Piotr Eberhardt (December 27, 1935 – September 10, 2020) was a Polish geographer, a professor at the
Polish Academy of Science
The Polish Academy of Sciences ( pl, Polska Akademia Nauk, PAN) is a Polish state-sponsored institution of higher learning. Headquartered in Warsaw, it is responsible for spearheading the development of science across the country by a society ...
and author of studies in the field of demography and population geography. His works included the ethnic problems of Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th century. He also specialized in the field of geopolitics.
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Biography
Eberhardt was born in Warsaw
Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is official ...
, Poland. From the 1960s onwards, he was associated with the Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization of the Polish Academy of Science
The Polish Academy of Sciences ( pl, Polska Akademia Nauk, PAN) is a Polish state-sponsored institution of higher learning. Headquartered in Warsaw, it is responsible for spearheading the development of science across the country by a society ...
, where in 1968 he earned his doctorate, and in 1976 habilitation
Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in many European countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellence in research, teaching and further education, usually including ...
. The title of professor of earth science was bestowed upon him in 1994. Since 1983 he taught at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin ( pl, Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, la, Universitas Catholica Lublinensis Ioannis Pauli II, abbreviation KUL), established in 1918. It is the only private college in Poland with the s ...
.
Works
* Rozmieszczenie i dynamika ludności wiejskiej w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej w XX wieku, Warszawa 1991
* Polska granica wschodnia 1939-1945, Warszawa 1992
* Przemiany narodowościowe na Ukrainie XX wieku, Warszawa 1994
*Przemiany narodowościowe na Białorusi, Warszawa 1994
*Między Rosją a Niemcami. Przemiany narodowościowe w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej