Ryszard Torzecki (20 March 1925 in
Łódź
Łódź, also rendered in English as Lodz, is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located approximately south-west of Warsaw. The city's coat of arms is an example of cant ...
– 20 August 2003 in
Konstancin
Konstancin is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Góra Świętej Małgorzaty, within Łęczyca County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately north-east of Łęczyca and north of the regional capital Łód ...
) was a Polish historian, specializing in the
Polish-Ukrainian relations. He was a member of the Institute of History of the
Polish Academy of Sciences
The Polish Academy of Sciences ( pl, Polska Akademia Nauk, PAN) is a Polish state-sponsored institution of higher learning. Headquartered in Warsaw, it is responsible for spearheading the development of science across the country by a society of ...
and in the 1990s he served as one of the experts to the Polish parliament (
Sejm
The Sejm (English: , Polish: ), officially known as the Sejm of the Republic of Poland ( Polish: ''Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej''), is the lower house of the bicameral parliament of Poland.
The Sejm has been the highest governing body of ...
) with regards to the Polish-Ukrainian relations. He was the author of over 100 scholarly works.
1925 births
2003 deaths
20th-century Polish historians
Polish male non-fiction writers
Writers from Łódź
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