Aleksander Gieysztor

Aleksander Gieysztor, 1995

Aleksander Gieysztor (17 July 1916, Moscow, Russian Empire – 9 February 1999, Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish medievalist historian.

Life

Aleksander Gieysztor was born in Moscow to a Polish family. He lived in Warsaw since the age of five. He graduated in history from Warsaw University in 1937.

He was married to Irena Gieysztorowa, a fellow historian.

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

Awards

Books

   Historia Polski (współautor; 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), pierwsza znacząca praca od czasów Aleksandra Brücknera (wyd. Wydawnictwa Artystyczne i Filmowe, 1982 i 1986, w serii Mitologie Świata, ISBN 83-221-0152-X).
   Dzieje Mazowsza do 1526 roku (wraz z Henrykiem Samsonowiczem)
   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.

See also

References

  1. 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
  2. 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
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