Jerzy Kłoczowski (born 29 December 1924 in Bogdany, Poland) - Polish historian, professor at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, former member of the Polish Senate.
During World War II, soldier of the Home Army (Armia Krajowa) and participant in the Warsaw Uprising, where he was seriously injured and lost his right hand. On leaving the military hospital in April 1945, he went to Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and then to Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, where he earned a degree and a Ph.D. (1950).
Member of the anti-communist Solidarity movement. After the fall of communism in Poland, Senator and member of the Commission for Foreign Affairs at the Senate, and a representative of the Polish Parliament at the Council of Europe.
Professor of history at the Catholic University of Lublin, Director of the Institute of East-Central Europe in Lublin,[1] Chair of the International Federation of Institutes of East-Central Europe,[2] Chair of the Polish Commission of the Comparative History of Churches[3] and Vice-Chair of the International Commission of the Comparative History of Churches,[4] Chair of the Polish Commission for UNESCO,[5] former member of the UNESCO Executive Board,[6] fellow of Collegium Invisibile,[7] the first president of the Joint Committee of UNESCO and International Committee of Historical Sciences (ICHS).
Jerzy Kłoczowski is a former lecturer at: Collège de France (1977), Merton College (Oxford University, 1980), University of Wisconsin–Madison (1985), Paris-Sorbonne University (1985–1987), Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (1989–1990), College of Europe in Natolin, Warsaw (from 1997).
Doctor honoris causa of University of Grodno (1993), Kiev-Mohyla Academy (1998), Free University of Berlin (1998) and Sorbonne (1999).
The following orders were awarded to J. Kłoczowski: Order of the White Eagle, Virtuti Militari, Cross of Merit with Swords and Cross of Valor.
Jerzy Kłoczowski is an author and editor of about 1,000 publications, e.g.: