Adam Kersten (26 April 1930 in

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- 11 January 1983 in

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) was a Polish historian, expert on the Polish history in the 17th century. Member of the faculty at

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since 1955. From 1980 he was active in the

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movement. Husband of

Krystyna Kersten Krystyna Kersten (pen name, Jan Bujnowski; born Krystyna Goławska May 25, 1931 in Poznań – July 10, 2008 in Warsaw) was a Polish historian, a professor at the Historical Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of Collegium In ...

. Posthumously he received the

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Works

* ''Opowieści o szwedzkim najeździe'' (1956) * ''Chłopi polscy w walce z najazdem szwedzkim 1655 - 1656'' (1958) * ''Z badań nad konfederacją tyszowiecką'' (1958) * ''Geneza nowej gigantomachii'' (1958) * ''Pierwszy opis obrony Jasnej Góry w 1655 r.'' (1959) * ''Stefan Czarniecki 1599-1665'' (1963) * ''Obrona Klasztoru w Jasnej Górze'' (1964) * ''Sienkiewicz – „Potop” – Historia'' (1966) * ''Historia dla klasy II liceum ogólnokształcacego'' (1968) * ''Na tropach Napierskiego. W kręgu mitów i faktów'' (1970) * ''Warszawa Kazimierowska 1648-1668: miasto, ludzie, polityka'' (1971) * ''Historia Szwecji'' (1973) * ''Szwedzi pod Jasną Górą 1655'' (1975) * ''Historia powszechna, 1648-1789'' (1978) * ''Historia powszechna, wiek XVII'' (1984) * ''Hieronim Radziejowski: studium władzy i opozycji'' (1988)

References

Adam Kersten page
on his memorial foundation
Biography
* Jerzy Jedlicki, ''Adam Kersten: Suwerenność historyka'', „Gazeta Wyborcza”, 13.01.2008
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. 1930 births 1983 deaths Polish dissidents 20th-century Polish historians Polish male non-fiction writers Recipients of the Order of Polonia Restituta Solidarity (Polish trade union) activists Historians of Poland University of Warsaw alumni {{Poland-historian-stub