Aleksander Gieysztor

Polish historian

Aleksander Gieysztor (17 July 1916 – 9 February 1999) was a Polish medievalist historian.

Life

Aleksander Gieysztor was born to a Polish family in Moscow, Russia, where his father worked as a railwayman. In 1921, the family relocated to Poland and settled in Warsaw. He graduated in history from the University of Warsaw in 1937.

He was married to Irena Gieysztor née Czarnecka, a fellow historian.

The Aleksander Gieysztor Prize of the Kronenberg Foundation and the Aleksander Gieysztor Academy of Humanities are named after him.

Awards

1944: Silver Cross of the Order Virtuti Militari
1961: Legion d'Honneur
1980: The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
1994: Order of the White Eagle^[1]
1993: Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta^[2]
1999: The Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic

Books

Historia Polski (co-author; 1947)
Ze studiów nad genezą wypraw krzyżowych (1948)
Zarys nauk pomocniczych historii (1948), a textbook used by a lot of generations of Polish students
Zarys dziejów pisma łacińskiego (1972)
Zamek Królewski w Warszawie (1973)
Mitologia Słowian (1982) (wyd. Wydawnictwa Artystyczne i Filmowe, 1982 i 1986, w serii * Mitologie Świata, ISBN 83-221-0152-X).
Dzieje Mazowsza do 1526 roku (co-author Henryk Samsonowicz)
La Pologne et l’Europe au Moyen Age. Warszawa, P.W.N. Conférence au Centre Scientifique Parisien de l’Académie Polonaise des Sciences le 10 décembre 1962.
Società e cultura nell’alto Medioevo Polacco. Ossolineum 1965. Conférence à l’Académie Polonaise des Sciences à Rome le 5 novembre 1963.

References

^ M.P. 1994 nr 35 poz. 290, A 1994 President's decree on granting the Order to Geysztor, "for extraordinary actievements in educational and social activities
^ M.P. 1993 nr 17 poz. 148, A 1993 President's decree on granting the Order to Geysztor, for exceptional merit for Polish science and culture

Presidents of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Jan Dembowski (1952–1956)
Tadeusz Kotarbiński (1957–1962)
Janusz Groszkowski (1962–1971)
Włodzimierz Trzebiatowski (1971–1977)
Witold Nowacki (1977–1980)
Aleksander Gieysztor (1980–1983)
Jan Karol Kostrzewski (1984–1990)
Aleksander Gieysztor (1990–1992)
Leszek Kuźnicki (1993–1998)
Mirosław Mossakowski (1999–2001)
Andrzej Legocki (2003–2006)
Michał Kleiber (2007–2014)
Jerzy Duszyński (2015-)

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