Grzegorz Błaszczyk (born 1953 in

Poznań Poznań ( ) is a city on the Warta, River Warta in west Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business center and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John's ...

) is 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 ...

, professor at the

Adam Mickiewicz University Adam is the name given in Genesis 1–5 to the first human. Adam is the first human-being aware of God, and features as such in various belief systems (including Judaism, Christianity, Gnosticism and Islam). According to Christianity, Adam si ...

. He graduated from the Adam Mickiewicz University in 1977 and gained a Ph.D. from this university in 1983. In 1993 he passed his

habilitation Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in Germany, France, Italy, Poland and some other European and non-English-speaking countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excelle ...

. In 1999 Błaszczyk gained the title of professor. He specializes in the history of

Grand Duchy of Lithuania The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a sovereign state in northeastern Europe that existed from the 13th century, succeeding the Kingdom of Lithuania, to the late 18th century, when the territory was suppressed during the 1795 Partitions of Poland, ...

. He is the author of 11 books and more than 100 other publications.

Works

* ''Diecezja żmudzka od XV do początku XVII w eku uposażenie'' (Poznań 1992) * ''Litwa współczesna'' (Poznań 1992) * ''Diecezja żmudzka od XV do początku XVII wieku: ustrój'' (Poznań 1993) * ''Burza koronacyjna : dramatyczny fragment stosunków polsko-litewskich w XV wieku'' (Poznań 1998) * ''Litwa na przełomie średniowiecza i nowożytności 1492-1569'' (Poznań 2002) * ''Chrzest Litwy'' (Poznań 2006) * ''Geografia historyczna Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego : stan i perspektywy badań'' (Poznań 2007)

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Biography
* Historians of Lithuania Polish male non-fiction writers Living people 1953 births Academic staff of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań 21st-century Polish historians 20th-century Polish historians People from Poznań {{Poland-historian-stub