Education
In 1954 he received his Doctor of Philosophy and six years later he habilitated.
In 1954 he received his Doctor of Philosophy and six years later he habilitated.
Tazbir is a foremost specialist in Old Polish history, and author of over 1000 publications. One of his most famous publications is Państwo bez stosów (A country without stakes) published in 1967. He has also written works popularizing history, as well as on history of literature.
In 1950 he received an Master of Arts at the Humanities Department of Warsaw University.
He has been editor-in-chief of the annual academic journal Odrodzenie i reformacja w Polsce (The Renaissance and Reformation in Poland) since 1965, and professor of the Polish Academy of Sciences Institute of History since 1966 (he was the director of the Institute from 1983 to 1990). He is also the leader of the Science Council of Polski Słownik Biograficzny (Polish Biographical Dictionary).
"In the social sciences, there is a rule that the more someone has written, the more erroneous hypotheses he has created.".
He has been a full professor since 1973 and a member of Polish Academy of Sciences (Polska Akademia Nauk) since 1989.