist *

Alfred Tarski Alfred Tarski (, born Alfred Teitelbaum;School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews ''School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews''. January 14, 1901 – October 26, 1983) was a Polish-American logician ...

(1902–1982), logician, mathematician, member of the Lwów-Warsaw school of logic *

Władysław Tatarkiewicz Władysław Tatarkiewicz (; 3 April 1886, Warsaw – 4 April 1980, Warsaw) was a Polish philosopher, historian of philosophy, historian of art, esthetician, and ethicist. Early life and education Tatarkiewicz began his higher education a ...

(1886–1980), philosopher, historian of esthetics * Olga Tokarczuk (born 1962), writer, essayist, psychologist,

Nobel Prize in Literature ) , image = Nobel Prize.png , caption = , awarded_for = Outstanding contributions in literature , presenter = Swedish Academy , holder = Annie Ernaux (2022) , location = Stockholm, Sweden , year = 1901 ...

(2018) * Rafał Trzaskowski (born 1972), politician, academic teacher, Mayor of Warsaw *

Julian Tuwim Julian Tuwim (13 September 1894 – 27 December 1953), known also under the pseudonym "Oldlen" as a lyricist, was a Polish poet, born in Łódź, then part of the Russian Partition. He was educated in Łódź and in Warsaw where he studied la ...

(1894–1953), poet and writer * Alfred Twardecki (born 1962), archaeologist, historian of antiquity, museologist * Andrzej Udalski (born 1957), astronomer and astrophysicist *

Mordkhe Veynger Mordkhe Veynger (russian: Мордхе Вейнгер; 1890–1929), more infrequently known as Mikhail Borisovich Veynger (russian: Михаил Борисович Вейнгер) was a Russian and Soviet linguist. An ethnic Jew, he specialised ...

(1890–1929), Soviet-Jewish linguist *

Kostiantyn Voblyi Kostiantyn Hryhorovych Voblyi ( uk, Костянтин Григорович Воблий; May 27, 1876, Tsarychanka (now Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Dnipropetrovsk region) - September 12, 1947, Kyiv) - Ukrainian economic geographer, scientist economist ...

(1876-1947), Ukrainian economist, academic, active in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union. * Andrzej Kajetan Wróblewski (born 1933), experimental physicist * Janusz Andrzej Zajdel (1938–1985), physicist and science-fiction writer * Ludwik Zamenhof (1859–1917), physician, inventor of

Esperanto Esperanto ( or ) is the world's most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Created by the Warsaw-based ophthalmologist L. L. Zamenhof in 1887, it was intended to be a universal second language for international communi ...

* Andrzej Zaniewski (born 1939), author and poet *

Paweł Zarzeczny Paweł Andrzej Zarzeczny (26 January 1961 – 25 March 2017) was a Polish sports journalist, columnist and TV personality. Biography Career He was a graduate of the University of Warsaw. He started his journalistic career working for a weekl ...

(1961–2017), sports journalist, columnist and TV personality *

Anna Zawadzka Anna Zawadzka (8 February 1919, Warsaw – 22 June 2004, Warsaw) was a Polish teacher, author of textbooks, Scoutmaster (harcmistrzyni), sister of Tadeusz "Zośka" Zawadzki and daughter of professor and chemist Józef Zawadzki. During the years ...

(1919–2004), social worker, leader of Polish Scouting and Guiding Association *

Maciej Zembaty Maciej Zembaty (16 May 194427 June 2011) was a Polish artist, writer, journalist, singer, poet and comedian. Despite being considered one of the classics of Polish black humour, he is perhaps best known as a translator and populariser of songs and ...

(1944–2011), poet, writer, translator of

Leonard Cohen Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist. His work explored religion, politics, isolation, depression, sexuality, loss, death, and romantic relationships. He was inducted in ...

's works * Rafał A. Ziemkiewicz (born 1964), writer * Florian Znaniecki (1882–1958), philosopher and sociologist

Notable staff

Zigmunt Bauman na 20 Forumi vydavciv(Cropped)

Professors

* Osman Achmatowicz (1899–1988), chemist, rector of the Technical University of Łódź (1946–1953) *

Vladimir Prokhorovich Amalitskii Vladimir Prokhorovich Amalitskii (russian: Владимир Прохорович Амалицкий; 1860–1917) (alternative spelling: Amalitzky) was a Russian paleontologist and professor at Warsaw University who was involved in the discovery a ...

(1860–1917), paleontologist * Szymon Askenazy (1866–1935), historian * Aleksandr Nikolaevich Bartenev (1882-1946), zoologist * Maria Ludwika Bernhard (1908–1998), archaeologist * Karol Borsuk (1905–1982), mathematician * Franciszek Bujak (1919–1921) historian * Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay (1845–1929), linguist, introduced the concept of a

phoneme In phonology and linguistics, a phoneme () is a unit of sound that can distinguish one word from another in a particular language. For example, in most dialects of English, with the notable exception of the West Midlands and the north-wes ...

* Zygmunt Bauman (1925–2017), sociologist * Tomasz Dietl (born 1950), physisct, Laureate of Agilient Technologies Europhysics Prize of The European Physical Society (2005) * Samuel Dickstein (1851-1939), mathematician, proponent of Jewish assimilation in Poland * Benedykt Dybowski (1833–1930), biologist and explorer of

Siberia Siberia ( ; rus, Сибирь, r=Sibir', p=sʲɪˈbʲirʲ, a=Ru-Сибирь.ogg) is an extensive geographical region, constituting all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. It has been a part o ...

and Baikal area * Aleksandr Mikhailovich Evlakhov (1880-1966), literary critic *

Michel Foucault Paul-Michel Foucault (, ; ; 15 October 192625 June 1984) was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic. Foucault's theories primarily address the relationship between power and knowledge, and ho ...

(1926–1984), French philosopher, at the university dean-faculty of the French Centre 1958–1959 *

Stanisław Grabski Stanisław Grabski (; 5 April 1871 – 6 May 1949) was a Polish economist and politician associated with the National Democracy political camp. As the top Polish negotiator during the Peace of Riga talks in 1921, Grabski greatly influenced the f ...

(1871–1949), economist *

Dmitri Iosifovich Ivanovsky Dmitri Iosifovich Ivanovsky (alternative spelling ''Dmitrii'' or ''Dmitry Iwanowski''; russian: Дми́трий Ио́сифович Ивано́вский; 28 October 1864 – 20 June 1920) was a Russian botanist, the co-discoverer of :viruses ...

(1864-1920), botanist, pioneer in the discovery and study of viruses * Henryk Jabłoński (1909–2003), historian, nominal head of state of Poland (1972–1985) * Feliks Pawel Jarocki (1790–1865), zoologist * Barbara Jaruzelska (1931–2017), philologist and German studies professor, First Lady of Poland (1985–1990) * Nikolai Ivanovich Kareev (1850-1931), philosopher, historian * Yefim Fyodorovich Karsky (1861-1931) linguist, etnographer, paleographer * Jerzy Kolendo (1955-1983), classical archaeologist and historian * Leszek Kołakowski (1927–2009), philosopher * Kazimierz Kuratowski (1896–1980), mathematician * Joachim Lelewel (1786–1861), historian, politician and freedom fighter * Antoni Leśniowski (1867–1940), surgeon and medic, one of the discoverers of Crohn's disease * Edward Lipiński (1888–1986), economist, founder of the Main Statistical Office * Jan Łukasiewicz (1878–1956), mathematician and logician *

Mieczysław Maneli Mieczysław Maneli (born Moshe Meir Manela; 22 January 1922 – 9 April 1994) was a Polish lawyer, diplomat and academic best remembered for his work with the International Control Commission (ICC) during the Vietnam War, especially the "Maneli A ...

(1922–1994),

jurist A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyses and comments on law. This person is usually a specialist legal scholar, mostly (but not always) with a formal qualification in law and often a legal practitioner. In the Un ...

Leszek Marks Leszek Eugeniusz Marks (born 1951 in Warsaw) is a Polish geologist, professor ordinarius (since 1998), currently (2016) at the Warsaw University, Department of Climate Geology; and the Polish Geological Institute-National Research Institute (PIG ...

(born 1951), geologist * Kazimierz Michałowski (1901–1981), archaeologist, explorer of

Deir el Bahari Deir el-Bahari or Dayr al-Bahri ( ar, الدير البحري, al-Dayr al-Baḥrī, the Monastery of the North) is a complex of mortuary temples and tombs located on the west bank of the Nile, opposite the city of Luxor, Egypt. This is a part of ...

and Faras *

Andrzej Mostowski Andrzej Mostowski (1 November 1913 – 22 August 1975) was a Polish mathematician. He is perhaps best remembered for the Mostowski collapse lemma. Biography Born in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary, Mostowski entered University of Warsaw in 1931. He was ...

(1913–1975), mathematician * Nikolai Viktorovich Nasonov (1855-1939), zoologist * Maria Ossowska (1896–1974), sociologist * Stanisław Ossowski (1897–1963), sociologist * Vladimir Ivanovich Palladin (1859-1922), biochemist, botanist *

Grigol Peradze Saint Grigol Peradze ( ka, გრიგოლ ფერაძე; 13 September 1899 – 6 December 1942) was a prominent Georgian ecclesiastic figure, philologist, theologian, historian, and professor of patristics in the interwar period. Life ...

(1899–1942), Orthodox theologian * Leon Petrażycki (1867–1931),

, philosopher and logician, one of the founders of

sociology of law The sociology of law (legal sociology, or law and society) is often described as a sub-discipline of sociology or an interdisciplinary approach within legal studies. Some see sociology of law as belonging "necessarily" to the field of sociology ...

Ladislaus Pilars de Pilar Ladislaus Baron Pilars de Pilar ( pl, Władysław Pilars de Pilar, Opatówek, 3 March 1874 - Chorzów, 22 November 1952) was a Polish poet, historian, entrepreneur and a literature professor at the University of Warsaw. Biography He was a s ...

(1874–1952), literature professor, poet and entrepreneur * Adam Podgórecki (1925–1998), sociologist of law * Dmitry Yakovlevich Samokvasov (1843-1911), archaeologist, legal historian * Henryk Samsonowicz (1930–2021), historian, rector (1980–1982) * Wacław Sierpiński (1882–1969), mathematician *

Alfred Sokołowski Alfred Marcin Sokołowski (11 November 1849 in Włodawa - 8 March 1924 in Warsaw) was a Polish pulmonologist and professor of the University of Warsaw. He specialised in the field of Phthisiatry (study of tuberculosis) and he was one of the pion ...

(1849–1924), physician and a pioneer in

tuberculosis Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by ''Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' (MTB) bacteria. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can also affect other parts of the body. Most infections show no symptoms, in w ...

treatment * Hélène Sparrow (1891–1970), bacteriologist and public health pioneer, especially typhus * Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin (1849–1915), mathematician * Jan Strelau (born 1931), psychologist * Jerzy Szacki (1929–2016), sociologist and historian * Andrzej K. Tarkowski (born 1933), zoologist, Laureate of Japan Prize (2002) * Stanisław Thugutt (1873–1941), politician, rector (1919–1920) *

Georgy Feodosevich Voronoy Georgy Feodosevich Voronoy (russian: Георгий Феодосьевич Вороной; ukr, Георгій Феодосійович Вороний; 28 April 1868 – 20 November 1908) was an Imperial Russian mathematician of Ukrainian descent ...

(1868-1908), mathematician *

Tadeusz Wałek-Czarnecki Tadeusz Bronisław Wałek-Czarnecki (1889–1949) was a Polish historian. Wałek-Czarnecki studied history and archaeology at the Jagiellonian University, as a pupil of Piotr Bieńkowski. In 1910 he went abroad and studied in Berlin under E. M ...

(1889–1949), professor of Ancient History * Ewa Wipszycka (born 1933), historian and papyrologist *

Władysław Witwicki Władysław Witwicki (30 April 1878, Lubaczów – 21 December 1948, Konstancin) was a Polish psychologist, philosopher, translator (mainly of Plato's works into Polish), historian (of philosophy and art) and artist. He is seen as one of t ...

(1878–1948), psychologist, philosopher, translator and artist * Georgy Viktorovich Wulff (1863-1925), crystallographer *

Włodzimierz Zonn Wlodzimierz Zonn (14 July 1905, Vilnius – 28 February 1975) was a Polish astronomer. He studied at the University of Stefan Batory at Wilno, where he later worked as a professor. From 1950, Zonn was director of Astronomical Observatory of th ...

(1905–1985), astronomer

Rectors

# Wojciech Szweykowski (1818–1831) # Józef Karol Skrodzki (1831) #

Józef Mianowski Józef Mianowski (1804–1879) was a Polish medical researcher and practitioner, academic, social and political activist, and rector of the "Main School" incarnation (1862–69) of Warsaw University. In honor of Mianowski, after his death, in 188 ...

(1862–1869) # Piotr Ławrowski (1869–1873) # Nikołaj Błagowieszczański (1874–1884) # Nikołaj Ławrowski (1884–1890) # Michaił Szałfiejew (1895) # Pawieł Kowalewski (1896) # Grigorij Zenger (1896) # Michaił Szałfiejew (1898) # Grigorij Uljanow (1899–1903) # Piotr Ziłow (1904) # Yefim Karskiy (1905–1911) # Wasilij Kudrewiecki (1911–1912) # Iwan Trepicyn (1913) # Siergiej Wiechow (1914–1915) # Józef Brudziński (1915–1917) # Antoni Kostanecki (1917–1919) # Stanisław Thugutt (1919–1920) # Jan Karol Kochanowski (1920–1921) # Jan Mazurkiewicz (1921–1922) # Jan Łukasiewicz (1922–1923) # Ignacy Koschembahr-Łyskowski (1923–1924) #

Franciszek Krzyształowicz Franciszek Krzyształowicz (1868 - 1931) was a Polish dermatologist. He served as the rector of the University of Warsaw from 1924 to 1925. In 1919 he became the professor and head of dermatology at the University of Warsaw The University of ...

(1924–1925) # Stefan Pieńkowski (1925–1926) # Bolesław Hryniewiecki (1926–1927) # Antoni Szlagowski (1927–1928) # Gustaw Przychocki (1928–1929) # Tadeusz Brzeski (1929–1930) # Mieczysław Michałowicz (1930–1931) # Jan Łukasiewicz (1931–1932) # Józef Ujejski (1932–1933) # Stefan Pieńkowski (1933–1936) # Włodzimierz Antoniewicz (1936–1939) # Jerzy Modrakowski (1939) # Stefan Pieńkowski (1945–1947) # Franciszek Czubalski (1947–1949) # Jan Wasilkowski (1949–1952) # Stanisław Turski (1952–1969) # Zygmunt Rybicki (1969–1980) # Henryk Samsonowicz (1980–1982) # Kazimierz Albin Dobrowolski (1982–1985) # ''Rector electus'' Klemens Szaniawski (1984) # Grzegorz Białkowski (1985–1989) # Andrzej Kajetan Wróblewski (1989–1993) # Włodzimierz Siwiński (1993–1999) # Piotr Węgleński (1999–2005) #

Katarzyna Chałasińska-Macukow Katarzyna Chałasińska-Macukow (born 20 March 1946 in Łódź, Poland) is Polish physicist and professor at the University of Warsaw. In 2005 and again in 2008 elected for the post of the Rector (academia), rector of the University of Warsaw. F ...

(2005–2012) # Marcin Pałys (2012–2020) # Alojzy Nowak (since 2020)

Staff

Czesław Miłosz Czesław Miłosz (, also , ; 30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004) was a Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat. Regarded as one of the great poets of the 20th century, he won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its citation, ...

– janitor at Warsaw University Library during World War II; recipient of 1980

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External links

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The WU Students Association

Website of The University New Library
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