Background
Gierowski, Józef Andrzej was born on March 19, 1922 in Czestochowa, Poland. Son of Jozef and Stefania (Wasilewska) Gierowski.
(The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - also called the Comm...)
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - also called the Commonwealth of Both Nations, Poland-Lithuania, the Commonwealth, or, pars pro toto, simply Poland - was at first a dynastic (till 1569) and then a federal multiethnic and multireligious union of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, lasting from 1386 to 1795. At its height, in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, it became one of the largest (territorially), most populous, and politically most powerful of early modern European states, exhibiting democratic and religiously tolerant tendencies. Militarily, it stopped the encroachment of the Teutonic Knights at Grunwald (Tannenberg) in 1410, turned back the Baltic ambitions of Russia's Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible) in the Livonian Wars (1558-1582), and took a leading role capping the march of the Ottoman Empire with the famous victory at Vienna in 1683. Politically, the idiosyncratic system of Commonwealth polity refuses immediate classification, but it included an elective and limited monarchy, a bicameral Diet (Sejm) with a Senate (Senat) and a Chamber of Deputies (Izba Poselska), a noble democracy, and high levels of political decentralization. Though united in the person of the monarch and their chief representative institution, Poland and Lithuania both maintained their own armies, treasuries, and state functionaries. Wracked eventually by the Counter-Reformation, a foreign-dependent and declining agricultural economy based on the persistence of serfdom, the rising currents of absolutism and authoritarianism among its neighbors, spreading political anarchy among its ruling magnate classes, and military disasters at home (the Cossack Uprising of 1648, the Swedish Deluge of 1655-60, among others), the Commonwealth declined, disappearing entirely to the Three Partitions of Poland (1772-95) engineered by Austria, Prussia, and Russia.
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JAK DZIALAL SYSTEM, W KTORYM ZYLISMY 'Historia polityczna Polski 1944-1991', napisana przez wybitnego historyka Andrzeja Leona Sowe, jest pierwsza tak dokladna praca na temat powojennej historii politycznej Polski. Na pelny obraz trudnego okresu w dziejach kraju i narodu skladaja sie tutaj istotne fakty, a wsrod nich rowniez te dotychczas nieznane poza waskim gronem specjalistow. Autor w sposob fascynujacy obnaza mechanike systemu, w ktorym zylismy. 'Niniejsza praca nie jest klasycznym podrecznikiem akademickim' - pisze we wstepie autor. -'Traktuje ja jako autorska synteze, a rownoczesnie w miare wyczerpujace kompendium wiedzy na temat roznych instytucji politycznych.' Zgodne z tym zalozeniem Andrzej Leon Sowa, starajac sie zachowac obiektywizm w opisie sytuacji, wplata w opowiesc o naszej najnowszej historii wlasne oceny i opinie, ktore nierzadko prowokuja do dyskusji, a zawsze - do refleksji.
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Calosciowy obraz dziewietnastowiecznej Polski, jej dziejów, kultury, obyczaju. Na równi z historia polityczna ukazuje rozwój cywilizacyjny i zmiany w mentalnosci czlowieka XIX wieku oraz jego zycie codzienne. Ksiazka omawia ksztaltowanie sie nowoczesnego narodu w warunkach braku jego panstwowosci, zwracajac uwage na problemy mniejszosci etnicznych.
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Gierowski, Józef Andrzej was born on March 19, 1922 in Czestochowa, Poland. Son of Jozef and Stefania (Wasilewska) Gierowski.
Master of Arts, Jagellonian University, Cracow, Poland, 1945. Doctor of Philosophy, Jagellonian University, Cracow, Poland, 1947. Doctorate (honorary), University Uppsala, Sweden, 1983.
Doctorate (honorary), University Connecticut, 1986. Doctorate (honorary), University Wroctaw, Poland, 1992.
Assistant University Wroclaw, 1946-1954, professor, 1954-1965, prorector, 1958-1961, dean historico-philosophical faculty, 1964-1965. Professor Institute History Polish Academy of Sciences, 1953-1968. Professor modern history Jagellonian University, since 1965.
Rector, 1981-1987, director Center for Research on History and Culture of Polish Jews, 1986-1999.
(The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - also called the Comm...)
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Secretary, Polish-German Commission Historians, 1957-1963. Member Polish Parliament, 1985-1989. Member Wroclawskie Towarzystwo Naukowe (vice president 1963-1965), Polskie Towarzystwo Historyczne, Polska Akademia Umiejetnosci.
Married Danuta Wolniak, December 27, 1945. Children: Jozef Krzysztof, Elzbieta Pluta. Married Maria Przetacznik, January 19, 1985.
Married Janina Sak, July 5, 1997.