Anna Wolff-Powęska (born 1941) is a Polish

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and

political scientist Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...

specialising in Polish-

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relations. She was the director of the

Western Institute The Western Institute in Poznań (Polish: ''Instytut Zachodni'', German ''West-Institut'', French: ''L'Institut Occidental'') is a scientific research society focusing on the Western provinces of Poland - Kresy Zachodnie (including Greater Polan ...

(Instytut Zachodni) in

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from 1990 to 2004. She is one of the foremost authorities on Germany in Poland. In 1964, she graduated in history from the Philosophical-Historical Department of

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. For a few years, she taught history in primary schools, until she was employed by the

(Instytut Zachodni) in

in 1969. In 1970, she obtained a Ph.D., and in 1980 she completed her habilitation with a thesis on political and law doctrines at the same university. She became full professor in 1986 and was made director of the Western Institute in 1990. She left this post in 2004, but continues to work at the institute.

Areas of activity

Wolff-Powęska's main areas of interest are the history of German political thought and the political culture of Central-

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Awards

In 2005, Wolff-Powęska received the Polish-German Award for special contribution to Polish-German relations.
Viadrina Award for Polish historian and political scientist

Publications

* Doktryna geopolityki w Niemczech (1979), * Polityczne i filozoficzne nurty konserwatyzmu w Republice Federalnej Niemiec (1984), * Niemiecka myśl polityczna wieku oświecenia (1988), * Wspólna Europa. Mit czy rzeczywistość (praca zbiorowa, 1990), * Polacy wobec Niemców. Z dziejów kultury politycznej Polskiej Rzeczypospolitej Ludowej 1945-1989 (1993), * Oswojona Rewolucja. Europa Środkowo-Wschodnia w procesie demokratyzacji (1998), * Polen in Deutschland, Integration oder Separation? (2000), * Przestrzeń i polityka. Z dziejów niemieckiej myśli politycznej (antologia, red. 2000), * A bliźniego swego... Kościoły w Niemczech wobec „problemu żydowskiego” (2003).

References

20th-century Polish historians Writers from Poznań Living people 1941 births Polish women historians 21st-century Polish historians Recipients of the European Citizen's Prize {{Poland-historian-stub