Background
Witold Kula was born on April 18, 1916 in Warsaw, Poland, into the family of Jan Kula and Jadwiga Liwska.
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1974
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1980
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1980
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1986
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1987
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Witold Kula was born on April 18, 1916 in Warsaw, Poland, into the family of Jan Kula and Jadwiga Liwska.
Witold attended the Junior High School Yard. In 1934, he began studying history at the University of Warsaw, and then at the Free University of Warsaw. In 1939, he defended a doctorate at the University of Warsaw, promoted by Stanisław Arnold.
After the war, he started working at the University of Lodz, where he habilitated in 1947. In 1950 he took up a professorship at the University of Warsaw. He was a co-organizer and professor of the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences, in 1968-1970 he was appointed the president of the International Association of Economic History, of which he was later an honorary president, and in 1974-1983 he held the position of vice president of the International Commission on History Metrology.
Witold's first major work was "Szkice o manufakturach w Polace XVIII wieku", a 1956 study of twenty-four eighteenth-century Polish manufacturing concerns. His best-known book in English, "An Economic Theory of the Feudal System", hypothesizes that the validity of an economic proposition is limited to certain times and places. Of the numerous books by Kula, perhaps the one that garnered most attention in the United States was the volume published in 1986 as "Writing Home: Immigrants in Brazil and the United States, 1890-1891", written with two relatives. His works were quoted, among others by a prominent representative of this school and one of the most outstanding European historians of the 20th century, Ferdinand Braudel.
Witold's scientific work was marked by an interdisciplinary approach and theoretical innovation. Starting from the Marxist tradition, he managed to create original concepts of the beginnings of Polish capitalism, propose a model of peripheral feudalism in the Polish lands in the 16th-17th centuries, which was reflected especially in the "Economic theory of the feudal system", translated into many languages .
Witold Kula was married to Nina Assorodobraj-Kula, who was a sociologist and professor at the University of Warsaw. They gave birth to the son Marcin Kula.
