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Aleksander Gieysztor (17 July 1916 – 9 February 1999) was a Polish
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Aleksander Gieysztor (17 July 1916 – 9 February 1999) was a Polish medievalist
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historian
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Life
Aleksander Gieysztor was born to a Polish family inMoscow
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, Russia, where his father worked as a railwayman. In 1921, the family relocated to Poland and settled in Warsaw
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. He graduated in history from the University of Warsaw
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in 1937.
He was married to Irena Gieysztor née Czarnecka, a fellow historian.
The Aleksander Gieysztor Prize of the Kronenberg Foundation and the Aleksander Gieysztor Academy of Humanities are named after him.
Awards
*1944: Silver Cross of the OrderVirtuti Militari
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*1961: Legion d'Honneur
*1980: The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
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*1994: Order of the White Eagle
*1993: Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta
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A 1993 President's decree on granting the Order to Geysztor, for exceptional merit for Polish science and culture *1999: The Commander's Cross of the
Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
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Books
* Historia Polski (co-author; 1947) * Ze studiów nad genezą wypraw krzyżowych (1948) * Zarys nauk pomocniczych historii (1948), a textbook used by a lot of generations of Polish students * Zarys dziejów pisma łacińskiego (1972) * Zamek Królewski w Warszawie (1973) * Mitologia Słowian (1982) (wyd. Wydawnictwa Artystyczne i Filmowe, 1982 i 1986, w serii * Mitologie Świata, ). * Dzieje Mazowsza do 1526 roku (co-author Henryk Samsonowicz) * La Pologne et l’Europe au Moyen Age. Warszawa, P.W.N. Conférence au Centre Scientifique Parisien de l’Académie Polonaise des Sciences le 10 décembre 1962. * Società e cultura nell’alto Medioevo Polacco. Ossolineum 1965. Conférence à l’Académie Polonaise des Sciences à Rome le 5 novembre 1963.See also
* List of PolesReferences
20th-century Polish historians Polish male non-fiction writers Recipients of the Order of Polonia Restituta Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 1916 births 1999 deaths Researchers of Slavic religion Presidents of the Polish Academy of Sciences Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy Recipients of the Order of the White Eagle (Poland) {{Poland-historian-stub