Włodzimierz Jastrzębski (3 September 1939 – 26 January 2024) was a Polish historian and a professor of

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, born in

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. He specialized in Polish history during World War II. He studied

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, a sequence of events that took place in Bydgoszcz (), a Polish city with a sizable German minority, between 3 and 4 September 1939, immediately after the

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, supporting the "traditional Polish POV" until later, when he cancelled his results. Jastrzębski supervised seven doctoral students. Jastrzębski died in

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on 26 January 2024, at the age of 84.Zmarł prof. Włodzimierz Jastrzębski jeden z najwybitniejszych historyków regionu kujawsko-pomorskiego

References

(contains a short bio) * ttp://nauka.opi.org.pl/raporty/opisy/osoby/72000/o72639.htm Ludzie nauki* * T. Esman, W. Jastrzębski, ''Pierwsze miesiące okupacji hitlerowskiej w Bydgoszczy w źródeł dokumentów niemieckich'', Bydgoszcz, 1967 * Włodzimierz Jastrzębski, ''Tzw. Bydgoska Krwawa Niedziela w Świetle Zachodnioniemieckiej Literatury Historycznej'', 1983 * Włodzimierz Jastrzębski (ed.), ''Pomorskie rody ziemiańskie w czasach nowożytnych'', MADO, * Włodzimierz Jastrzębski, ''Der Bromberger Blutsonntag – Legende und Wirklichkeit'', Westinstitut (Instytut Zachodni), Poznan 1990, * Sudziński Ryszard, Jastrzębski Włodzimierz (red.), ''Wrzesień 1939 roku i jego konsekwencje dla ziem zachodnich i północnych Drugiej Rzeczypospolitej wrzesien 1939 roku i jego konsekwencje dla ziem zachodnich i polnocnych drugiej rzeczypospolitej'' 1939 births 2024 deaths 20th-century Polish historians Polish male non-fiction writers Academic staff of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz Writers from Bydgoszcz {{Poland-historian-stub