Juliusz Bardach (3 November 1914, in

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– 26 January 2010, in

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) was a Polish legal historian. Professor of the

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, member of the

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. He specialized in the history of governance and law of Lithuania and Poland.

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in Moscow (1945–1947). He received his Ph.D. from 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 ...

in 1948. He received

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from the

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(1995),

(1996) and the

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(1997). Bardach was a recipient of the Grand Cross of the

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(2002) and the Officer's Cross of the Lithuanian

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(2006). He is the older brother of surgeon and

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survivor

Janusz Bardach Janusz Bardach (July 28, 1919 in Odessa – August 16, 2002 in Iowa City) was a gulag survivor, author, and noted plastic surgeon. He was the younger brother of Polish legal scholar Juliusz Bardach. Survivors include: his wife, Phyllis Harper- ...

, author of ''

Man Is Wolf to Man ''Man Is Wolf to Man'' (1998; ) from the Latin Homo homini lupus is a memoir by Janusz Bardach, primarily surrounding the years during World War II. It was co-written with Kathleen Gleeson. The book tells the story of Bardach's transformation f ...

''.

Selected works

* ''Historia państwa i prawa Polski do połowy XV wieku'' (1957) * ''Historia państwa i prawa polskiego'' (1976, with Bogusław Leśnodorski and Michał Pietrzak, ) * ''Themis a Clio czyli Prawo a historia'' (2001, ) * ''Dzieje Sejmu Polskiego'' (1993, ) * ''O dawnej i niedawnej Litwie'' (1988, ) * ''Historia ustroju i prawa polskiego'' (1993, ) * ''O Rzeczpospolitą Obojga Narodów'' (1998, ) * ''Statuty litewskie a prawo rzymskie'' (1999, ) * ''W obiektywie nauki i w lustrze pamięci (o uczonych, pisarzach i politykach XIX i XX wieku)'' (2004, )

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* 1914 births 2010 deaths 20th-century Polish historians Polish male non-fiction writers Writers from Odesa Lawyers from Warsaw Jewish historians Grand Crosses of the Order of Polonia Restituta Officer's Crosses of the Order for Merits to Lithuania Odesa Jews Jagiellonian University alumni Academic staff of the University of Warsaw {{Poland-historian-stub Polish military attachés