Marian Biskup (December 19, 1922 – April 16, 2012) was a

Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Polish people, people from Poland or of Polish descent * Polish chicken * Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin ...

historian, author and academic, who specialized in the history of the Baltics, Pomerelia, Teutonic Order, Prussia,

Toruń Toruń is a city on the Vistula River in north-central Poland and a World Heritage Sites of Poland, UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its population was 196,935 as of December 2021. Previously, it was the capital of the Toruń Voivodeship (1975–199 ...

and Copernicus. He was a member of the International Commission for the study of the

Teutonic Order The Teutonic Order is a religious order (Catholic), Catholic religious institution founded as a military order (religious society), military society in Acre, Israel, Acre, Kingdom of Jerusalem. The Order of Brothers of the German House of Sa ...

Biography

Biskup was born in Inowroclaw. He wrote on a number of historical subjects and particularly

Nicholas Copernicus Nicolaus Copernicus (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance polymath who formulated a mathematical model, model of Celestial spheres#Renaissance, the universe that placed heliocentrism, the Sun rather than Earth at its cen ...

. Biskup was known for his work on the history of

.Toruń

References

1922 births 2012 deaths People from Inowrocław 20th-century Polish historians Polish male non-fiction writers {{Poland-historian-stub