The University of Warsaw ( pl, Uniwersytet Warszawski, la, Universitas Varsoviensis) is a

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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 officiall ...

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...

. Established in 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country offering 37 different fields of study as well as 100 specializations in

humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at t ...

, technical, and the

natural science Natural science is one of the branches of science concerned with the description, understanding and prediction of natural phenomena, based on empirical evidence from observation and experimentation. Mechanisms such as peer review and repeatab ...

s. The University of Warsaw consists of 126 buildings and educational complexes with over 18 faculties:

biology Biology is the scientific study of life. It is a natural science with a broad scope but has several unifying themes that tie it together as a single, coherent field. For instance, all organisms are made up of cells that process hereditary ...

chemistry Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the elements that make up matter to the compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions: their composition, structure, proper ...

journalism Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the " news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree. The word, a noun, applies to the occupation (p ...

and political science,

philosophy Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. ...

and

sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of empirical investigation an ...

physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which ...

geography Geography (from Greek: , ''geographia''. Combination of Greek words ‘Geo’ (The Earth) and ‘Graphien’ (to describe), literally "earth description") is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, an ...

and regional studies,

geology Geology () is a branch of natural science concerned with Earth and other Astronomical object, astronomical objects, the features or rock (geology), rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time. Modern geology ...

history History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as well ...

, applied

linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Ling ...

and

philology Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as ...

Polish language Polish (Polish: ''język polski'', , ''polszczyzna'' or simply ''polski'', ) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic group written in the Latin script. It is spoken primarily in Poland and serves as the native language of the Poles. In ad ...

pedagogy Pedagogy (), most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political and psychological development of learners. Pedagogy, taken ...

economics Economics () is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics anal ...

, law and

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psychology Psychology is the science, scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of consciousness, conscious and Unconscious mind, unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immens ...

, applied

social sciences Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the original "science of so ...

, management and

mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

computer science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to Applied science, practical discipli ...

and

mechanics Mechanics (from Ancient Greek: μηχανική, ''mēkhanikḗ'', "of machines") is the area of mathematics and physics concerned with the relationships between force, matter, and motion among physical objects. Forces applied to objec ...

. The University of Warsaw is one of the top Polish universities. It was ranked by '' Perspektywy'' magazine as best Polish university in 2010, 2011, 2014, and 2016. International rankings such as

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and University Web Ranking ranked the university as the best Polish higher level institution in 2012.

History

Beginnings under Alexander I (1816–1918)

In 1795, the

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left

with access only to the

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when the oldest and most influential Polish academic center, 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 ...

Kraków Kraków (), or Cracow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula, Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city dates back to the seventh century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland un ...

, became part of the Austrian

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. In 1815, the newly established semi-autonomous

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Congress Poland Congress Poland, Congress Kingdom of Poland, or Russian Poland, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland, was a polity created in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna as a semi-autonomous Polish state, a successor to Napoleon's Duchy of Warsaw. I ...

found itself without a university at all, as Vilnius was incorporated into the

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. In 1816,

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permitted the Polish authorities to create a university, comprising five departments: Law and Administration, Medicine, Philosophy, Theology, and Art and Humanities. The university soon grew to 800 students and 50 professors. After most of the students and professors took part in the November 1830 Uprising the university was closed down; it was again closed after the failed

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of 1863. As a consequence, all Polish-language schools were prohibited by the Imperial Russian government which controlled Congress Poland. During its short existence, the university educated thousands of students, many of whom became part of the backbone of the Polish

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In 1915, during the

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, Warsaw was seized by

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and the occupying German authorities allowed a certain degree of liberalization to gain military support from the Poles. In accordance with the concept of '' Mitteleuropa'', the Germans permitted several Polish social and educational societies to be recreated, including the University of Warsaw. The Polish language was reintroduced, but, in order to maintain Polish patriotic movement in control, the number of lecturers was kept low. No limits on the number of students; between 1915 and 1918 the number of alumni rose from a mere 1,000 to over 4,500.

Second Polish Republic (1918–1939)

Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory

After Poland regained its independence in 1918, the University of Warsaw began to grow very quickly. It was reformed; all the important posts (the rector,

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, deans and councils) became democratically elected, and the state spent considerable amounts of money to modernize and equip it. Many professors returned from exile and cooperated in the effort. By the late 1920s the level of education in Warsaw had reached that of western Europe. By the beginning of the 1930s the University of Warsaw had become the largest university in Poland, with over 250 lecturers and 10,000 students. However, the financial problems of the newly reborn state did not allow for free education, and students had to pay a tuition fee for their studies (an average monthly salary, for a year). Also, the number of

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s was very limited, and only approximately 3% of students were able to get one. Despite these economic problems, the University of Warsaw grew rapidly. New

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were opened, and the main

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was expanded. After the death of Józef Piłsudski the Senate of the University of Warsaw changed its name to "Józef Piłsudski University of Warsaw" (''Uniwersytet Warszawski im. Józefa Piłsudskiego''). The '' Sanacja'' government proceeded to limit the autonomy of the universities. Professors and students remained divided for the rest of the 1930s as the system of segregated seating for Jewish students, known as ghetto benches, was implemented customarily, not institutionally; comparable to the era of the

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in the United States.

World War II (1939–1945)

After the Polish Defensive War of 1939 the German authorities of the

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closed all the institutions of higher education in Poland. The equipment and most of the laboratories were taken to Germany and divided amongst the

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while the main campus of the University of Warsaw was turned into

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. German racial theories assumed that no education of Poles was needed and the whole nation was to be turned into uneducated

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s of the German race. Education in Polish was banned and punished with death. However, many professors organized the so-called "Secret University of Warsaw" (''Tajny Uniwersytet Warszawski''). The lectures were held in small groups in private apartments and the attendants were constantly risking discovery and death. However, the net of underground faculties spread rapidly and by 1944 there were more than 300 lecturers and 3,500 students at various courses. Many students took part in the

Warsaw Uprising The Warsaw Uprising ( pl, powstanie warszawskie; german: Warschauer Aufstand) was a major World War II operation by the Polish underground resistance to liberate Warsaw from German occupation. It occurred in the summer of 1944, and it was led ...

as soldiers of the

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and Szare Szeregi. The German-held campus of the university was turned into a fortified area with bunkers and

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nests. It was located close to the buildings occupied by the German garrison of Warsaw. Heavy fights for the campus started on the first day of the Uprising, but the partisans were not able to break through the gates. Several assaults were bloodily repelled and the campus remained in German hands until the end of the fights. During the uprising and the occupation 63 professors were killed, either during fights or as an effect of German policy of extermination of Polish

. The university lost 60% of its buildings during the fighting in 1944. A large part of the collection of priceless works of art and books donated to the university was either destroyed or transported to Germany, never to return.

Post-war and the People's Republic (1945–1989)

After World War II it was not clear whether the university would be restored or whether Warsaw itself would be rebuilt. However, many professors who had survived the war returned, and began organizing the university from scratch. In December 1945, lectures resumed for almost 4,000 students in the ruins of the campus, and the buildings were gradually rebuilt. Until the late 1940s the university remained relatively independent. However, soon the communist authorities started to impose political controls, and the period of

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started. Many professors were arrested by the Urząd Bezpieczeństwa (Secret Police), the books were censored and ideological criteria in employment of new lecturers and admission of students were introduced. On the other hand, education in Poland became free of charge and the number of young people to receive the state

s reached 60% of all the students. After Władysław Gomułka's rise to power in 1956, a brief period of liberalization ensued, though communist ideology still played a major role in most faculties (especially in such faculties as history, law, economics, and political science). International cooperation was resumed and the level of education rose. By mid-1960s the government started to suppress freedom of thought, which led to increasing unrest among the students. A political struggle within the communist party prompted

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to ban the production of '' Dziady'' by

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at the Teatr Narodowy, leading to 1968 Polish political crisis coupled with anti-Zionist and anti-democratic campaign and the outbreak of student demonstrations in Warsaw, which were brutally crushed – not by police, but by the ORMO ''reserve militia'' squads of plain-clothed workers. As a result, a large number of students and professors were expelled from the university. Nonetheless, the university remained the centre of free thought and education. What professors could not say during lectures, they expressed during informal meetings with their students. Many of them became leaders and prominent members of the

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movement and other societies of the democratic opposition which led to the

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. The scientists working at the University of Warsaw were also among the most prominent printers of books forbidden by

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Third Polish Republic (1989–present)

In 1999, a new

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building was opened in Powiśle. After Poland joined the

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in 2004, the university obtained additional funds from the European Structural and Investment Funds for the construction of additional buildings including the Biological and Chemical Research Centre, Centre of New Technologies, and a new building for the Faculty of Physics.

Campus

University of Warsaw owns a total of 126 buildings. Further construction and a vigorous renovation program are underway at the main campus. The university is spread out over the city, though most of the buildings are concentrated in two areas.

Main campus

Biblioteka Uniwersytecka w Warszawie 2018

The main campus of the University of Warsaw is in the city center, adjacent to the Krakowskie Przedmieście street. It comprises several historic

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s, most of which had been nationalized in the 19th century. The chief buildings include: *

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(''Pałac Kazimierzowski'') – the seat of the rector and the

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; * Uruski Palace (''Pałac Uruskich'') – left side of main gate entrance, houses the Department of Geography and Regional Studies * the Old Library (''Stary BUW'') – since recent refurbishment, a secondary lecture building; * the Main School (''Szkoła Główna'') – former seat of the Main School until the January 1863 Uprising, later the faculty of biology; now, since its refurbishment, the seat of the Institute of archaeology; * '' Auditorium Maximum'' – the main lecture hall, with seats for several hundred students. The

Warsaw University Library The University of Warsaw Library ( pl, Biblioteka Uniwersytecka w Warszawie, BUW) is a library of the University of Warsaw, Poland. History The library was founded in 1816 as a direct consequence of establishing The Royal Warsaw University. S ...

building is a short walk downhill from the main campus, in the Powiśle neighborhood.

Natural sciences campus

The second important campus is located near Banacha and Pasteura streets. It is home to the departments of chemistry, physics, biology, mathematics, computer science, and geology, and contains several other university buildings such as the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling, the Environmental Heavy Ion Laboratory that houses a cyclotron and a facility for the production of PET radiopharmaceuticals, and a sports facility. Several new buildings have been constructed within this campus in recent years, and the Department of Physics moved here from its previous location at Hoża Street. Together with buildings of other institutions, such as the Institute of Experimental Biology, Radium Institute and the Medical University of Warsaw, the campus is part of an almost contiguous area of scientific and educational facilities covering approximately .

Faculties

University of Warsaw Main Campus, Warsaw, Poland, 2019, 03

# Faculty of Applied Linguistics # Faculty of Applied Social Sciences and Resocialization # Faculty of Archaeology # Faculty of “Artes Liberales” # Faculty of Biology # Faculty of Chemistry # Faculty of Culture and Arts # Faculty of Economic Sciences # Faculty of Education # Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies # Faculty of Geology # Faculty of History # Faculty of Journalism, Information and Book Studies # Faculty of Law and Administration # Faculty of Management # Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics # Faculty of Modern Languages # Faculty of Oriental Studies # Faculty of Sociology # Faculty of Philosophy #

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# Faculty of Polish Studies # Faculty of Political Science and International Studies # Faculty of Psychology

Other institutes

* American Studies Center * British Studies Centre * Centre de Civilisation Française et d'Études Francophones auprès de l'Université de Varsovie * Centre for Archaeological Research at

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* Centre for Environmental Study * Centre for Europe * Centre for European Regional and Local Studies (EUROREG) * Centre for Foreign Language Teaching * Centre for Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in the Humanities * Centre for Latin-American Studies (CESLA) * Centre for Open Multimedia Education * Centre for the Study of Classical Tradition in Poland and East-Central Europe * Centre of Studies in Territorial Self-Government and Local Development * Chaire UNESCO du Developpement Durable de l`Universite de Vaersovie * Comité Polonais de l'Alliance Français * Digital Economy Lab (DELab) – joint institute with

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* Erasmus of Rotterdam Chair * Heavy Ion Laboratory * Individual Inter-faculty Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences * Institute of Americas and Europe * Institute of International Relations – host of GMAPIR * The Robert B.Zajonc Institute for Social Studies * Inter-faculty Study Programme in Environmental Protection * Interdisciplinary Centre for Behavioural Genetics * Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling * Physical Education and Sports Centre * Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology * University Centre for Technology Transfer * University College of English Language Teacher Education * University of Warsaw for Foreign Language Teacher Training and European Education

Institutions

* Academic Radio Kampus 97,1 FM * Institute of Information Science and Book Studies * The Institute of Polish Language and Culture 'Polonicum' * University of Warsaw Libraries

The university in popular culture

* In

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's 1961 novel '' Thunderball'', the ninth book in the

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series, one of the main characters, Ernst Stavro Blofeld who is the head of the global criminal organisation

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, is said to be a graduate of the University of Warsaw. * In 2016, the

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issued commemorative stamps on the 200th anniversary of the founding of the university depicting the Column Hall of the building of the Faculty of History.

Notable alumni

Ryszard Kapuscinski, author-writer, at PEN Congress

Jerzy Andrzejewski Jerzy Andrzejewski (; 19 August 1909 – 19 April 1983) was a prolific Polish writer. His works confront controversial moral issues such as betrayal, the Jews and Auschwitz in the wartime. His novels, '' Ashes and Diamonds'' (about the immediat ...

(1909–1983), author *

Szymon Askenazy Szymon Askenazy (December 24, 1865, Zawichost – June 22, 1935, Warsaw) was a Jewish- Polish historian, educator, statesman and diplomat, founder of the Askenazy school. He was the first Polish representative at the League of Nations. His work ...

(1865-1935), Polish jurist, historian, educator, first Polish representative to the

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Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, (; nom de guerre: Jan Bugaj; 22 January 1921 – 4 August 1944) was a Polish poet and Home Army soldier, one of the most well known of the Generation of Columbuses, the young generation of Polish poets, of whom several ...

(1921–1944), poet,

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soldier killed in the

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(1913–1992), 6th

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(1977–1983),

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winner (1978) * Marek Bieńczyk (born 1956), writer, historian of literature, essayist and translator, Nike Award winner (2012) * Adam Bodnar (born 1977), lawyer, human rights activist, Polish Ombudsman * Tadeusz Borowski (1922–1951), poet, writer *

Kazimierz Brandys Kazimierz Brandys (27 October 1916 – 11 March 2000) was a Polish essayist and writer of film scripts. Biography Brandys was born in Łódź. He was the brother of the writer Marian Brandys and husband of the translator . He graduated in law ...

(1916–2000), writer *

Marian Brandys Marian Brandys (25 January 1912 – 20 November 1998) was a Polish writer and screenwriter born in Wiesbaden into an assimilated Jewish family of the Polish intelligentsia. Brandys grew up in Łódź. His father owned a bank. Their prosperit ...

(1912–1998), writer, journalist *

Frédéric Chopin Frédéric François Chopin (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin; 1 March 181017 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leadin ...

(1810–1849), pianist, composer *

Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz (, born 13 September 1950) is a Polish left-wing politician who served as Prime Minister of Poland for a year from 7 February 1996 to 31 October 1997, after being defeated in the Parliamentary elections by the Solidari ...

(born 1950), politician, Prime Minister of Poland (1996–1997), Marshal of the Sejm (2005) * Tomasz Dietl (born 1950), physicist *

Samuel Eilenberg Samuel Eilenberg (September 30, 1913 – January 30, 1998) was a Polish-American mathematician who co-founded category theory (with Saunders Mac Lane) and homological algebra. Early life and education He was born in Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland to ...

(1913–1998), mathematician, computer scientist, art collector *

Barbara Engelking Barbara Engelking (born 22 April 1962) is a Polish sociologist specializing in Holocaust studies. The founder and director of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research in Warsaw, she is the author or editor of several works on the Holocaust in P ...

(born 1962), sociologist *

Joseph Epstein Joseph Epstein (October 16, 1911 – April 11, 1944), also known as Colonel Gilles and as Joseph Andrej, was a Polish-born Jewish communist activist and a French Resistance leader during World War II. He was executed by the Germans. Communi ...

(1911–1944), communist leader of French resistance * Lech Gardocki (born 1944) lawyer, judge, former First President of the Supreme Court of Poland * Marek Gazdzicki (born 1956), nuclear physicist *

Bronisław Geremek Bronisław Geremek (; born Benjamin Lewertow;

(1932–2008), historian, politician * Małgorzata Gersdorf (born 1952), lawyer, first President of the Supreme Court of Poland * Maciej Gliwicz (born 1939), biologist *

Witold Gombrowicz Witold Marian Gombrowicz (August 4, 1904 – July 24, 1969) was a Polish writer and playwright. His works are characterised by deep psychological analysis, a certain sense of paradox and absurd, anti-nationalist flavor. In 1937 he published his fi ...

(1904–1969), writer * Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz (born 1952), politician, President of the National Bank of Poland (1992–2001), Mayor of Warsaw (2006–2018) *

Jan T. Gross Jan Tomasz Gross (born 1947) is a Polish-American sociologist and historian. He is the Norman B. Tomlinson '16 and '48 Professor of War and Society, emeritus, and Professor of History, emeritus, at Princeton University. Gross is the author o ...

(born 1947), historian, writer,

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...

professor *

Zofia Helman Zofia Helman (born 8 March 1937) is a Polish musicologist and an honorary member of the Polish Composers' Union. Life Zofia Helman was born in Radom and studied musicology at the University of Warsaw from 1954-59. In 1967 she defended her doctor ...

(born 1937), musicologist *

Gustaw Herling-Grudziński Gustaw Herling-Grudziński (; May 20, 1919 − July 4, 2000) was a Polish writer, journalist, essayist, World War II underground fighter, and political dissident abroad during the communist system in Poland. He is best known for writing a personal ...

(1919–2000), journalist, writer,

Gulag The Gulag, an acronym for , , "chief administration of the camps". The original name given to the system of camps controlled by the State Political Directorate, GPU was the Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps (, )., name=, group= ...

survivor *

Leonid Hurwicz Leonid Hurwicz (; August 21, 1917 – June 24, 2008) was a Polish-American economist and mathematician, known for his work in game theory and mechanism design. He originated the concept of incentive compatibility, and showed how desired outcome ...

(1917–2008), economist, mathematician,

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(2007) *

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(1926-2020), literary critic * Monika Jaruzelska (born 1963) fashion designer, journalist, daughter of former

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Wojciech Jaruzelski * Jerzy Jedlicki (1930–2018), historian of ideas, anti-communist activist *

Jarosław Kaczyński Jarosław Aleksander Kaczyński (; born 18 June 1949) is a Polish politician who is currently serving as leader of the Law and Justice party (known by its Polish acronym PiS), which he co-founded in 2001 with his twin brother, Lech Kaczyński, ...

(born 1949), politician, Prime Minister of Poland (2006–2007) * Lech Kaczyński (1949–2010), politician, Mayor of Warsaw (2002–2005), President of Poland (2005–2010) * Andrzej Kalwas (born 1936), lawyer, businessman, and former Polish

Minister of Justice A justice ministry, ministry of justice, or department of justice is a ministry or other government agency in charge of the administration of justice. The ministry or department is often headed by a minister of justice (minister for justice in a ...

* Aleksander Kamiński (1903–1978), writer, leader of Polish Scouting and Guiding Association * Ryszard Kapuściński (1932–2007), writer and journalist *

Mieczysław Karłowicz Mieczysław Karłowicz (, 11 December 18768 February 1909) was a Polish composer and conductor. Life Mieczysław Karłowicz was born in Vishneva, in the Vilna Governorate of the Russian Empire (now in Belarus) into a noble family belonging to ...

(1876–1909), composer * Jan Karski (1914–2000), Polish resistance fighter * Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925–2015), paleobiologist *

Leszek Kołakowski Leszek Kołakowski (; ; 23 October 1927 – 17 July 2009) was a Polish philosopher and historian of ideas. He is best known for his critical analyses of Marxist thought, especially his three-volume history, ''Main Currents of Marxism'' (1976). ...

(1927–2009), philosopher, historian of philosophy * Bronisław Komorowski (born 1952), politician, Marshal of the Sejm (2007–2010), President of Poland (2010–2015) *

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, (born 1946), 3rd President of Mali (1992–2002) *

Wojciech Kopczuk Wojciech Kopczuk is a professor of economics at Columbia University. He is currently the editor-in-chief of the ''Journal of Public Economics''. Biography Kopczuk received his BA and Msc from the University of Warsaw in 1996. He then received hi ...

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

economist * Janusz Korwin-Mikke (born 1942), conservative-liberal politician and journalist * Marek Kotański (1942–2002), psychologist and streetworker *

Jacek Kuroń Jacek Jan Kuroń (; 3 March 1934 – 17 June 2004) was one of the democratic leaders of opposition in the People's Republic of Poland. He was widely known as the "godfather of the Polish opposition," not unlike Václav Havel in Czechoslovakia. K ...

(1934–2004), historian, author, social worker, and politician * Jan Józef Lipski (1926–1991), literature historian, politician *

Ewa Łętowska Ewa Łętowska (pronounced: ; born 22 March 1940 in Warsaw) is a Polish lawyer, a specialist in civil law and professor of legal science. Since 1985, she has worked at the Institute of Law of the Polish Academy of Sciences and since 1997, she has ...

(born 1940), lawyer, first Polish Ombudsman for Citizen Rights * Jerzy Łojek (1932–1986), historian, writer * Pawel Maciag (born 1978), lawyer, university professor in New York, diplomat, and journalist * Olga Malinkiewicz (born 1982), physicist * Tadeusz Mazowiecki (1927–2013), author, social worker, journalist, Prime Minister of Poland (1989–1991) * Adam Michnik (born 1946), journalist * Karol Modzelewski (1937–2019), historian, politician * Mirosław Nahacz (1984–2007), novelist, screenwriter * Jerzy Neyman (1894–1981), mathematician, statistician,

University of California The University of California (UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California. The system is composed of the campuses at Berkeley, Davis, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, University of Califor ...

professor * Jan Olszewski (1930-2019), lawyer, politician, Prime Minister of Poland (1991–1992) *

Janusz Onyszkiewicz Janusz Adam Onyszkiewicz (, born 18 December 1937) is a Polish mathematician, alpinist, politicianEuropa Publications, "The International Who's Who 2004", Routledge, 2003pg. 1258/ref> and was a vice-president of the European Parliament's Foreign ...

(born 1937), politician * Maria Ossowska (1896–1974), sociologist * Bohdan Paczyński (1940–2007), astronomer *

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(born 1976), sociologist and political scientist *

Longin Pastusiak Longin Hieronim Pastusiak (pronounced ; born August 22, 1935 in Łódź, Poland) is a Polish politician and historian. Academic career In 1959 Pastusiak earned his Master of Arts degree form Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affa ...

(born 1935), politician, Marshal of the Senate of the Republic of Poland (2001–2005) * Bolesław Piasecki (1915–1979), politician *

Krzysztof Piesiewicz Krzysztof Marek Piesiewicz (; born 25 October 1945 in Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish lawyer, screenwriter, and politician. From 1991 to 1993 and from 1997 to 2011 he was a member of Polish Senate. He was the head of the Ruch Społeczny (RS) o ...

(born 1945), lawyer, screenwriter *

Marian Pilot Marian Pilot (born 6 December 1936) is a Polish writer, poet, journalist and screenwriter. He received the 2011 Nike Award, Poland's most important literary prize, for his novel ''Pióropusz'' (Plume). Life and career Born in 1936, in the vill ...

(born 1936), writer, journalist and screenwriter, Nike Award winner (2011) * Moshe Prywes (1914–1998), Israeli physician and educator; first President of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev * Adam Przeworski (born 1940), political scientist,

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then- Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, th ...

professor * Bolesław Prus (1847–1912), writer *

Mikhail Reisner , birth_date = , birth_place = Vileyka, Vilna Governorate, Russian Empire , death_date = , death_place = Moscow, RSFSR, Soviet Union , spouse = Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Reisner , partner ...

(1868-1928), Russian and Soviet jurist, historian and academic. * Emanuel Ringelblum (1900–1944), historian, founder Emanuel Ringelblum Archives of Warsaw GhettoEmanuel Ringelblum: The Creator of “Oneg Shabbat”
Holocaust Research Project. *

Ireneusz Roszkowski Ireneusz Roszkowski (24 March 1910 – 21 April 1996) was a Polish people, Polish Nobility, nobleman, professor, founder of modern Polish gynaecology and obstetrics, a humanist, precursor of prenatal medicine, a supporter of midwives. He was one ...

(1910–1996), precursor of prenatal medicine *

Józef Rotblat Sir Joseph Rotblat (4 November 1908 – 31 August 2005) was a Polish and British physicist. During World War II he worked on Tube Alloys and the Manhattan Project, but left the Los Alamos Laboratory on grounds of conscience after it became c ...

(1908–2005), physicist,

(1995) * Stefan Sarnowski (1939-2014), philosopher * Stanisław Sedlaczek (1892–1941), social worker, leader of Polish Scouting and Guiding Association *

Yitzhak Shamir Yitzhak Shamir ( he, יצחק שמיר, ; born Yitzhak Yezernitsky; October 22, 1915 – June 30, 2012) was an Israeli politician and the seventh Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms, 1983–1984 and 1986–1992. Before the establishment ...

(1915–2012), 7th

(1983–1984 and 1986–1992) *

Wacław Sierpiński Wacław Franciszek Sierpiński (; 14 March 1882 – 21 October 1969) was a Polish mathematician. He was known for contributions to set theory (research on the axiom of choice and the continuum hypothesis), number theory, theory of functions, and to ...

(1882–1969), mathematician * Andrzej Sobolewski (born 1951), physicist * Alexander Soloviev (1890-1971) Russian émigré jurist, historian, academic. * Dmitry Strelnikoff (born 1969), Russian writer, biologist, journalist for the media * Kazimiera Szczuka (born 1966), literary critic, feminist,

LGBT rights Rights affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender ( LGBT) people vary greatly by country or jurisdiction—encompassing everything from the legal recognition of same-sex marriage to the death penalty for homosexuality. Notably, ...

activist, television personality *

Marzena Ozarek Szilke Marzena Ozarek Szilke (''née'' Ozarek) is a Polish archaeologist, anthropologist and paleopathologist. Ozarek mainly studies Ancient Egypt. Education Ozarek graduated with a master's degree in Archaeology from the University of Warsaw; she had ...

, archaeologist, anthropologist and paleopathologist * Adam Szymczyk (born 1970), art critic and curator * Magdalena Środa (born 1957), philosopher and feminist * Alfred Tarski (1902–1982), logician, mathematician, member of the Lwów-Warsaw school of logic *

Władysław Tatarkiewicz Władysław Tatarkiewicz (; 3 April 1886, Warsaw – 4 April 1980, Warsaw) was a Polish philosopher, historian of philosophy, historian of art, esthetician, and ethicist. Early life and education Tatarkiewicz began his higher education at ...

(1886–1980), philosopher, historian of esthetics * Olga Tokarczuk (born 1962), writer, essayist, psychologist,

Nobel Prize in Literature ) , image = Nobel Prize.png , caption = , awarded_for = Outstanding contributions in literature , presenter = Swedish Academy , holder = Annie Ernaux (2022) , location = Stockholm, Sweden , year = 1901 , ...

(2018) *

Rafał Trzaskowski Rafał Kazimierz Trzaskowski (; born 17 January 1972) is a Polish politician and the current city mayor of Warsaw. He is also a political scientist specializing in European studies. He served as a Member of the European Parliament (2009–201 ...

(born 1972), politician, academic teacher, Mayor of Warsaw *

Julian Tuwim Julian Tuwim (13 September 1894 – 27 December 1953), known also under the pseudonym "Oldlen" as a lyricist, was a Polish poet, born in Łódź, then part of the Russian Partition. He was educated in Łódź and in Warsaw where he studied law ...

(1894–1953), poet and writer * Alfred Twardecki (born 1962), archaeologist, historian of antiquity, museologist * Andrzej Udalski (born 1957), astronomer and astrophysicist *

Mordkhe Veynger Mordkhe Veynger (russian: Мордхе Вейнгер; 1890–1929), more infrequently known as Mikhail Borisovich Veynger (russian: Михаил Борисович Вейнгер) was a Russian and Soviet linguist. An ethnic Jew, he specialised ...

(1890–1929), Soviet-Jewish linguist * Kostiantyn Voblyi (1876-1947), Ukrainian economist, academic, active in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union. * Andrzej Kajetan Wróblewski (born 1933), experimental physicist * Janusz Andrzej Zajdel (1938–1985), physicist and science-fiction writer * Ludwik Zamenhof (1859–1917), physician, inventor of

Esperanto Esperanto ( or ) is the world's most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Created by the Warsaw-based ophthalmologist L. L. Zamenhof in 1887, it was intended to be a universal second language for international communic ...

* Andrzej Zaniewski (born 1939), author and poet * Paweł Zarzeczny (1961–2017), sports journalist, columnist and TV personality * Anna Zawadzka (1919–2004), social worker, leader of Polish Scouting and Guiding Association *

Maciej Zembaty Maciej Zembaty (16 May 194427 June 2011) was a Polish artist, writer, journalist, singer, poet and comedian. Despite being considered one of the classics of Polish black humour, he is perhaps best known as a translator and populariser of songs and ...

(1944–2011), poet, writer, translator of

Leonard Cohen Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist. His work explored religion, politics, isolation, depression, sexuality, loss, death, and romantic relationships. He was inducted in ...

's works * Rafał A. Ziemkiewicz (born 1964), writer * Florian Znaniecki (1882–1958), philosopher and sociologist

Notable staff

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Professors

* Osman Achmatowicz (1899–1988), chemist, rector of the

Technical University of Łódź Technical may refer to: * Technical (vehicle), an improvised fighting vehicle * Technical analysis, a discipline for forecasting the future direction of prices through the study of past market data * Technical drawing, showing how something is c ...

(1946–1953) *

Vladimir Prokhorovich Amalitskii Vladimir Prokhorovich Amalitskii (russian: Владимир Прохорович Амалицкий; 1860–1917) (alternative spelling: Amalitzky) was a Russian paleontologist and professor at Warsaw University who was involved in the discovery a ...

(1860–1917), paleontologist *

(1866–1935), historian * Aleksandr Nikolaevich Bartenev (1882-1946), zoologist * Maria Ludwika Bernhard (1908–1998), archaeologist * Karol Borsuk (1905–1982), mathematician * Franciszek Bujak (1919–1921) historian * Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay (1845–1929), linguist, introduced the concept of a

phoneme In phonology and linguistics, a phoneme () is a unit of sound that can distinguish one word from another in a particular language. For example, in most dialects of English, with the notable exception of the West Midlands and the north-wes ...

* Zygmunt Bauman (1925–2017), sociologist * Tomasz Dietl (born 1950), physisct, Laureate of Agilient Technologies Europhysics Prize of The European Physical Society (2005) * Samuel Dickstein (1851-1939), mathematician, proponent of Jewish assimilation in Poland * Benedykt Dybowski (1833–1930), biologist and explorer of

Siberia Siberia ( ; rus, Сибирь, r=Sibir', p=sʲɪˈbʲirʲ, a=Ru-Сибирь.ogg) is an extensive geographical region, constituting all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. It has been a part ...

and

Baikal Lake Baikal (, russian: Oзеро Байкал, Ozero Baykal ); mn, Байгал нуур, Baigal nuur) is a rift lake in Russia. It is situated in southern Siberia, between the Federal subjects of Russia, federal subjects of Irkutsk Oblast, I ...

area * Aleksandr Mikhailovich Evlakhov (1880-1966), literary critic *

Michel Foucault Paul-Michel Foucault (, ; ; 15 October 192625 June 1984) was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic. Foucault's theories primarily address the relationship between power and knowledge, and ho ...

(1926–1984), French philosopher, at the university dean-faculty of the French Centre 1958–1959 * Stanisław Grabski (1871–1949), economist *

Dmitri Iosifovich Ivanovsky Dmitri Iosifovich Ivanovsky (alternative spelling ''Dmitrii'' or ''Dmitry Iwanowski''; russian: Дми́трий Ио́сифович Ивано́вский; 28 October 1864 – 20 June 1920) was a Russian botanist, the co-discoverer of :viruses ...

(1864-1920), botanist, pioneer in the discovery and study of viruses *

Henryk Jabłoński Henryk Jan Jabłoński (; 27 December 1909 – 27 January 2003) was a Polish historian and politician. After 1948, he became a politician of the ruling Polish United Workers' Party, as well as a historian and professor at Warsaw University. He ...

(1909–2003), historian, nominal head of state of Poland (1972–1985) * Feliks Pawel Jarocki (1790–1865), zoologist * Barbara Jaruzelska (1931–2017), philologist and German studies professor,

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(1985–1990) *

Nikolai Ivanovich Kareev Nikolai Ivanovich Kareev (russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Каре́ев; 6 December 1850 – 18 February 1931) was a Russian historian and philosopher. He was educated at Moscow and earned his doctorate in history in 1884. Life ...

(1850-1931), philosopher, historian * Yefim Fyodorovich Karsky (1861-1931) linguist, etnographer, paleographer * Jerzy Kolendo (1955-1983), classical archaeologist and historian *

(1927–2009), philosopher * Kazimierz Kuratowski (1896–1980), mathematician *

Joachim Lelewel Joachim Lelewel (22 March 1786 – 29 May 1861) was a Polish historian, geographer, bibliographer, polyglot and politician. Life Born in Warsaw to a Polonized German family, Lelewel was educated at the Imperial University of Vilna, where in 181 ...

(1786–1861), historian, politician and freedom fighter * Antoni Leśniowski (1867–1940), surgeon and medic, one of the discoverers of

Crohn's disease Crohn's disease is a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that may affect any segment of the gastrointestinal tract. Symptoms often include abdominal pain, diarrhea (which may be bloody if inflammation is severe), fever, abdominal distensi ...

* Edward Lipiński (1888–1986), economist, founder of the Main Statistical Office *

Jan Łukasiewicz Jan Łukasiewicz (; 21 December 1878 – 13 February 1956) was a Polish logician and philosopher who is best known for Polish notation and Łukasiewicz logic His work centred on philosophical logic, mathematical logic and history of logic. ...

(1878–1956), mathematician and logician * Mieczysław Maneli (1922–1994),

jurist A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyses and comments on law. This person is usually a specialist legal scholar, mostly (but not always) with a formal qualification in law and often a legal practitioner. In the U ...

* Leszek Marks (born 1951), geologist * Kazimierz Michałowski (1901–1981), archaeologist, explorer of Deir el Bahari and Faras *

Andrzej Mostowski Andrzej Mostowski (1 November 1913 – 22 August 1975) was a Polish mathematician. He is perhaps best remembered for the Mostowski collapse lemma. Biography Born in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary, Mostowski entered University of Warsaw in 1931. He was ...

(1913–1975), mathematician * Nikolai Viktorovich Nasonov (1855-1939), zoologist * Maria Ossowska (1896–1974), sociologist *

Stanisław Ossowski Stanisław Ossowski ( Lipno, 22 May 18977 November 1963, Warsaw) was one of Poland's most important sociologists. He held professorships at Łódź University (1945–47) and Warsaw University (1947–63). Life Ossowski first contributed to log ...

(1897–1963), sociologist * Vladimir Ivanovich Palladin (1859-1922), biochemist, botanist *

Grigol Peradze Saint Grigol Peradze ( ka, გრიგოლ ფერაძე; 13 September 1899 – 6 December 1942) was a prominent Georgian ecclesiastic figure, philologist, theologian, historian, and professor of patristics in the interwar period. Life ...

(1899–1942), Orthodox theologian *

Leon Petrażycki Leon Petrażycki (Polish: Leon Petrażycki; Russian: ''Лев Иосифович Петражицкий'' ev Iosifovich Petrazhitsky born 13 April 1867, in Kołłątajewo, Mogilev Governorate, now in Belarus – 15 May 1931, in Warsaw) was a Pol ...

(1867–1931),

, philosopher and logician, one of the founders of

sociology of law The sociology of law (legal sociology, or law and society) is often described as a sub-discipline of sociology or an interdisciplinary approach within legal studies. Some see sociology of law as belonging "necessarily" to the field of sociology, ...

Ladislaus Pilars de Pilar Ladislaus Baron Pilars de Pilar ( pl, Władysław Pilars de Pilar, Opatówek, 3 March 1874 - Chorzów, 22 November 1952) was a Polish poet, historian, entrepreneur and a literature professor at the University of Warsaw. Biography He was a son of ...

(1874–1952), literature professor, poet and entrepreneur * Adam Podgórecki (1925–1998), sociologist of law * Dmitry Yakovlevich Samokvasov (1843-1911), archaeologist, legal historian * Henryk Samsonowicz (1930–2021), historian, rector (1980–1982) *

(1882–1969), mathematician *

Alfred Sokołowski Alfred Marcin Sokołowski (11 November 1849 in Włodawa - 8 March 1924 in Warsaw) was a Polish pulmonology, pulmonologist and professor of the University of Warsaw. He specialised in the field of Phthisiatry (study of tuberculosis) and he was one ...

(1849–1924), physician and a pioneer in

tuberculosis Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by '' Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' (MTB) bacteria. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can also affect other parts of the body. Most infections show no symptoms, ...

treatment * Hélène Sparrow (1891–1970), bacteriologist and public health pioneer, especially typhus * Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin (1849–1915), mathematician *

Jan Strelau Jan Strelau (born 30 May 1931 in Gdańsk; died 4 August 2020 in Warsaw) was a Polish psychologist best known for his studies on temperament. He was professor of psychology at Warsaw University from 1968 to 2001 and was since 2001 professor at Wa ...

(born 1931), psychologist * Jerzy Szacki (1929–2016), sociologist and historian * Andrzej K. Tarkowski (born 1933), zoologist, Laureate of

Japan Prize is awarded to people from all parts of the world whose "original and outstanding achievements in science and technology are recognized as having advanced the frontiers of knowledge and served the cause of peace and prosperity for mankind." The P ...

(2002) * Stanisław Thugutt (1873–1941), politician, rector (1919–1920) * Georgy Feodosevich Voronoy (1868-1908), mathematician * Tadeusz Wałek-Czarnecki (1889–1949), professor of Ancient History * Ewa Wipszycka (born 1933), historian and papyrologist * Władysław Witwicki (1878–1948), psychologist, philosopher, translator and artist * Georgy Viktorovich Wulff (1863-1925), crystallographer *

Włodzimierz Zonn Wlodzimierz Zonn (14 July 1905, Vilnius – 28 February 1975) was a Polish astronomer. He studied at the University of Stefan Batory at Wilno, where he later worked as a professor. From 1950, Zonn was director of Astronomical Observatory of th ...

(1905–1985), astronomer

Rectors

# Wojciech Szweykowski (1818–1831) # Józef Karol Skrodzki (1831) #

Józef Mianowski Józef Mianowski (1804–1879) was a Polish medical researcher and practitioner, academic, social and political activist, and rector of the "Main School" incarnation (1862–69) of Warsaw University. In honor of Mianowski, after his death, in 1 ...

(1862–1869) # Piotr Ławrowski (1869–1873) # Nikołaj Błagowieszczański (1874–1884) # Nikołaj Ławrowski (1884–1890) # Michaił Szałfiejew (1895) # Pawieł Kowalewski (1896) # Grigorij Zenger (1896) # Michaił Szałfiejew (1898) # Grigorij Uljanow (1899–1903) # Piotr Ziłow (1904) # Yefim Karskiy (1905–1911) # Wasilij Kudrewiecki (1911–1912) # Iwan Trepicyn (1913) # Siergiej Wiechow (1914–1915) # Józef Brudziński (1915–1917) # Antoni Kostanecki (1917–1919) # Stanisław Thugutt (1919–1920) # Jan Karol Kochanowski (1920–1921) # Jan Mazurkiewicz (1921–1922) #

(1922–1923) # Ignacy Koschembahr-Łyskowski (1923–1924) # Franciszek Krzyształowicz (1924–1925) # Stefan Pieńkowski (1925–1926) # Bolesław Hryniewiecki (1926–1927) # Antoni Szlagowski (1927–1928) # Gustaw Przychocki (1928–1929) # Tadeusz Brzeski (1929–1930) # Mieczysław Michałowicz (1930–1931) #

(1931–1932) # Józef Ujejski (1932–1933) # Stefan Pieńkowski (1933–1936) # Włodzimierz Antoniewicz (1936–1939) # Jerzy Modrakowski (1939) # Stefan Pieńkowski (1945–1947) # Franciszek Czubalski (1947–1949) # Jan Wasilkowski (1949–1952) # Stanisław Turski (1952–1969) # Zygmunt Rybicki (1969–1980) # Henryk Samsonowicz (1980–1982) # Kazimierz Albin Dobrowolski (1982–1985) # ''Rector electus'' Klemens Szaniawski (1984) # Grzegorz Białkowski (1985–1989) # Andrzej Kajetan Wróblewski (1989–1993) # Włodzimierz Siwiński (1993–1999) # Piotr Węgleński (1999–2005) # Katarzyna Chałasińska-Macukow (2005–2012) # Marcin Pałys (2012–2020) # Alojzy Nowak (since 2020)

Staff

Czesław Miłosz Czesław Miłosz (, also , ; 30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004) was a Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat. Regarded as one of the great poets of the 20th century, he won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its citation, ...

– janitor at

during World War II; recipient of 1980

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