Krzysztof Pomian (born 1934), is a Polish philosopher,

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

and essayist. He is a professor of history at the Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika (Nicolaus Copernicus University) in

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and, in 2001, was academic director of the (now closed) Museum of Europe in

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

. Pomian's specialization lies in the socio-cultural history of

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, and

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. He teaches as the dean of studies at the

École des hautes études en sciences sociales The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (french: École des hautes études en sciences sociales; EHESS) is a graduate ''grande école'' and '' grand établissement'' in Paris focused on academic research in the social sciences. The ...

and is an editor of the magazine '' Le Débat''. Since 1968, he has also been a visiting professor at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) in

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, where he lectures on the history of

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an societies.

Distinctions and honours

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of the

Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (MCSU) ( pl, Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej w Lublinie, UMCS) was founded October 23, 1944 in Lublin. It is named in honour of Marie Curie-Sklodowska. Currently the number of students is almost 36,000. The ...

in Lublin (

) since 2003List of honorary degrees from the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University
. *

Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science The Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science () is the most prestigious scientific award in Poland given every year from 1992 by a non-governmental non-profit Polish organization, Foundation for Polish Science (). The prize is widely regarded a ...

(2017)

Books

* Collectionneurs, amateurs et curieux. Paris, Venise : XVIe-XVIIIe siècle. Paris, Gallimard, 1987, * ''L'Ordre du temps'', 1984 * ''La querelle du déterminisme : philosophie de la science d'aujourd'hui'', 1990 * ''L'Europe et ses nations'', 1990 * ''Sur l'histoire'', 1999 * ''Des saintes reliques à l'art moderne : Venise-Chicago XIII–XX'', 2003 * ''Ibn Khaldun au prisme de l'Occident'', 2006

References

1934 births Living people 20th-century Polish historians Polish male non-fiction writers Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń faculty Université catholique de Louvain faculty {{Poland-philosopher-stub 20th-century Polish philosophers 21st-century Polish philosophers People associated with the magazine "Kultura"