Jerzy Artur Bahr (23 April 1944 – 25 July 2016) was a Polish

diplomat A diplomat (from ; romanization, romanized ''diploma'') is a person appointed by a state (polity), state, International organization, intergovernmental, or Non-governmental organization, nongovernmental institution to conduct diplomacy with one ...

Life

Bahr graduated from sociology at the

Jagiellonian University The Jagiellonian University (, UJ) is a public research university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1364 by Casimir III the Great, King Casimir III the Great, it is the oldest university in Poland and one of the List of oldest universities in con ...

(1967). In 1974, he began his diplomatic career at the

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. From 1992 to 1994 he was Consul-General in

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, from 1997 to 2001 he was the

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of the

Republic of Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

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, from 2001 to 2005 to

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, and from 2006 to 2010 he was

of the

to the

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. Bahr died of cancer on 25 July 2016 at the age of 72.

References

1944 births 2016 deaths Ambassadors of Poland to Lithuania Ambassadors of Poland to Russia Ambassadors of Poland to Turkmenistan Ambassadors of Poland to Ukraine Commander's Crosses of the Order for Merits to Lithuania Commanders of the Order of Polonia Restituta Commanders with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta Consuls-general for Poland Diplomats of the Polish People's Republic Jagiellonian University alumni Diplomats from Kraków {{Poland-politician-stub Polish United Workers' Party members