Adam Galos (22 July 1924 – 11 April 2013) was a

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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 race; as well as the stu ...

and professor at

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. He specialized in the history of

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. He died, aged 88, in Wrocław. He spent his childhood in

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, where his father worked as officer. In 1946 he graduated at history and started working at University of Wrocław. In 1949 Galos gained PhD. The topic of his thesis was ''Społeczeństwo niemieckie wobec ustaw antypolskich 1894–1909''.

Works

*''Rugi pruskie na Górnym Śląsku (1885-1890)'' (1954) *''Historia Niemiec'' (1981, with

Władysław Czapliński Władysław Czapliński (3 October 1905 in Tuchów – 17 August 1981 in Wrocław) was a Polish historian, a professor of the University of Wrocław, author of many popular books about Polish history. He finished his studies at the Jagiellonian Un ...

and

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