All Topics  
University of Warsaw

 

 
   Email Print
   Bookmark   Link
 

 

University of Warsaw
 
 
  Topics University of Warsaw Topic Home

University of Warsaw is the largest university
University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education....
 in Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
, ranked by the Times Higher Education Supplement as the second best Polish university among the world top 500 in 2006.

Royal University of Warsaw was established in 1816, when the partitions of Poland separated Warsaw
Warsaw

Warsaw is the Capital and World's largest cities of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River roughly from both the Baltic Sea coast and the Carpathian Mountains....
 from the oldest and most influential Polish academic center, in Kraków
Kraków

Krak?w , in English also spelled Krakow or Cracow , is one of the largest and oldest cities in Poland, with a population of 756,336 in 2007 ....
. The first to be established in Congress Poland
Congress Poland

Congress Poland [], officially and formally Kingdom of Poland and informally known as Russian Poland was a constitutional personal union of the Russian Empire created in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna, replaced by the Central Powers in 1915 with the Kingdom of Poland ....
 were the Law School and the Medical School.






Discussion
Ask a question about 'University of Warsaw'
Start a new discussion about 'University of Warsaw'
Answer questions from other users
Full Discussion Forum



Encyclopedia


University of Warsaw is the largest university
University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education....
 in Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
, ranked by the Times Higher Education Supplement as the second best Polish university among the world top 500 in 2006.

History


1816-31

The Royal University of Warsaw was established in 1816, when the partitions of Poland separated Warsaw
Warsaw

Warsaw is the Capital and World's largest cities of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River roughly from both the Baltic Sea coast and the Carpathian Mountains....
 from the oldest and most influential Polish academic center, in Kraków
Kraków

Krak?w , in English also spelled Krakow or Cracow , is one of the largest and oldest cities in Poland, with a population of 756,336 in 2007 ....
. The first to be established in Congress Poland
Congress Poland

Congress Poland [], officially and formally Kingdom of Poland and informally known as Russian Poland was a constitutional personal union of the Russian Empire created in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna, replaced by the Central Powers in 1915 with the Kingdom of Poland ....
 were the Law School and the Medical School. In 1816 Tsar
Tsar

Tsar or czar , occasionally spelled csar or tzar in English language, is a slavs term designating certain monarchs.Originally, the title Czar meant Emperor in the European medieval sense of the term, that is, a ruler who has the same rank as a Ancient Rome or Byzantine emperor due to recognition by another emperor or...
 Alexander I
Alexander I of Russia

Alexander I of Russia , also known as Alexander the Blessed served as Tsar of Russia from 23 March 1801 to 1 December 1825 and Ruler of Poland from 1815 to 1825, as well as the first Russian Grand Duke of Finland....
 permitted the Polish authorities to create a university, comprising five departments: Law and Administration, Medicine, Philosophy, Theology, and Art and Humanities. The university soon grew to 800 students and 50 professors.

After most of the students and professors took part in the November 1830 Uprising the university was closed down.

1857-69

After the Crimean War
Crimean War

The Crimean War, also known in Russia as the Oriental War was fought between the Russian Empire on one side and an alliance of France, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Kingdom of Sardinia, and the Ottoman Empire on the other....
, Russia entered a brief period of liberalization, the "Post-Sevastopol Thaw." Permission was given to create a Polish medical and surgical college (Akademia Medyko-Chirurgiczna) in Warsaw. In 1862 departments of Law and Administration, Philology and History, and Mathematics and Physics were opened. The newly-established college gained importance and was soon renamed the "Main School" (Szkola Glówna). However, after the January 1863 Uprising the liberal period ended and all Polish-language
Polish language

Polish , an official language of Poland, has the largest number of speakers of any West Slavic languages. Polish-speakers use the language in a uniform manner through most of Poland, and it has a regular orthography....
 schools were closed again. During its short existence, the Main School educated over 3,000 students, many of whom became the backbone of Polish intelligentsia
Intelligentsia

The intelligentsia is a social class of people engaged in complex mental and creative labor directed to the development and dissemination of culture, encompassing intellectuals and social groups close to them ....
.

1870-1915

The Main School was replaced with a Russian-language "Imperial University of Warsaw". Its purpose was to provide education for the Russian military garrison of Warsaw, the majority of students (up to 70% out of an average of 1 500 to 2 000 students) were Poles. The tsarist authorities believed that the Russian university would become a perfect way to Russify Polish society and spent significant a significant sum on building a new university campus. However, various underground organizations soon started to grow and the students became their leaders in Warsaw. Most notable of these groups (the supporters of Polish revival and the socialists
Socialism

Socialism refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating public or state ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods, and a society characterized by equality for all individuals, with a fair or Egalitarianism method of compensation....
) joined the ranks of the 1905 Revolution. Afterwards a boycott
Boycott

A boycott is a form of consumer activism involving the act of voluntarily abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with someone or some other organization as an expression of protest, usually of politics reasons....
 of Russian educational facilities was proclaimed and the number of Polish students dropped to below 10%. Most of the students who wanted to continue their education left for Galicia
Galicia (Central Europe)

Galicia is a historical region in East Central Europe, currently divided between Poland and Ukraine, named after Ukra?ni?n city of Halych.The nucleus of historic Galicia is formed of three regions of western Ukraine: Lvivska oblast, Ternopilska oblast and Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast....
 and Western Europe.

After the fall of the January Rising (1863-1864) and the authorities' decision to convert the Main School into a Russian-language university, which functioned under the name of Imperial University for 46 year, there were two times when the question of moving the university into Russia was considered. During the 1905-1907 revolution, such a proposal was made by some of the professors, in the face of a boycott of the university by Polish students. Talks on that subject were conducted with a number of Russian cities, including Voronezh
Voronezh

Voronezh is a large types of inhabited localities in Russia in southwestern Russia, not far from Ukraine. It is located either side of the Voronezh River, twelve kilometers away from where it flows into the Don River, Russia....
 and Saratov
Saratov

Saratov is a major types of inhabited localities in Russia in southern Russia. It is the administrative center of Saratov Oblast and a major port on the Volga River....
. The Russian government finally decided to keep a university in Warsaw, but as a result of the boycott, the university was Russian not only in the sense of the language used, but also of the nationality of its professors and students.

For the second time the question emerged during the First World War, when the military and political situation forced the Russian authorities to evacuate. Beginning from the autumn of 1915, there were two Universities of Warsaw: one Polish, in Warsaw, and another Russian, in Rostov-on-Don
Rostov-on-Don

Rostov-on-Don is the types of inhabited localities in Russia and the administrative center of Rostov Oblast and the Southern Federal District of Russia, located on the Don River , just 46 km from the Sea of Azov....
 which functioned until 1917. On 5 May 1917 the Russian Provisional Government decided to close the University of Warsaw. The decision took effect on 1 July 1917; on the same day, the University of the Don, now called Rostov State University, was inaugurated.

1915-18

During the World War I Warsaw was seized by Germany in 1915. In order to win the Poles for their case and secure the Polish area behind the front lines the governments of Germany and Austria-Hungary
Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary, also known as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Dual Monarchy or the Kaiserlich und k?niglich Monarchy was a state in Central Europe ruled by the House of Habsburg, constitutionally a personal union between the crowns of the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary....
 allowed for a certain liberalization of life in Poland. In accordance with the concept of Mitteleuropa
Mitteleuropa

Mitteleuropa is a German language term equal to Central Europe. The St?ndiger Ausschuss f?r geographische Namen refers to the territory covered by the modern states of:...
, German military authorities permitted several Polish social and educational societies to be recreated. One of these was Warsaw University. The Polish language was reintroduced, and the professors were allowed to return to work. In order not to let the Polish patriotic movement out of control the number of lecturers was kept low (usually not more than 50), but there were no limits on the number of students. Until 1918 their number rose from a mere 1,000 to over 4,500.

1918-39

After Poland regained its independence in 1918, the University of Warsaw began to grow very quickly. It was reformed; all the important posts (the rector
Rector

The word rector has a number of different meanings, but all of them indicate an academic, religious or political administrator.The word "rector" also appears in many modern languages, such as Albanian, Dutch language, Spanish language, Catalan language and Romanian language....
, senate
Senate

A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a legislature or Parliament. There have been many such bodies in history, the first of which was the Roman Senate....
, deans and councils) became democratically elected, and the state spent considerable amounts of money to modernize and equip it. Many professors returned from exile and cooperated in the effort. By the late 1920s the level of education in Warsaw had reached that of western Europe.

By the beginning of the 1930s the University of Warsaw had become the largest university in Poland, with over 250 lecturers and 10,000 students. However, the financial problems of the newly-reborn state did not allow for free education, and students had to pay a tuition fee
Tuition

Tuition means "instruction" or "teaching." In American English, the term "tuition" is often used to refer to a fee charged for educational instruction; especially at a formal institution of learning or by a private tutor usually in the form of one-to-one tuition....
 for their studies (an average monthly salary for a year). Also, the number of scholarship
Scholarship

A scholarship is an award of access to an institution, or a Student financial aid award for a student to further education. Scholarships are awarded on various criteria usually reflecting the values and purposes of the donor or founder of the award....
s was very limited, and only approximately 3% of students were able to get one. Despite these economic problems, the University of Warsaw grew rapidly. New departments
Faculty (university)

A faculty is a division within a university comprising one subject area, or a number of related subject areas . The concept of a university with different faculties for different subjects dates back to Al-Azhar University, which had individual faculties for a Madrasah and theological seminary, Sharia and Fiqh, Arabic grammar, Islamic astronom...
 were opened, and the main campus
Campus

A campus is traditionally the land on which a college or university and related institutional buildings are situated. Usually a campus includes library, lecture halls, residence halls and park-like settings....
 was expanded.

After the death of Józef Pilsudski
Józef Pilsudski

]]In 1892 Pilsudski returned from exile. In 1893 he joined the Polish Socialist Party and helped organize its Lithuanian branch. Initially he sided with the Socialists' more radical wing, but despite the socialist movement's ostensible internationalism he remained a Polish nationalist....
 the senate of the University of Warsaw changed its name to "Józef Pilsudski University of Warsaw" (Uniwersytet Warszawski im. Józefa Pilsudskiego). A time of troubles began for academics in Poland as rightist students proceeded to organize
Community organizing

Community organizing is a process by which people living in proximity to each other are brought together in an organization to act in their common self-interest....
 anti-Semitic demonstrations and riots - the Sanacja
Sanacja

Sanacja was a coalition political movement in the interbellum Second Polish Republic. It was created in 1926 by J?zef Pilsudski as a broad movement to support the "moral sanation" of the Polish body politic before and after the May Coup d'Etat that brought Pilsudski to virtually dictatorial power....
 government reacted to limit the autonomy of the universities. The government was forced to back down in 1937 and the right-wing followers of the nationalist
Nationalism

Nationalism refers to an ideology, a feeling, a form of culture, or a social movement that focuses on the nation. While there is significant debate over the historical origins of nations, nearly all Expert accept that nationalism, at least as an ideology and social movement, is a Modernity phenomenon originating in Europe....
 parties were peacefully pacified, but professors and students remained divided for the rest of the 1930s as the system of segregated seating for Jewish students, known as ghetto benches
Ghetto benches

Ghetto benches or bench Ghetto was a form of official segregation in the seating of students, introduced in Second Polish Republic's universities beginning in 1935 at Lwow Polytechnic....
, was implemented.

1939-44

For more details on this period see: Underground Education in Poland During World War II


After the Polish Defensive War
Invasion of Poland (1939)

The Invasion of Poland in 1939 precipitated World War II. It was carried out by Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak invasion of Poland contingent....
 of 1939 the German authorities of the General Gouvernment closed all the institutions of higher education in Poland. The equipment and most of the laboratories were taken to Germany and divided amongst the German universities
List of universities in Germany

This is a list of the roundabout 70 university in Germany. The list also includes the 13 German "universities of technology" which have official and full university status, but which usually focus on education in the natural sciences rather than covering the whole spectrum of academic disciplines....
 while the main campus of the University of Warsaw was turned into military barracks.

German racist
Racism

Racism, by its simplest definition is the belief that Race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race....
 theories assumed that no education of Poles was needed and the whole nation was to be turned into uneducated serf
SERF

A spin-exchange relaxation-free magnetometer achieves very high magnetic field sensitivity by monitoring a high density vapor of alkali metal atoms precessing in a near-zero magnetic field....
s of the German race. Education in Polish was banned and punished with death. However, many professors organized the so-called "Secret University of Warsaw" (Tajny Uniwersytet Warszawski). The lectures were held in small groups in private apartments and the attendants were constantly risking discovery and death. However, the net of underground faculties spread rapidly and by 1944 there were more than 300 lecturers and 3,500 students at various courses.

Most of the students took part in the Warsaw Uprising
Warsaw Uprising

The Warsaw Uprising was a struggle by the Armia Krajowa to liberate Warsaw from Nazi Germany occupation during World War II. The Uprising began on 1 August 1944, as part of a nationwide rebellion, Operation Tempest....
 as the soldiers of Armia Krajowa
Armia Krajowa

The Armia Krajowa , abbreviated "AK", was the dominant Polish resistance movement in World War II Nazi Germany-History of Poland . It was formed in February 1942 from the Zwiazek Walki Zbrojnej and over the next two years absorbed most other Polish underground forces....
 and Szare Szeregi
Szare Szeregi

Grey Ranks was a codename for the underground Polish Scouting Association during World War II. The organisation was created on September 27, 1939, actively resisted and fought German occupation until January 18, 1945 in Warsaw and largely contributed to all resistance actions of the Polish Underground State and some of its members were...
. The German-held campus of the University was turned into a well-fortified area with bunkers and machine gun
Machine gun

A machine gun is a Automatic firearm mounted or portable firearm, usually designed to fire List of rifle cartridgess in quick succession from an Belt or large-capacity Magazine , typically at a rate of several hundred rounds per minute....
 nests. Also, it was located close to the buildings occupied by the German garrison of Warsaw. Heavy fights for the campus started on the first day of the Uprising, but the partisans were not able to break through the fortified gates. Several assaults were bloodily repelled and the campus remained in German hands until the end of the fights.

During the uprising and the occupation 63 professors were killed, either during fights or as an effect of German policy of extermination of Polish inteligentsia. The University lost 60% of its buildings during the fighting in 1944. Up to 80% of the collections (including priceless works of art and books donated to the University) were either destroyed or transported to Germany, never to return.

1945-56

After World War II it was not clear whether the university would be restored or whether Warsaw itself would be rebuilt. However, many professors who had survived the war returned to Poland and began organizing the university from scratch. In December 1945, lectures resumed for almost 4,000 students in the ruins of the campus, and the buildings were gradually rebuilt. The lost collections were compensated with several former German collections from territories awarded to Poland
Territorial changes of Poland after World War II

The territorial changes of Poland after World War II were very extensive.The Second World War is usually dated from the German invasion of Poland, 1 September 1939....
, among them large parts of the library of count Schaffgotsch, the biggest private library of Germany, the library of the Gymnasium Carolineum in Nysa, three libraries in Legnica (among them the Bibliotheka Rudolphina) and several smaller collections from Walbrzych, Zagan, Staniszow, Zlotoryja, Luban, Ksiaz, Olesnicka, Kaliningrad, Szczecin, Stargard Szczecinski and Markowo. Until the late 1940s the university remained relatively independent. However, soon the communist
Communism

Communism is a socioeconomic structure and political ideology that promotes the establishment of an egalitarianism, classlessness, stateless society based on common ownership and control of the means of production and property in general....
 authorities of Poland started to impose controls and the period of Stalinism
Stalinism

File:Joseph Stalin.jpgStalinism is a term that purportedly describes the political system of the Soviet Union under the leadership of Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union from 1929?1953....
 started. Many professors were arrested by the Urzad Bezpieczenstwa (Secret Police), the books were censored
Censorship

Censorship is the suppression of freedom of speech or deletion of communicative material which may be considered objectionable, harmful or sensitive, as determined by a censor....
 and ideological criteria in employment of new lecturers and admission of students were introduced. On the other hand, education in Poland became free of charge and the number of young people to receive the state scholarship
Scholarship

A scholarship is an award of access to an institution, or a Student financial aid award for a student to further education. Scholarships are awarded on various criteria usually reflecting the values and purposes of the donor or founder of the award....
s reached 60% of all the students.

1956-89


After Wladyslaw Gomulka
Wladyslaw Gomulka

Wladyslaw Gomulka was a Poland Communism leader. He was a member of the Communist Party of Poland starting in 1926.In 1934 Gomulka went to Moscow, where he lived for a year....
 rose to power in Poland in 1956 a brief period of liberalization ensued, though communist ideology still played a major role in most faculties (especially in such faculties as history, law, economics and political science). International cooperation was resumed and the level of education rose, but the government soon started to suppress freedom of thought, which led to increasing unrest among the students. An anti-Semitic and anti-democratic campaign in 1968 led to an outbreak of student demonstrations in Warsaw, which were brutally crushed by the police and militia groups of ordinary workers. As a result, a large number of students and professors were expelled from the university, while some were drafted into the army. Most professors of Jewish descent were forced to emigrate, while the leaders of the democratic movement, Jacek Kuron
Jacek Kuron

Jacek Jan Kuron was one of the democratic leaders of opposition in the People's Republic of Poland. Kuron was a prominent Polish social and political figure; educator and historian; an activist of the Polish Scouting Association; co-founder of the Workers' Defence Committee; twice a Minister of Labour and Social Policy....
 and Karol Modzelewski
Karol Modzelewski

Karol Modzelewski is a Poland historian, writer and politician. Professor at the University of Wroclaw and the University of Warsaw, he was a member of the Polish United Workers Party but was expelled from it in 1964 for opposition to some policies of the party....
, were sentenced to 3.5 years in prison.

Nevertheless, the University remained the centre of free thought and education. What professors could not say during lectures, they expressed during informal meetings with their students. Many of them became leaders and members of the Solidarity
Solidarity

Solidarity is a Poland trade union federation founded in September 1980 at the Gdansk Shipyard, and originally led by Lech Walesa.Solidarity was the first non-communist trade union in a communist country....
 movement and other societies of the democratic opposition. The scientists working at the University of Warsaw were also among the most prominent printers of books forbidden by censorship
Censorship

Censorship is the suppression of freedom of speech or deletion of communicative material which may be considered objectionable, harmful or sensitive, as determined by a censor....
.

Campus

The main campus
Campus

A campus is traditionally the land on which a college or university and related institutional buildings are situated. Usually a campus includes library, lecture halls, residence halls and park-like settings....
 of the University of Warsaw is in downtown Warsaw, in Krakowskie Przedmiescie
Krakowskie Przedmiescie

Krakowskie Przedmiescie, in Warsaw is one of the most impressive and prestigious streets of Warsaw.It is the northernmost part of the Royal Route, and links the Star?wka and Royal Castle, Warsaw with some of the most notable institutions in Warsaw, including ? proceeding southward ? the Presidential Palace, Warsaw, Warsaw University, and t...
. It comprises several historic palace
Palace

A palace is a grand residence, especially a royal residence or the home of a head of state or some other high-ranking dignitary, such as a bishop or archbishop....
s, most of which had been nationalized in the 19th century. The chief buildings include:
  • Kazimierzowski Palace (Palac Kazimierzowski) - the seat of the rector
    Rector

    The word rector has a number of different meanings, but all of them indicate an academic, religious or political administrator.The word "rector" also appears in many modern languages, such as Albanian, Dutch language, Spanish language, Catalan language and Romanian language....
     and the senate
    Senate

    A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a legislature or Parliament. There have been many such bodies in history, the first of which was the Roman Senate....
    ;
  • the Old Library (Stary BUW) - since recent refurbishment, a secondary lecture building;
  • the Main School (Szkola Glówna) - former seat of the Main School until the January 1863 Uprising, later the faculty of biology; now, since its refurbishment, the seat of the institute of archaeology;
  • Auditorium Maximum - the main lecture hall, with seats for several hundred students.


There is also the New Library (Nowy BUW) - an impressive new building with spectacular roof gardens as well as several smaller campuses elsewhere in the city, most notably the physical and chemical center in Banacha
Stefan Banach

Stefan Banach was a Polish mathematician who worked in Second Polish Republic and in Soviet Ukraine.A self-taught mathematics Child prodigy, Banach was the founder of modern functional analysis and a founder of the Lw?w School of Mathematics....
 Street (ulica Banacha), where the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Mechanics (MIM) is located.

The University of Warsaw owns a total of 126 buildings. Further construction and a vigorous renovation program are underway at the main campus
Campus

A campus is traditionally the land on which a college or university and related institutional buildings are situated. Usually a campus includes library, lecture halls, residence halls and park-like settings....
.

Departments

  1. Applied Linguistics and East-Slavonic Philology
  2. Applied Social Sciences and Resocialization
  3. Biology
  4. Chemistry
  5. Economic Sciences
  6. Education
  7. Geography and Regional Studies
  8. Geology
  9. History
  10. Journalism and Political Science
  11. Law and Administration
  12. Management
  13. Mathematics, Informatics, and Mechanics
  14. Modern Languages
  15. Oriental Studies
  16. Philosophy and Sociology
  17. Physics
  18. Polish Studies
  19. Psychology and


Other institutes

  • American Studies Center
  • British Studies Centre
  • Centre de Civilisation Francaise et d'Etudes Francophones
    French language

    French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
     aupres de l`Universite de Varsovie
  • Centre for Archaeological Research at Novae
  • Centre for Environmental Study
  • Centre for Europe
  • Centre for European Regional and Local Studies (EUROREG)
  • Centre for Foreign Language Teaching
  • Centre for Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in the Humanities
  • Centre for Latin-American
    Latin America

    Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages ? particularly Spanish language and Portuguese language, and variably French language ? are primarily spoken....
     Studies (CESLA)
  • Centre for Open Multimedia Education
  • Centre for the Study of Classical Tradition in Poland and East-Central Europe
  • Centre of Studies in Territorial Self-Government and Local Development
  • Chaire UNESCO du Developpement Durable de l`Universite de Vaersovie
  • Comite Polonais de l`Alliance Francais
  • Erasmus of Rotterdam Chair
  • Heavy Ion
    Heavy ion

    Heavy ion refers to an ion atom which is usually heavier than helium. Heavy-ion physics is devoted to the study of extremely hot nuclear matter and the collective effects appearing in such systems, differing from particle physics, which studies the interactions between elementary particles....
     Laboratory
  • Individual Inter-faculty Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences
  • Institute of Americas and Europe
  • Institute of International Relations - host of GMAPIR
    GMAPIR

    GMAPIR stands for Graduate Master of Arts Program in International Relations. The Program is situated in Warsaw the capital of Poland and is provided by University of Warsaw....
  • Inter-Faculty Institute for Social Studies
  • Inter-faculty Study Programme in Environmental Protection
  • Interdisciplinary Centre for Behavioural Genetics
  • Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling
  • Physical Education and Sports Centre
  • Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology
  • University Centre for Technology Transfer
  • University College of English Language
    English language

    English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
     Teacher Education
  • University College of French Language
    French language

    French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
     Teacher Education
  • University College of German Language
    German language

    German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
     Teacher Education
  • University of Warsaw for Foreign Language Teacher Training and European Education


Institutions

  • Academic Radio Kampus
  • Institute of Information Science and Book Studies
  • The Institute of Polish Language and Culture 'Polonicum'
  • University of Warsaw Libraries


Notable alumni

  • Jerzy Andrzejewski
    Jerzy Andrzejewski

    Jerzy Andrzejewski was a prolific Polish author. In 1976 he was one of the founding members of the intellectual opposition group KOR . Later, Andrzejewski was a strong supporter of Poland's anti-Communist Solidarity movement....
     (1909-1983), author
  • Krzysztof Kamil Baczynski
    Krzysztof Kamil Baczynski

    Krzysztof Kamil Baczynski, January 22, 1921 ? August 4, 1944) - Poland poet and Home Army soldier, one of the most renowned authors of Generation of Columbuses - young generation of Polish poetry, many of whom perished in the Warsaw Uprising....
     (1921-1944), poet
  • Menachem Begin
    Menachem Begin

    was the sixth Prime Minister of Israel. Before the establishment of the state, he was the leader of the Irgun, playing a central role in Jewish resistance to the British Mandate of Palestine....
     (1913-1992), Zionist, prime minister of Israel
    Israel

    Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
    , Nobel Peace Prize
    Nobel Peace Prize

    The Nobel Peace Prize is one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. According to Nobel's will , the Peace Prize should be awarded "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for :wikt:fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the h...
     winner
  • Tadeusz Borowski
    Tadeusz Borowski

    Tadeusz Borowski was a Poland writer and journalist, and a Auschwitz concentration camp and Dachau concentration camp survivor. His books are recognized as classics of Polish post-war literature and had much influence in Central European society....
     (1922-1951), poet and writer
  • Kazimierz Brandys (1916-2000), writer
  • Marian Brandys
    Marian Brandys

    Marian Brandys was a Polish writer and screenwriter born in Wiesbaden.External links...
     (1912-1998), writer and journalist
  • Fryderyk Chopin
    Frédéric Chopin

    Fr?d?ric Chopin was a composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic music period. He is widely regarded as the greatest Polish composer, and one of music's greatest tone poets....
     (1810-1849), pianist and composer
  • Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz
    Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz

    is a Polish politician. He was a member of the post-communist Democratic Left Alliance, the Prime Minister of Poland from 1996 to Autumn 1997, the Politics of Poland in the governments of Leszek Miller and Marek Belka , the Marszalek sejmu of the Sejm in January - October 2005 and the leftist candidate in the Polish presidential election,...
     (b. 1950), politician, former Prime Minister of Poland
  • Adam Doboszynski (1904-1949), politician and writer
  • Joseph Epstein (1911-1944), communist leader of French resistance
  • Bronislaw Geremek
    Bronislaw Geremek

    Professor Bronislaw Geremek , was a Poland Social history and politician....
     (1932-2008), historian and politician
  • Witold Gombrowicz
    Witold Gombrowicz

    Witold Marian Gombrowicz was a Poland novelist and dramatist. His works are characterized by deep psychological analysis, a certain sense of paradox and an absurd, anti-nationalist flavor....
     (1904-1969), writer
  • Jan T. Gross
    Jan T. Gross

    Jan Tomasz Gross is a Polish American historian and sociologist. He is the Norman B. Tomlinson '16 and '48 Professor of War and Society and Professor of History at Princeton University....
     (b. 1947), historian and writer, Princeton University
    Princeton University

    Princeton University is a private university university located in Princeton, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League and has the largest per-student Financial endowment in the world....
     professor
  • Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski
    Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski

    Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski was a Polish essayist and thinker. He is best known for writing a personal account of life in the Soviet gulag - A World Apart ....
     (1919-2000), journalist, writer and GULag
    Gulag

    The Gulag was the government agency that administered the penal labor camps of the Soviet Union. Gulag is the Russian acronym for The Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps and Colonies of the NKVD....
     survivor
  • Leonid Hurwicz
    Leonid Hurwicz

    Leonid "Leo" Hurwicz was an United States economist and mathematician of Poles and Jewish people descent. He originated incentive compatibility and mechanism design, which show how desired outcomes are achieved in economics, social science and political science....
     (b. 1917), Nobel Prize in Economics
    Nobel Prize in Economics

    The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially named The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel , is an award for outstanding contributions in the field of economics and is generally considered one of the most prestigious awards in that field....
     winner
  • Czeslaw Janczarski
    Czeslaw Janczarski

    Czeslaw Janczarski in the village of Hruszwica, Volhynia ? May 19, 1971 in Warsaw) was a Poland writer of kids' books as well as a translator from the Russian language....
     (1911-1971), poet and Russian literature
    Russian literature

    This article is about literature from Russia. For the song by Max?mo Park, see Our Earthly Pleasures. Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia or its ?migr?s, and to the Russian language literature of several independent nations once a part of what was historically Russia or the Soviet Union....
     translator
  • Lech Kaczynski
    Lech Kaczynski

    , is the President of Poland of the Poland, a politician of the conservatism party Law and Justice . Kaczynski served as Mayor of Warsaw from 2002 until 22 December 2005, the day before his presidential inauguration....
     (b. 1949), right-wing politician, former president of Warsaw
    Warsaw

    Warsaw is the Capital and World's largest cities of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River roughly from both the Baltic Sea coast and the Carpathian Mountains....
    , current President
    President

    President is a title held by many leaders of organizations, company, trade unions, university, and country. Etymology, a "president" is one who Wiktionary:Preside, who sits in leadership ....
     of Poland
    Poland

    Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
  • Aleksander Kaminski
    Aleksander Kaminski

    Aleksander Kaminski codename: Kamyk, Dabrowski, J. Dabrowski, Fabrykant, Faktor, Juliusz G?recki, Hubert, Kazmierczak was a Poland pedagogue, form tutor, author of Polish Cub Scout and Brownies method, writer, historian, Scoutmaster , and soldier of the Armia Krajowa in the ranks of the Szare Szeregi during the Second World War....
     (1903-1978), writer and one of the leaders of the Polish Scouting
    Zwiazek Harcerstwa Polskiego

    Zwiazek Harcerstwa Polskiego is the coeducational Poland Scouting organization recognized by the World Organization of the Scout Movement and the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts....
  • Ryszard Kapuscinski
    Ryszard Kapuscinski

    Ryszard Kapuscinski was a popular Poland journalist, author, publicist, photographer and Poetry, at both home and abroad. Born in Pinsk, a city formerly located in the Kresy of the Second Polish Republic, and now belonging to Belarus, Kapuscinski is generally thought of as the leading Polish journalist of his time....
     (1932-2007), writer and journalist
  • Mieczyslaw Karlowicz
    Mieczyslaw Karlowicz

    File:Mieczyslaw Karlowicz.PNGMieczyslaw Karlowicz was a Poland composer and conducting. He was born in Vishneva , and his father Jan was a Polish historian and musician....
     (1876-1909), composer
  • Jan Karski
    Jan Karski

    Jan Karski , was a Poland World War II Polish resistance fighter and scholar at Georgetown University. In 1942 and 1943 Karski reported to the Polish government in exile and the Western Allies on the situation in Poland, especially the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto and the extermination camps....
     (1914-2000), Polish resistance fighter
  • Alpha Oumar Konaré
    Alpha Oumar Konaré

    Alpha Oumar Konar? was the President of Mali for two five-year terms , and was Chairperson of the African Union Commission from 2003 to 2008....
    , (b. 1946), Malian president
  • Janusz Korwin-Mikke
    Janusz Korwin-Mikke

    Janusz Korwin-Mikke is a Poland conservative liberalism political commentator and politician.He studied at the Faculty of Mathematics and Faculty of Philosophy of the Warsaw University....
     (b. 1942), right-wing, conservative-liberal politician and journalist
  • Marek Kotanski
    Marek Kotanski

    Marek Kotanski, was a Poland charity worker and campaigner on behalf of disadvantaged people, including the homeless and those with HIV. He died in a car accident in Nowy Dwor Mazowiecki, near Warsaw....
     (1942-2002), psychologist and streetworker
  • Jacek Kuron
    Jacek Kuron

    Jacek Jan Kuron was one of the democratic leaders of opposition in the People's Republic of Poland. Kuron was a prominent Polish social and political figure; educator and historian; an activist of the Polish Scouting Association; co-founder of the Workers' Defence Committee; twice a Minister of Labour and Social Policy....
     (1934-2004), historian, author, social worker and politician
  • Jan Józef Lipski
    Jan Józef Lipski

    Jan J?zef Lipski was a Poland critic and literature historian, socialist politician, and notable freemasonry . As a soldier of the Home Army , he fought in the Warsaw Uprising....
     (1926-1991), literature historian, politician
  • Jerzy Lojek
    Jerzy Lojek

    Jerzy Lojek was a Polish historian and opposition activist in People's Republic of Poland. He specialized in European, Polish and Russian history of 17th to 20h centuries....
     (1932-1986), historian and writer
  • Tadeusz Mazowiecki
    Tadeusz Mazowiecki

    Tadeusz Mazowiecki is a Poland author, journalist, social worker and politician, formerly one of the leaders of the Solidarity movement, and the first List of Polish Prime Ministers after World War II....
     (b. 1927), author, social worker, journalist, former Prime Minister of Poland
  • Ludmila Marjanska (b. 1923), poet and English literature
    English literature

    The term English literature refers to literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; Joseph Conrad was Polish, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, Salman Rushdie is Indian, V.S....
     translator
  • Adam Michnik
    Adam Michnik

    Adam Michnik is the editor-in-chief of Gazeta Wyborcza, where he sometimes writes under the pen-names of Andrzej Zagozda or Andrzej Jagodzinski....
     (b. 1946), journalist
  • Karol Modzelewski
    Karol Modzelewski

    Karol Modzelewski is a Poland historian, writer and politician. Professor at the University of Wroclaw and the University of Warsaw, he was a member of the Polish United Workers Party but was expelled from it in 1964 for opposition to some policies of the party....
     (b. 1937), historian and politician
  • Jan Olszewski
    Jan Olszewski

    Jan Ferdynand Olszewski is a Poland lawyer and political figure. He is best known for serving as Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland from 1991 to 1992....
     (b. 1930), lawyer and politician, former Prime Minister of Poland
  • Janusz Onyszkiewicz
    Janusz Onyszkiewicz

    Janusz Onyszkiewicz is a Poland mathematician, alpinist, politician and a vice-president of the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee ....
     (b. 1937), politician
  • Boleslaw Piasecki
    Boleslaw Piasecki

    File:Boleslaw Piasecki.jpgBoleslaw Bogdan Piasecki was a Poland politician and writer.In Second Polish Republic he was one of the more prominent nationalist politicians, playing an important role in the leadership of Ob?z Narodowo-Radykalny....
     (1915-1979), extreme right-wing politician
  • Bohdan Paczynski
    Bohdan Paczynski

    Bohdan Paczynski or Bohdan Paczynski was a Poland astronomer, a leading scientist in theory of the stellar evolution of stars, accretion discs and gamma ray bursts....
     (1940-2007), astronomer
  • Longin Pastusiak
    Longin Pastusiak

    Longin Pastusiak is a Poland politician....
     (b.1935), politician
  • Andrew Paulukiewichz
    Andrew Paulukiewichz

    Andrew Paulukiewichz is a micro-biologist from Poland.He was raised in Krak?w and has a small laboratory in this city. He graduated from Warsaw University in 1981 and has since then dedicated much of his time to the study of arachnid and other small creatures anatomies, and is at this time working on a book on the subject of arachnid circ...
     (1958) Microbiologist
  • Krzysztof Piesiewicz
    Krzysztof Piesiewicz

    Krzysztof Marek Piesiewicz is a Poland lawyer, screenwriter, and politician, who is currently a member of the Sejm and head of the Ruch Spoleczny or Social Movement Party....
     (b. 1945), lawyer and screenwriter
  • Boleslaw Prus
    Boleslaw Prus

    Boleslaw Prus , whose actual name was Aleksander Glowacki, was a Poland journalist and novelist who is known especially for his novels The Doll and Pharaoh ....
     (1847-1912), writer
  • Józef Rotblat (1908-2005), physicist, Nobel Peace Prize
    Nobel Peace Prize

    The Nobel Peace Prize is one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. According to Nobel's will , the Peace Prize should be awarded "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for :wikt:fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the h...
     winner
  • Stanislaw Sedlaczek
    Stanislaw Sedlaczek

    Stanislaw Sedlaczek was a Poland pedagogue and harcmistrz. One of the organizers of pre-war Sok?l troops among university students, during the World War II he founded the underground resistance scouting organisation "Hufce Polskie"....
     (1892-1941), social worker and one of the leaders of Zwiazek Harcerstwa Polskiego
    Zwiazek Harcerstwa Polskiego

    Zwiazek Harcerstwa Polskiego is the coeducational Poland Scouting organization recognized by the World Organization of the Scout Movement and the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts....
  • Yitzhak Shamir
    Yitzhak Shamir

    was Prime Minister of Israel of Israel from 1983 to 1984 and again from 1986 to 1992....
     (b. 1915) Prime Minister of Israel
    Prime Minister of Israel

    The Prime Minister of Israel is the head of the Israeli government and is the most powerful political officer in Israel . He or she wields executive power in the country, and has an official residence in Jerusalem....
  • Leonid Shirkov (1980-2007), Russian politician and philosopher
  • Dmitry Strelnikoff
    Dmitry Strelnikoff

    Dmitry Aleksandrovich Strelnikoff ; born in Russia, in the borders of USSR, in 1969; is a Russian writer, biologist and a journalist for television, radio and the press, living in Poland; the graduate of The Correspondence Course of the Mathematic on the M.V....
     (b. 1969), Russian writer, biologist and a journalist for television, radio and the press
  • Alfred Tarski
    Alfred Tarski

    Alfred Tarski was a Poles logician and mathematician. Educated in the Warsaw School of Mathematics and philosophy, he emigrated to the USA in 1939, and taught and did research in mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1942 until his death....
     (1902-1982), logician and mathematician
  • Julian Tuwim
    Julian Tuwim

    Julian Tuwim ; was one of the greatest Polish poets, born in L?dz, Congress Poland, and educated in L?dz and Warsaw where he studied law and philosophy at Warsaw University....
     (1894-1953), poet and writer
  • Janusz Andrzej Zajdel (1938-1985), physicist and science-fiction writer
  • Anna Zawadzka
    Anna Zawadzka

    Anna Zawadzka was a Poland teacher, author of textbooks, Scoutmaster , sister of Tadeusz Zawadzki and daughter of professor J?zef Zawadzki.During the years 1937-1942 she was a Girl Guide and Girl Scout patrol leader....
     (1919-2004), social worker and one of the leaders of Zwiazek Harcerstwa Polskiego
    Zwiazek Harcerstwa Polskiego

    Zwiazek Harcerstwa Polskiego is the coeducational Poland Scouting organization recognized by the World Organization of the Scout Movement and the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts....
  • Maciej Zembaty
    Maciej Zembaty

    Maciej Zembaty is a Poland artist, writer, journalist, singer, poet and comic. Despite being considered one of the classics of Polish grim humour, he is perhaps best known as a translator of songs and poems by Leonard Cohen....
     (b. 1944), poet and writer, famous for his grim humour
    Grim Humour

    Grim Humour was a UK based fanzine/underground magazine edited and published by Richard Johnson between 1983 and 1993. It spanned 18 editions during this period and sometimes included flexidiscs, compilations or split 7" records which themselves featured artists as diverse as Ausgang, Portion Control, Bushido, Shockheaded Peters, Hotalac...
     and translations of Leonard Cohen
    Leonard Cohen

    Leonard Norman Cohen, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec is a Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963....
    's works
  • Janusz Zeyland (1896-1944), medician and pneumonia
    Pneumonia

    Pneumonia is an Inflammation illness of the lung. Frequently, it is described as lung parenchyma/alveolus inflammation and abnormal alveolar filling with fluid ....
     specialist, one of BCG
    Bacillus Calmette-Guérin

    Bacillus Calmette-Gu?rin is a vaccination against tuberculosis that is prepared from a strain of the attenuated live bovine tuberculosis bacillus, Mycobacterium bovis, that has lost its virulence in humans by being specially cultured in an artificial medium for years....
     inventors
  • Rafal A. Ziemkiewicz
    Rafal A. Ziemkiewicz

    Rafal Aleksander Ziemkiewicz is a Poland political fiction and science fiction author and journalist.During his studies at the University of Warsaw in 1984 he joined SFAN science fiction fan association and started writing short stories....
     (b. 1964), writer
  • Florian Znaniecki
    Florian Znaniecki

    Florian Witold Znaniecki was a philosopher and a sociologist. He taught and wrote in Poland and the United States. He was the 44th President of the American Sociological Association and the founder of academic sociology studies in Poland....
     (1882-1958), philosopher and sociologist
  • Mariam Shavgulidze (1986-)Controversial Georgian Journalist of Armenian descent


Notable professors

  • Osman Achmatowicz
    Osman Achmatowicz

    Osman Achmatowicz was a Poland chemist of Tatars descent. His son, Osman Achmatowicz Jr., is credited with the Achmatowicz reaction in 1971....
     (1899-1988), chemist, rector of the Technical University of Lódz
    Technical University of Lódz

    The Technical University of L?dz was created in 1945 and has developed into one of the biggest in Poland. Originally located in an old factory building, today covering nearly 200,000 sq....
     (1946-1953)
  • Szymon Askenazy
    Szymon Askenazy

    Szymon Askenazy was a Poland historian, diplomat and politician, founder of the Askenazy school.Starting in 1902, he served as a professor at the University of Lviv....
    , historian
  • Karol Borsuk
    Karol Borsuk

    Karol Borsuk was a Poland mathematician.His main interest was topology.Borsuk introduced the theory of absolute retracts and absolute neighborhood retracts , and the cohomotopy groups, later called Borsuk-Spanier cohomotopy groups....
     (1905-1982), mathematician
  • Cezaria Anna Baudouin de Courtenay-Ehrenkreutz-Jedrzejewiczowa (1885-1967), ethnologist and anthropologist, one of the founders of Polish modern ethnology
  • Jan Niecislaw Baudouin de Courtenay
    Jan Niecislaw Baudouin de Courtenay

    Jan Niecislaw Ignacy Baudouin de Courtenay was a Poland Linguistics and Slavic studies, best known for his theory of the phoneme and phonetic alternations....
     (1845-1929), linguist, inventor of phoneme
    Phoneme

    In human language, a phoneme is the smallest posited linguistically distinctive unit of sound. Phonemes carry no semantic content themselves. In theoretical terms, phonemes are not the physical segment s themselves, but cognitive abstractions or categorizations of them....
  • Zygmunt Bauman
    Zygmunt Bauman

    Zygmunt Bauman is a Poland sociology who, since 1971, has resided in England after being driven out of Poland by an anti-Semitic purge organized by the Polish United Workers' Party....
     (b. 1925), sociologist
  • Benedykt Dybowski (1833-1930), biologist and explorer of Siberia
    Siberia

    Siberia , is the name given to the vast region constituting almost all of North Asia and for the most part currently serving as the massive central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, having served in the same capacity previously for the Soviet Union from its beginning, and the Russian Empire beginning in the 16th century....
     and Baikal
    Lake Baikal

    Lake Baikal is in southern Siberia in Russia, located between Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Buryatia to the southeast, near the city of Irkutsk....
     area
  • Michel Foucault
    Michel Foucault

    Michel Foucault was a French philosophy, historian, intellectual, Critical theory and sociologist. He held a chair at the Coll?ge de France with the title "History of Systems of Thought," and also taught at the University of California, Berkeley....
    , French philosopher, at the University dean-faculty of the French Centre 1958-1959
  • Aleksander Gieysztor (1916-1999), historian
  • Stanislaw Grabski
    Stanislaw Grabski

    Stanislaw Grabski was a Polish economist and politician, a National Democracy ideologue known for his support of Polonization policies under the Second Polish Republic....
     (1871-1949), economist
  • Henryk Greniewski (1903-1972), mathematician, informatician and pioneer of computers in Poland
  • Henryk Jablonski
    Henryk Jablonski

    Henryk Jablonski was a Poland Polish Socialist Party, after 1948 Polish United Workers' Party politician, historian and professor at Warsaw University....
     (1909-2003), historian, nominal head of state of Poland (1972-1985)
  • Feliks Pawel Jarocki
    Feliks Pawel Jarocki

    Feliks Pawel Jarocki was a Poland zoologist.Jarocki was a Doctor of Liberal Arts and Philosophy. He organised and managed the Zoological Cabinet of the Warsaw University from 1819 to 1862....
     (1790 - 1865), zoologist
  • Irena Jurgielewiczowa (1903-2003), writer
  • Dawid Kulisz (b. 1926), mathematician
  • Leszek Kolakowski
    Leszek Kolakowski

    Leszek Kolakowski is a distinguished Polish philosopher and history of ideas. He is best known for his critical analyses of Marxist thought, especially his acclaimed three-volume history, Main Currents of Marxism....
     (b. 1927), philosopher
  • Kazimierz Kuratowski
    Kazimierz Kuratowski

    Kazimierz Kuratowski was a Poland mathematician and logician....
     (1896-1980), mathematician
  • Joachim Lelewel
    Joachim Lelewel

    Joachim Lelewel was a Poland historian and politician, from a naturalized Polish branch of a Prussian family. His grandparents were Heinrich L?llh?ffel von L?wensprung and Constance Jauch family , who later Polonization her name to Lelewel....
     (1786-1861), historian, politician and freedom fighter
  • Antoni Lesniowski
    Antoni Lesniowski

    Antoni Lesniowski was a Polish surgeon, credited with publishing what may have been the earliest reports of the condition which later became known as Crohn?s disease....
     (1867-1940), surgeon and medic, one of the discoverers of Crohn's disease
    Crohn's disease

    Crohn's disease is an inflammatory disease which may affect any part of the gastrointestinal tract from mouth to anus, causing a wide variety of symptoms....
  • Edward Lipinski
    Edward Lipinski

    Edward Lipinski was a Poles economist, intellectual, social critic, and human rights advocate. Lipinski?s career spanned almost seven decades....
     (1888-1986), economist, founder of the Main Statistical Office
  • Jan Lukasiewicz
    Jan Lukasiewicz

    Jan Lukasiewicz was a Poland mathematician born in Lw?w, Galicia , Austria-Hungary . His major mathematical work centred on mathematical logic....
     (1878-1956), mathematician and logician
  • Kazimierz Michalowski
    Kazimierz Michalowski

    Kazimierz Michalowski was a Poland archaeologist and Egyptologist, and the founder of Nubiology.Michalowski studied classical archeology and art history at the University of Lw?w; he studied at the Universities and Archaeological Institutes of Berlin, Heidelberg, M?nster, Paris, Rome, Athens and Cairo....
     (1901-1981), archaeologist, explorer of Deir el Bahari and Faras
  • Andrzej Mostowski
    Andrzej Mostowski

    Andrzej Mostowski was a Poland mathematician. He is perhaps best remembered for the Mostowski collapse lemma.Born in Lviv, Austria-Hungary, Mostowski entered University of Warsaw in 1931....
     (1913-1975), mathematician
  • Maria Ossowska
    Maria Ossowska

    Maria Ossowska was a Poland sociology and social philosophy....
     (1896-1974), sociologist
  • Stanislaw Ossowski
    Stanislaw Ossowski

    Stanislaw Ossowski was one of Poland's most important Sociology. He held professorships at L?dz University and Warsaw University ....
     (1897-1963), sociologist
  • Juliusz Owidzki (1921-1986), actor and radio speaker
  • Grigol Peradze
    Grigol Peradze

    Grigol Peradze , was a famous Georgia ecclesiastic figure, theologian, historian, Archimandrite, PhD of History, Professor....
     (1899-1942), Orthodox theologian
  • Leon Petrazycki
    Leon Petrazycki

    Leon Petrazycki was a Poland philosopher, legal scholar and sociologist. He is considered one of the important forerunners of the sociology of law....
     (1867-1931), jurist
    Jurist

    A jurist or jurisconsult is a professional who studies, develops, applies, or otherwise deals with the law. The term is widely used in American English, but in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth of Nations countries it has only historical and specialist usage....
    , philosopher and logician, one of the founders of sociology of law
    Sociology of law

    Sociology of law. refers to both a sub-discipline of sociology and an approach within the field of legal studies. Sociology of law is a diverse field of study which examines the interaction of law with other aspects of society, such as the effect of legal institutions, doctrines, and practices on other social phenomena and vice versa....
  • Wlasyslaw Pilars de Pilar
    Pilars de Pilar

    Wladyslaw Baron Pilars de Pilar was a poet and a literature professor at the Warsaw University. He was a son of Edward Gustaw Pilars , an accountant in Adolf Gottlieb Fiedler's cloth factory, and Ewa Grzankowska....
     - (*Opatowek
    Opatówek

    Opat?wek is a village of 3800 inhabitants situated 10 km south-east from Kalisz, county of Kalisz County in the province of Wielkopolska, Poland....
     1874- +Chorzów
    Chorzów

    Chorz?w is a city in Silesia, southern Poland with around 114,680 inhabitants and an area of 33.5 km?. Chorz?w is situated on the Rawa river on the Silesian Highland in the heart of the Upper Silesian Industrial Area, 7 km north-west of Katowice....
     1952), a literature professor at the Warsaw University, poet and entrepreneur
  • Adam Podgórecki (1925-1998), sociologist of law
    Sociology of law

    Sociology of law. refers to both a sub-discipline of sociology and an approach within the field of legal studies. Sociology of law is a diverse field of study which examines the interaction of law with other aspects of society, such as the effect of legal institutions, doctrines, and practices on other social phenomena and vice versa....
  • Henryk Samsonowicz (b. 1930), historian, rector (1980-1982)
  • Waclaw Sierpinski
    Waclaw Sierpinski

    Waclaw Franciszek Sierpinski was a Poland mathematician. He was known for outstanding contributions to set theory , number theory, theory of function s and topology....
     (1882-1969), mathematician
  • Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin
    Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin

    Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin was a Russian mathematics.He was born in Tula, Russia and attended Moscow University, studying mathematics and physics there from 1865 to 1869....
     (1849-1915), mathematician
  • Jan Strelau
    Jan Strelau

    Jan Strelau is a Polish psychologist best known for his studies on temperament. He was professor of psychology at Warsaw University from 1968 to 2001 and is since 2001 professor at Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, where he takes the position of Prorector for research and international affairs....
     (b. 1931), psychologist
  • Jerzy Szacki
    Jerzy Szacki

    Jerzy Ryszard Szacki is a Poland sociology and History of ideas, and emeritus professor of the University of Warsaw.After World War II, worked for the Polish Telephone Authority, first as a locksmith, later in a desk job....
     (b. 1929), sociologist and historian
  • Stanislaw Thugutt
    Stanislaw Thugutt

    Stanislaw August Thugutt was a Polish activist and politician during the interwar period of the . He was the founder and leader of several peasant parties ....
     (1873-1941), politician, rector (1919-1920)
  • Wlodzimierz Zonn
    Wlodzimierz Zonn

    Wlodzimierz Zonn was a Poland astronomer. He studied at the University of Stefan Batory at Wilno, where later worked as a professor. Since 1950, Zonn was director of Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw. For many years ...
     (1905-1985), astronomer


See also

  • Warsaw school of history


External links