Zdzisław Spieralski (9 May 1927 – 26 February 1983) was a Polish

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

and journalist. He was studying history at the

University of Łódź The University of Łódź (, ) is a public research university founded in 1945 in Łódź, Poland, as a continuation of three higher education institutions functioning in Łódź in the interwar period — the Teacher Training Institute (192 ...

. In 1963 he gained a Ph.D. from the

University of Warsaw The University of Warsaw (, ) is a public university, public research university in Warsaw, Poland. Established on November 19, 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country, offering 37 different fields of study as well ...

. Spieralski had been working as a journalist since 1949. He had been working at the Instytut Historii PAN since 1972. He was specialist at the Polish military history from 15th to 17th century.

Books

*''W walce z najazdem szwedzkim'', MON 1956 (with Zbigniew Kuchowicz) *''Bitwa pod Koronowem 10 X 1410'', Bydgoszcz 1961 *''Awantury mołdawskie'', Wiedza Powszechna 1967 *''Stefan Czarniecki, 1604-1665'', Wydawnictwa MON, Warszawa 1974 *''Jan Tarnowski 1488-1561'', MON Warszawa 1977 * ''500 zagadek o dawnym wojsku polskim'', Wiedza Powszechna, 1977 *''Jan Zamoyski'', Wiedza Powszechna 1989

References

Marek Barański, Spieralski Zdzisław, In: Słownik historyków polskich, ed. Maria Prosińska-Jackl, Warszawa 1994, p. 489. {{DEFAULTSORT:Spieralski, Zdzislaw 20th-century Polish historians Polish male non-fiction writers 1927 births 1983 deaths University of Łódź alumni University of Warsaw alumni