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. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...

. 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 the ti ...

, technical, and the

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s. The University of Warsaw consists of 126 buildings and educational complexes with over 18 faculties:

biology Biology is the scientific study of life. It is a natural science with a broad scope but has several unifying themes that tie it together as a single, coherent field. For instance, all organisms are made up of cells that process hereditary ...

chemistry Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the elements that make up matter to the compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions: their composition, structure, propertie ...

journalism Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the " news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree. The word, a noun, applies to the occupation (prof ...

and political science,

philosophy Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. S ...

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 re ...

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, an ...

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 invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as we ...

, 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. Ling ...

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 languages, West Slavic language of the Lechitic languages, Lechitic group written in the Latin script. It is spoken primarily in Poland and serves as t ...

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 a ...

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 societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the original "science of soci ...

, management and

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computer science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to practical disciplines (includin ...

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 r ...

. 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

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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

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left

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

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, became part of the Austrian

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. 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. ...

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

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of 1863. As a consequence, all Polish-language 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 ''

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'', 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 rector,

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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 departments were opened, and the main

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was expanded. After the death of

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the Senate of the University of Warsaw changed its name to "Józef Piłsudski University of Warsaw" (''Uniwersytet Warszawski im. Józefa Piłsudskiego''). The ''

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'' 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 Polish Defensive War of 1939 the German authorities of the

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

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s 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

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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

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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

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'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

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to ban the production of '' Dziady'' by Mickiewicz at the Teatr Narodowy, leading to

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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 collapse of communism. 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

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street. It comprises several historic

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s, most of which had been nationalized in the 19th century. The chief buildings include: * Kazimierzowski Palace (''Pałac Kazimierzowski'') – the seat of the rector 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 # Faculty of Education # Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies # Faculty of Geology # Faculty of History # Faculty of Journalism, Information and Book Studies # Faculty of Law and Administration # 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

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's 1961 novel '' Thunderball'', the ninth book in the

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series, one of the main characters,

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who is the head of the global criminal organisation SPECTRE, is said to be a graduate of the University of Warsaw. * In 2016, the

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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 (1921–1944), poet, Home Army soldier killed in the

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(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 (born 1977), lawyer, human rights activist, Polish Ombudsman *

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(1922–1951), poet, writer * Kazimierz Brandys (1916–2000), writer * Marian Brandys (1912–1998), writer, journalist *

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(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 (born 1962), sociologist * Joseph Epstein (1911–1944), communist leader of French resistance * Lech Gardocki (born 1944) lawyer, judge, former First President of the Supreme Court of Poland * Marek Gazdzicki (born 1956), nuclear physicist * Bronisław Geremek (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

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(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 (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 *

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(born 1963) fashion designer, journalist, daughter of former Polish President

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* 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 A justice ministry, ministry of justice, or department of justice is a ministry or other government agency in charge of the administration of justice. The ministry or department is often headed by a minister of justice (minister for justice in ...

* 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 Jan Karski (24 June 1914 – 13 July 2000) was a Polish soldier, resistance-fighter, and diplomat during World War II. He is known for having acted as a courier in 1940–1943 to the Polish government-in-exile and to Poland's Western Allies a ...

(1914–2000), Polish resistance fighter * Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925–2015), paleobiologist * Leszek Kołakowski (1927–2009), philosopher, historian of philosophy *

Bronisław Komorowski Bronisław Maria Komorowski (; born 4 June 1952) is a Polish politician and historian who served as President of Poland from 2010 to 2015. Komorowski served as Minister of Defence from 2000 to 2001. As Marshal of the Sejm, Komorowski exercise ...

(born 1952), politician, Marshal of the Sejm (2007–2010),

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

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

economist * Janusz Korwin-Mikke (born 1942), conservative-liberal politician and journalist * Marek Kotański (1942–2002), psychologist and streetworker * Jacek Kuroń (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 (1927–2013), author, social worker, journalist,

(1989–1991) * Adam Michnik (born 1946), journalist * Karol Modzelewski (1937–2019), historian, politician * Mirosław Nahacz (1984–2007), novelist, screenwriter *

Jerzy Neyman Jerzy Neyman (April 16, 1894 – August 5, 1981; born Jerzy Spława-Neyman; ) was a Polish mathematician and statistician who spent the first part of his professional career at various institutions in Warsaw, Poland and then at University College ...

(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 Fr ...

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 Longin Hieronim Pastusiak (pronounced ; born August 22, 1935 in Łódź, Poland) is a Polish politician and historian. Academic career In 1959 Pastusiak earned his Master of Arts degree form Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affa ...

(born 1935), politician,

Marshal of the Senate of the Republic of Poland The Marshal of the Senate of the Republic of Poland ( pl, Marszałek Senatu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej) is the presiding officer of the Senate of Poland. The marshal is also third person according to the Polish order of precedence, after Presiden ...

(2001–2005) * Bolesław Piasecki (1915–1979), politician * Krzysztof Piesiewicz (born 1945), lawyer, screenwriter * Marian Pilot (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 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) ( he, אוניברסיטת בן-גוריון בנגב, ''Universitat Ben-Guriyon baNegev'') is a public research university in Beersheba, Israel. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has five campuses: th ...

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 dem ...

(born 1940), political scientist,

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professor *

Bolesław Prus Aleksander Głowacki (20 August 1847 – 19 May 1912), better known by his pen name Bolesław Prus (), was a Polish novelist, a leading figure in the history of Polish literature and philosophy, as well as a distinctive voice in world lit ...

(1847–1912), writer * Mikhail Reisner (1868-1928), Russian and Soviet jurist, historian and academic. *

Emanuel Ringelblum Emanuel Ringelblum (November 21, 1900 – March 10 (most likely), 1944) was a Polish historian, politician and social worker, known for his ''Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto'', ''Notes on the Refugees in Zbąszyn'' chronicling the deportation of J ...

(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 ...

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 (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 Wacław Franciszek Sierpiński (; 14 March 1882 – 21 October 1969) was a Polish mathematician. He was known for contributions to set theory (research on the axiom of choice and the continuum hypothesis), number theory, theory of functions, an ...

(1882–1969), mathematician * Andrzej Sobolewski (born 1951), physicist * Alexander Soloviev (1890-1971) Russian émigré jurist, historian, academic. * Dmitry Strelnikoff (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, , 33 ...

activist, television personality * Marzena Ozarek Szilke, archaeologist, anthropologist and paleopathologist * Adam Szymczyk (born 1970), art critic and curator * Magdalena Środa (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 a ...

(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 at ...

(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 (1894–1953), poet and writer * Alfred Twardecki (born 1962), archaeologist, historian of antiquity, museologist * Andrzej Udalski (born 1957), astronomer and astrophysicist * Mordkhe Veynger (1890–1929), Soviet-Jewish linguist * Kostiantyn Voblyi (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 commun ...

* Andrzej Zaniewski (born 1939), author and poet * Paweł Zarzeczny (1961–2017), sports journalist, columnist and TV personality * Anna Zawadzka (1919–2004), social worker, leader of Polish Scouting and Guiding Association * Maciej Zembaty (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 Florian Witold Znaniecki (15 January 1882 – 23 March 1958) was a Polish philosopher and sociologist who taught and wrote in Poland and in the United States. Over the course of his work he shifted his focus from philosophy to sociology. H ...

(1882–1958), philosopher and sociologist

Notable staff

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Professors

* Osman Achmatowicz (1899–1988), chemist, rector of the Technical University of Łódź (1946–1953) * Vladimir Prokhorovich Amalitskii (1860–1917), paleontologist * Szymon Askenazy (1866–1935), historian * Aleksandr Nikolaevich Bartenev (1882-1946), zoologist * Maria Ludwika Bernhard (1908–1998), archaeologist *

Karol Borsuk Karol Borsuk (May 8, 1905 – January 24, 1982) was a Polish mathematician. His main interest was topology, while he obtained significant results also in functional analysis. Borsuk introduced the theory of '' absolute retracts'' (ARs) and '' ab ...

(1905–1982), mathematician * Franciszek Bujak (1919–1921) historian *

Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay Jan Niecisław Ignacy Baudouin de Courtenay (13 March 1845 – 3 November 1929) was a Polish linguist and Slavist, best known for his theory of the phoneme and phonetic alternations. For most of his life Baudouin de Courtenay worked at Imperia ...

(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-w ...

Zygmunt Bauman Zygmunt Bauman (; 19 November 1925 – 9 January 2017) was a Polish sociologist and philosopher. He was driven out of the Polish People's Republic during the 1968 Polish political crisis and forced to give up his Polish citizenship. He emigrat ...

(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 Benedykt Tadeusz Dybowski (12 May 183331 January 1930) was a Polish naturalist and physician. Life Benedykt Dybowski was born in Adamaryni, within the Minsk Governorate of the Russian Empire to Polish nobility. He was the brother of naturali ...

(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 (1871–1949), economist * Dmitri Iosifovich Ivanovsky (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 Halina Barbara Jaruzelska (née Ryfa; 23 January 1931 – 29 May 2017) was a Polish academic, philologist, and professor of German studies and language. Jaruzelska was the First Lady of Poland from 1985 to 1990 during the government of her husban ...

(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 Kazimierz Kuratowski (; 2 February 1896 – 18 June 1980) was a Polish mathematician and logician. He was one of the leading representatives of the Warsaw School of Mathematics. Biography and studies Kazimierz Kuratowski was born in Warsaw, ...

(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 Crohn's disease is a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that may affect any segment of the gastrointestinal tract. Symptoms often include abdominal pain, diarrhea (which may be bloody if inflammation is severe), fever, abdominal distension, ...

* Edward Lipiński (1888–1986), economist, founder of the Main Statistical Office * Jan Łukasiewicz (1878–1956), mathematician and logician * Mieczysław Maneli (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 U ...

* Leszek Marks (born 1951), geologist *

Kazimierz Michałowski Kazimierz Józef Marian Michałowski (born December 14, 1901 in Tarnopol – January 1, 1981 in Warsaw) was a Polish archaeologist and Egyptologist, art historian, member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, professor ordinarius of the U ...

(1901–1981), archaeologist, explorer of Deir el Bahari and

Faras Faras (formerly grc, Παχώρας, ''Pakhôras''; la, Pachoras; Old Nubian: Ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲣⲁⲥ, ''Pakhoras'') was a major city in Lower Nubia. The site of the city, on the border between modern Egypt and Sudan at Wadi Halfa Salient, was ...

* Andrzej Mostowski (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 (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 (1874–1952), literature professor, poet and entrepreneur *

Adam Podgórecki Adam Podgórecki (1925–1998) was a sociologist and one of the founders of the Research Committee on Sociology of Law. Podgórecki was also one of the founders of the first institute at Warsaw University which was devoted to the social scientific ...

(1925–1998), sociologist of law * Dmitry Yakovlevich Samokvasov (1843-1911), archaeologist, legal historian * Henryk Samsonowicz (1930–2021), historian, rector (1980–1982) *

(1882–1969), mathematician * Alfred Sokołowski (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 is awarded to people from all parts of the world whose "original and outstanding achievements in science and technology are recognized as having advanced the frontiers of knowledge and served the cause of peace and prosperity for mankind." The P ...

(2002) * Stanisław Thugutt (1873–1941), politician, rector (1919–1920) * Georgy Feodosevich Voronoy (1868-1908), mathematician * Tadeusz Wałek-Czarnecki (1889–1949), professor of Ancient History * Ewa Wipszycka (born 1933), historian and papyrologist * Władysław Witwicki (1878–1948), psychologist, philosopher, translator and artist * Georgy Viktorovich Wulff (1863-1925), crystallographer * Włodzimierz Zonn (1905–1985), astronomer

Rectors

# Wojciech Szweykowski (1818–1831) # Józef Karol Skrodzki (1831) # Józef Mianowski (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 Józef Polikarp Brudziński (26 January 1874, Bolewo – 18 December 1917, Warsaw) was a Polish pediatrician born in the village of Bolewo (now in Mława County). He studied medicine in Tartu and Moscow, and in 1897 moved to Kraków, where he ...

(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 (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 (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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