Witold Maria Hensel (March 29, 1917 in
Gniezno
Gniezno (; ; ) is a city in central-western Poland, about east of Poznań. Its population in 2021 was 66,769, making it the sixth-largest city in the Greater Poland Voivodeship. The city is the administrative seat of Gniezno County (''powiat'') ...
– November 22, 2008 in
Warsaw
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)
was a Polish
archaeologist
Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of Artifact (archaeology), artifacts, architecture, biofact (archaeology), biofacts or ecofacts, ...
. He was a member of the
Polish Academy of Sciences
The Polish Academy of Sciences (, 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 distinguished scholars a ...
and a member of the
Sejm
The Sejm (), officially known as the Sejm of the Republic of Poland (), is the lower house of the bicameralism, bicameral parliament of Poland.
The Sejm has been the highest governing body of the Third Polish Republic since the Polish People' ...
in
PRL (
SD, 1985–1989).
Publications
*Archaeological research in Poland ; by Witold Hensel and Aleksander Gieysztor, Warsaw : Polonia Pub. House, 1958.
Available at Warburg Institute
*The Origins of Western and Eastern Slav Towns, Witold Hensel, World Archaeology, Vol. 1, No. 1, Recent Work and New Approaches (Jun., 1969), pp. 51–6
*Polska Starożytna (En:ancient Poland) ;by Witold Hensel ;January 1988, Book, 3rd edition ;
*Excavations of Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Sites in South-Eastern Poland ;by Sarunas Milisauskas, Witold Hensel, Instytut Historii Kultury Materialnej (Polska Akademia Nauk); January 1985; Paperback ;
*Przemiany Ludnościowe I Kulturowe I Tysiaclecia P.N.E. Na Ziemiach Miedzy Odra a Dnieprem: Materiay Z Polsko-Radzieckiego Sympozjum Paleodemograficznego, Warszawa, 6-9 Grudnia 1977 by Polska Akademia Nauk, Witold Hensel; January 1983, Book ; ;
*Archeologia Medioevale Polacca in Italia ;by Witold Hensel, Stanisaw Tabaczynski ;January 1981, Book ;
References
1917 births
2008 deaths
People from Gniezno
People from the Province of Posen
Alliance of Democrats (Poland) politicians
Members of the Polish Sejm 1985–1989
20th-century Polish archaeologists
Polish medievalists
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań alumni
Academic staff of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Academic staff of the University of Warsaw
Commanders of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
Commanders of the Order of Polonia Restituta
Commanders with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta
Knights of the Order of Polonia Restituta
Members of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Officers of the Order of Polonia Restituta
Burials at Powązki Cemetery
Recipients of the State Award Badge (Poland)
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