Gerard Labuda

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Gerard Labuda

Gerard Labuda (

Western Slavs. He was born in Kashubia
. He lived and died in Poznań, Poland.

Life

Labuda was born in

Polish Academy of Learning (PAU); president 1989–1994; from 1964 member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN); vice-president 1984–1989; from 1959 to 1961 director of the Western Institute (Instytut Zachodni) in Poznań and a member of the New York Academy of Sciences. He was buried in Luzino - Kashubia
.

From 1958 onwards he edited the multi-volume Słownik Starożytności Słowiańskich (Dictionary of Slavonic Antiquities) and published historical sources. Author of more than 30 books and close to 2000 scholarly publications.

Awarded the

Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1996) and the highest Polish distinction Order of the White Eagle
(2010; posthumously) .

Award of the Alfred Jurzykowski Foundation (USA, 1983),

Herder Award
(Austria, 1991). State of Poland awards (1949, 1951, 1970).

Honorary Doctorates of

Szczecin University
(2003).

Works

See also

  • List of Poles

External links