Jacek Purchla (born 1954 in
Kraków
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) – Polish
Art Historian and
Economist
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, Professor of Humanities, founder and director of the
International Cultural Centre
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in
Kraków
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. He specialises in
urban development
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,
social history
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and
art history
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of the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as the theory and protection of
cultural heritage.
Education and employment
Jacek Purchla graduated in Economics and Art History. He received his PhD (1983) and habilitation (second doctoral degree) from the
Jagiellonian University. He has been a titular professor since 1994 and full professor of humanities (professor ordinarius) since 1997. He is a member of the
Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences
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. He is the head of the Department of Economic and Social History and the UNESCO Chair for Heritage and Urban Studies at the
Krakow University of Economics, as well as the head of the Centre of European Heritage, Institute of European Studies at the
Jagiellonian University.
From 1990 to 1991 he was a vice-mayor of the city of
Kraków
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. He has been the founder and director of the
International Cultural Centre
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* ''International'' (The T ...
in
Kraków
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since its inception in 1991. From 1995 to 2001 he was a professor in the Institute of Art History at the
Jagiellonian University. Since 2015 he has been the President of the
Polish National Commission for UNESCO
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(previously, 2012–2015, its Vice-president). In 2016, has been elected the Chairperson of the 41st session of the
World Heritage Committee
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.
Research areas
Jacek Purchla's scholarly activities are of interdisciplinary character, and his interests focus primarily on widely understood urban issues and problems connected with the development of
cities
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. He managed to create a modern technique of an “urbanologist”, considering a
city
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to be a complex organism, composed of social, economic, political and cultural processes. In his activities, another important emphasis was placed on research into the 19th and 20th century
architecture
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, which he pioneered already in the mid-1970s, and in which he analysed, in an innovative way, such factors as construction law, the role of public patronage, education, political, social and economic issues. In recent years, he has initiated interdisciplinary studies in the theory of
heritage
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and
historic city
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management. Since 2005, he has been the founder and head of the first Polish European Heritage Department.
Functions
Selection of various functions: an editor of the “Rocznik Krakowski”
rakow Yearly
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(with
Jerzy Wyrozumski
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) since 1989; a member of the Art Studies Committee at the
Polish Academy of Sciences
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; a member of the
Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art (CIHA). He is a member of many organisations and associations, including the
Europa Nostra Council
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in
The Hague
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. He is an expert member of the
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, an expert of the
European Commission
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in the
European Heritage Label
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project, a member of the Advisory Council of
. He was the chairmen of the Monument Preservation Council at the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in Poland (2000-2016).
Fellowships
Jacek Purchla's major foreign fellowships include
Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships Programme (1991);
Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung
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(1992-1993, 1997, 2005, 2015); the
University of Leuven (1995); Salzburg Seminar (1995, 2000); the
University of Heidelberg
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(1996);
Australian Institute for Polish Affairs
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(2003);
British Council
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(2004). He also took part in extended fellowship programmes in
Tilburg
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(the
Netherlands
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,
Grand Valley State University
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(
Michigan
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, USA) and
London
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.
Orders and distinctions (selection)
* Knight's Cross, Officer's Cross and Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta
* Golden Order of Merit of the Republic of Austria
* Golden Cross of Merit of the Republic of Hungary
* Knight's Cross of the Order of Leopold (Belgium)
* Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
* Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of Norway
* Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary
* Rheinlandtaler (Cologne)
* Aleksander Gieysztor Award
* Mitteleuropapreis
* Prize of Economic Forum in Krynica New Culture of the New Europe
[''Prof. Jacek Purchla laureatem Nagrody im. Vincenza'', Magiczny Kraków, 8.09.2015, http://krakow.pl/aktualnosci/193934,33,komunikat,prof__jacek_purchla_laureatem_nagrody_im__vincenza.html (access: 29.05.2017).]
Publications (selection)
* ''Jak powstał nowoczesny Krakow''
ow modern Krakow originated Krakow, 1979; 2nd edition, Krakow, 1990.
* ''Wien-Krakau im 19. Jahrhundert'', Vienna, 1985.
* ''Jan Zawiejski – architekt przełomu XIX i XX wieku''
an Zawiejski – an architect of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries Warsaw, 1986.
* ''Dom pod Globusem''
house under globe Krakow, 1988; 2nd edition, Krakow, 1997 – co-author with Zbigniew Beiersdorf.
* ''Matecznik Polski. Pozaekonomiczne czynniki rozwoju Krakowa w okresie autonomii galicyjskiej''
he cradle of Poland. Non-economic factors of Krakow's development in the period of Galician autonomy Krakow, 1990; 2nd edition, Krakow, 1992.
* ''Krakau unter österreichischer Herrschaft 1846–1918. Faktoren seiner Entwicklung'', Vienna-Cologne-Weimar, 1993.
* ''Das Theater und sein Architekt'', Krakow, 1993)
* ''Krakow – prowincja czy metropolia?''
rakow – provinces or metropolis? Krakow, 1996.
* ''Krakow in the European Core'', Krakow, 2000, 2nd edition Krakow 2016, and various language versions (Kraków w Europie Środka, Krakau Mitten in Europa, Cracovia nell’Europa centrale, Cracovia en Europa Central, Cracovie dans l’Europe du Centre)
* ''Historia architektury Krakowa w zarysie''
he outline of the architectural history of Krakow
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Krakow, 2001 – co-author with Marcin Fabianski.
* ''Heritage vs. Transformation'', Krakow, 2005.
* ''Gry w miasto''
laying a city
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Krakow, 2011.
* ''Międzynarodowe Centrum Kultury. Początek''
nternational Cultural Centre. The Beginning Kraków 2015.
* ''Budúcnosť minulosti. Kultúrne dedičstvo strednej Európy dnes'', Bratislava 2017.
Jacek Purchla is also a scientific editor of over 40 collective works and the author of over 400 articles published in many languages.
References
Bibliography
* Władysław Tyrański ''Kto jest kim w Krakowie'', Kraków 2000.
External links
Biographical note on the website of the International Cultural CentreBiographical note on the website of the Krakow University of EconomicsBiographical note on the website of the Jagiellonian University
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1954 births
Living people
20th-century Polish historians
Polish male non-fiction writers
Members of the Polish Academy of Learning
Academic staff of Jagiellonian University
21st-century Polish historians