Gerard Labuda
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Gerard Labuda (born December 28, 1916 in Neuhütte/ Karthaus, West Prussia, Germany (now Nowa Huta by Kartuzy, Poland), in a Kashubian family, is a Polish historian of the Middle Ages and of the Western Slavs. He remained in what became the Polish Corridor after his birth.
Labuda from 1950 was a professor at Poznań University; rector 1962-1965; from 1951 a member of the Polish Academy of Learning (PAU); president 1989-1994; from 1964 of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN); vice-president 1984-1986; and from 1959 to 1961 director of the Western Institute (Instytut Zachodni) in Poznań.
Since 1958 he has edited the multi-volume Dictionary of Slavonic Antiquities (Słownik Starożytności Słowiańskich) and published historical sources.
[edit] Publications
- Fragmenty dziejów Słowiańszczyzny Zachodniej (Fragments of the History of Western Slavdom), vols. 1-2, 1960-64.
- Polska granica zachodnia. Tysiąc lat dziejów politycznych (Poland's Western Border: a Thousand Years of Political History), 1971.
