Andrzej Chwalba (born 1949 in

Częstochowa Częstochowa ( , ; german: Tschenstochau, Czenstochau; la, Czanstochova) is a city in southern Poland on the Warta River with 214,342 inhabitants, making it the thirteenth-largest city in Poland. It is situated in the Silesian Voivodeship (adm ...

) is a Polish historian. Professor of history at the

Jagiellonian University The Jagiellonian University ( Polish: ''Uniwersytet Jagielloński'', UJ) is a public research university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1364 by King Casimir III the Great, it is the oldest university in Poland and the 13th oldest university in ...

(since 1995), the university's prorector of didactics (1999-2002), head of the Institute of Social and Religious History of Europe in 19th and 20th century, and the deacon and prodeacon of Department of History. Chwalba graduated from the Jagiellonian University in 1972. Later he worked as a teacher in Częstochowa. In 1977 he became a member of the Communist party -

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. He gained a Ph.D. from the Jagiellonian University in 1982. Chwalba is a member of the Polish Historical Society, the Historical Commission of the

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and several foreign historical societies (Intern. Tagung der Historik, Europ. Community Liaison Committee of Historians, Centre de recherches d'histoire des mouvement sociaux et du syndicalisme), as well as editor in chief of ''Alternatywy'' (1985-1989); and ''Arka'' (1994-1995). He is a member of the editorial board of ''Historyka''. He is also Chairman of the Organisational Committee of the Congress.Konik-Korn, Agnieszka. "How do foreign historians see Poland?" Sunday Catholic Magazine
retrieved on November 23, 2007. Works by Andrzej Chwalba centre on social and religious history of Europe in 19th and 20th century. He has published over 120 scientific dissertations, including several books.

Works

* ''Socjaliści polscy wobec kultu religijnego'' (1989) * ''Sacrum i rewolucja'' (1992) * ''Józef Piłsudski historyk wojskowości'' (1993) * ''Imperium korupcji w Rosji i Królestwie Polskim w latach 1861-1917'' (1995) * ''Czasy "Solidarności". Francuscy związkowcy i NSZZ "S" 1980-90'' (1997) * ''Polacy w służbie Moskali'' (1999) * ''Słownik Historii Polski 1939-1948'' (1994,1996) - coauthor * ''Kalendarium Dziejów Polski'' (1999) (editor) * ''Samobójstwo Europy. Wielka Wojna 1914-1918'' (2014) * ''Przegrane zwycięstwo. Wojna polsko-bolszewicka 1918-1920'' (2020)

References

Prof. dr hab. Andrzej Chwalba contact information at UJUJ homepage
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