Gerard LABUDA, Polish historian. Order of Polonia Restituta 1954; Medal (Czechoslovakia) 1968; Order of Banner of Labour; Order of the Teutonic Knights in Prussia) 1986. Polish Academy, of Sciences 1965-1968, member since 1968, member Presidium 1972; Consultative Council attached to Chair, of State Council 1986-1989; European Society of Culture since 1963; Akademie daughter Wissensehaften daughter Deutsche Demokratische Republik, Berlin since 1978.
Background
He was born in what became the Polish Corridor after World War I. He lived and died in Poznań, Poland. Labuda was born in Neuhütte/ Karthaus, West Prussia, Germany (now Nowa Huta, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Kartuzy, Poland), into a Kashubian family. He was the son of Stanislaw Labuda and Anastazja Baranowska.
Education
Poznan University and Lund University, Sweden.
Career
He was buried in Luzino - Kashubia. From 1958 onwards he edited the multi-volume Słownik Starożytności Słowiańskich (Dictionary of Slavonic Antiquities) and published historical sources. Author of more than 30 books and close to 2000 scholarly publications.
Award of the Alfred Jurzykowski Foundation (United States of America, 1983), Herder Award (Austria, 1991).
State of Poland awards (1949, 1951, 1970). Honorary Doctorates of Gdańsk University (1986), Nicolas Copernicus University (1993), Jagiellonian University (1995), Warsaw University (1997), Wrocław University(1999), and Szczecin University (2003).
Achievements
Membership
German Academy of Sciences at Berlin]
From 1950 he was a professor at Poznań University. Rector 1962–1965; from 1951 a member of the Polish Academy of Learning (PAU). President 1989–1994; from 1964 member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Personal Area Networks).
Vice-president 1984–1989.
From 1959 to 1961 director of the Western Institute (Instytut Zachodni) in Poznań and a member of the New York Academy of Sciences.
Knight of the Order of Polonia Restituta; Order of the White Eagle; Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Order of Polonia Restituta; Order of the White Eagle; Grand Cross