Lech Trzeciakowski (24 December 1931 – 7 January 2017) was a Polish
historian
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who served as director of the
Western Institute (''Instytut Zachodni'') in Poznań from 1974 to 1978. Born 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 ...
, he also died there in 2017.
Biography
He was the son of Marian Trzeciakowski, who was an insurgent during the
Greater Poland uprising and was a civil servant of the
Second Polish Republic
The Second Polish Republic, at the time officially known as the Republic of Poland, was a country in Central and Eastern Europe that existed between 7 October 1918 and 6 October 1939. The state was established in the final stage of World War I ...
, and Stefania (née Dębicka). In 1938, he began
primary school
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in Poznań. In 1945, he passed his primary school exit exams and passed the entrance exam for the
Karol Marcinkowski High School. He belonged to the at the school.
Selected publications
*Lech Trzeciakowski, ''Kulturkampf w zaborze pruskim'', Poznań 1970
*Lech Trzeciakowski, ''Pod pruskim zaborem 1850-1914'', Warszawa 1973
*Lech Trzeciakowski, ''Walka o polskość miast Poznańskiego na przełomie XIX i XX wieku'', Poznań 1964
*Lech Trzeciakowski, ''W dziewiętnastowiecznym Poznaniu'', Poznań 1987
Notes
References
Nauka PolskaHerder Instytut, Bibliography
1931 births
2017 deaths
20th-century Polish historians
Polish male non-fiction writers
Writers from Poznań
People from Poznań Voivodeship (1921–1939)
Herder Prize recipients
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