Piotr Eberhardt (December 27, 1935 – September 10, 2020) was a Polish geographer, a professor at the

Polish Academy of Sciences The Polish Academy of Sciences (, PAN) is a Polish state-sponsored institution of higher learning. Headquartered in Warsaw, it is responsible for spearheading the development of science across the country by a society of distinguished scholars a ...

and author of studies in the field of

demography Demography () is the statistical study of human populations: their size, composition (e.g., ethnic group, age), and how they change through the interplay of fertility (births), mortality (deaths), and migration. Demographic analysis examine ...

and population geography. His works included the ethnic problems of Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th century. He also specialized in the field of

geopolitics Geopolitics () is the study of the effects of Earth's geography on politics and international relations. Geopolitics usually refers to countries and relations between them, it may also focus on two other kinds of State (polity), states: ''de fac ...

.The

Curriculum vitae In English, a curriculum vitae (,

of Pitor Eberhard

Biography

Eberhardt was born in

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, Poland. From the 1960s onwards, he was associated with the Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization of the

, where in 1968 he earned his doctorate, and in 1976

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. The title of professor of earth science was bestowed upon him in 1994. Since 1983 he taught at the

John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (, , abbreviation KUL) is a university established in 1918. History :pl:Idzi Radziszewski, Father Idzi Benedykt Radziszewski founded the university in 1918. Vladimir Lenin, Lenin allowed the priest ...

Works

* Rozmieszczenie i dynamika ludności wiejskiej w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej w XX wieku, Warszawa 1991 * Polska granica wschodnia 1939-1945, Warszawa 1992 * Przemiany narodowościowe na Ukrainie XX wieku, Warszawa 1994 *Przemiany narodowościowe na Białorusi, Warszawa 1994 *Między Rosją a Niemcami. Przemiany narodowościowe w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej w XX wieku, Warszawa 1996 *Przemiany narodowościowe na Litwie, Warszawa 1998 *Polska ludność kresowa. Rodowód, liczebność, rozmieszczenie, Warszawa 1998 *Geografia ludności Rosji, Warszawa 2002 *Ethnic Groups and Population Changes in Twentieth-Century Central-Eastern Europe. History, Data and Analysis, New York, London 2003 *Polska i jej granice. Z historii polskiej geografii politycznej, Lublin 2004 *Przemiany demograficzno-etniczne na obszarze Jugosławii w XX wieku, Lublin 2005 *Twórcy polskiej geopolityki, Kraków 2006 *Political Migrations on Polish Territories 1939-1950, Warsaw 200

Awards

*1994: prize of ''Przegląd Wschodni'' quarterly for scientific achievements related to the problems of Eastern Europe *2002: Stanisław Staszic Award from the

*2004:

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state prize for outstanding scientific achievements *2009: Zygmunt Gloger Prize and medal.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Eberhardt, Piotr 1935 births 2020 deaths Polish geographers Academic staff of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin