Background
Jaroslaw Pełenski was born on April 12, 1929, in Warsaw, Poland, Poland. After the Second World War, he found himself in the western zones of occupation of Germany.
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Jaroslaw Pełenski was born on April 12, 1929, in Warsaw, Poland, Poland. After the Second World War, he found himself in the western zones of occupation of Germany.
In 1948 Jaroslaw began studying history at the University of Julius and Maximilian in Würzburg , in the years 1950-55 he continued them at the University of Ludwik and Maksymilian in Munich . He specialized in the newest history of Europe, at the same time in the medieval history of Europe, philosophy and German literature. In 1957 he defended the magisterium.
After obtaining the master's degree, he left for the United States in 1958, where until 1961 he was a lecturer of German language and literature at King's College in Wilkes-Barre , Pennsylvania. In 1961-1964 he was associated with Columbia University in New York, where in 1964 in the Institute of Russia he defended his diploma thesis Soviet Ukrainian Historiography after World War II ("Soviet Ukrainian historiography after World War II"). In the years 1964-1967 he was an assistant at the historical department of the American University in Washington, in the spring of 1968 he was a temporary assistant at the Faculty of History of Columbia University.
In the years 1967-1971 Jaroslaw was a lecturer at the University of Iowa , from 1971 to 1992 an associate professor at the university. In 1975 he was a lecturer at the Harvard University summer school. He was the beneficiary of over 25 academic grants and scholarships (Academic Awards and Post-Doctoral Fellowships), including the Kosciuszko Foundation.
In May 1990, as a visiting professor, Jaroslaw lectured for a month at the Institute of Social Sciences of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR in Lviv. After the proclamation of Ukraine's independence, his cooperation with the Ukrainian academic community in the country began. In November 1992 he was elected as a foreign member of the actual (academic) of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. From 1993, he was the director of the Institute of European Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
In the years 1984-1987, together with Bohdan Osadczuk, he edited Widnow magazine.
In the summer of 1991 he became a member of the editorial board of Przegląd Wschodni in Warsaw, in 1993 a member of the editorial office of Ucrain mediaevalis issued in Kiev (Medieval Ukraine).
