Stanisław Arnold (20 December 1895 – 3 November 1973) was a Polish historian, professor of the

University of Warsaw The University of Warsaw (, ) is a public university, public research university in Warsaw, Poland. Established on November 19, 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country, offering 37 different fields of study as well ...

. He was a member of the

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and chief of the Marxist Association of Historians.

Bohdan Urbankowski Bohdan Urbankowski (19 May 1943 – 15 June 2023) was a Polish writer, poet, and philosopher. An opposition activist in the People's Republic of Poland, he received several awards for his publications, most of which were published underground (' ...

: Czerwona msza czyli Uśmiech Stalina. T. II. Warsaw 1998, p. 154.

Biography

Arnold was born on 20 December 1895 in

Dąbrowa Górnicza Dąbrowa Górnicza () is a city in Zagłębie Dąbrowskie, southern Poland, near Katowice and Sosnowiec. It is located in eastern part of the Silesian Voivodeship, on the Czarna Przemsza and Biała Przemsza rivers (tributaries of the Vistula Rive ...

. He was the son of Jan, director of a mine, and Romana née Bojanowski. In 1920 he defended his PhD thesis ''Władztwo biskupie na grodzie wolborskim w wieku XIII'' under supervision of Marceli Handelsman. Later he became an employee of the

, with which he was connected until retirement in 1966. From 1924 to 1928, he was working as a history teacher at Stefan Batory 2nd High Schoolin

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. he died on 3 November 1973 in Warsaw.

Students

His students was Artur Eisenbach.

Selected publications

* ''Możnowładztwo polskie w XI i XII wieku i jego podstawy gospodarczo-społeczne'' (1925) * ''Terytoria plemienne w ustroju administracyjnym Polski piastowskiej (wiek XII-XIII)'' (1927) * ''W sprawie ustroju plemiennego na ziemiach polskich'' (1928) * ''Geografia historyczna, jej zasady i metody'' (1929) * ''Rozwój handlu polskiego'' (1939) * ''Geografia historyczna Polski'' (1951) * ''Historia Polski od połowy XV wieku do roku 1795'' (1953, with Kazimierz Piwarski and Jerzy Michalski) * ''Podłoże gospodarczo-społeczne polskiego Odrodzenia'' (1953)

References

Bibliography

* ''Biogramy uczonych polskich'', Część I: Nauki społeczne, zeszyt 1: A-J, Wrocław 1983. 1895 births 1973 deaths People from Dąbrowa Górnicza 20th-century Polish historians Polish male non-fiction writers Academic staff of the University of Warsaw {{Poland-historian-stub