Henryk Zieliński

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Zieliński in 1970

Henryk Zieliński (22 September 1920 in Szembruczek near Grudziądz - 6 March 1981 in Wrocław) was a Polish historian and professor at the University of Wrocław.

Biography

After his high-school exit exam ("maturity diploma") he was conscripted, in summer 1938, to the Polish military service as cadet; next year, after the

students of the underground university
.

After the war, in the

proletarian" enough, and his refusal to bow down to the nomenklatura and accept the children of party officials as his students, irrespective of merit.[3] He supported the Solidarity movement created in 1980.[4]

Grave of Henryk Zieliński. Wrocław cemetery at Grabiszyn-Grabiszynek (sect. 2A)

His death in the early morning hours of 6 March 1981 was suspicious: he was found dead on a sidewalk near his house. Although at first both the press and

milicja investigators talked about a murder,[5] from the next day the official line was that it was an accident and the investigation was annulled.[3]

Works

Henryk Zieliński was interested in the history of

political thought
in the 19th and 20th centuries.

In the 1970s, with the improving relations between Poles and Germans, he took part in the work of the Polish-German Textbook Commission, a joint Polish-German governmental organization which reviewed the current textbooks in both countries in order to remove anti-German and anti-Polish stereotypes and former propaganda.

His last major work, Historia Polski 1914 – 1939 (History of Poland 1914-1939), was printed

Soviet invasion of Poland on 17 September 1939 together with the photo of the German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk
was removed and replaced with a general note on changed borders.

Among his former students are three notable contemporary Polish historians: Marian Orzechowski, Adolf Juzwenko and Włodzimierz Suleja.

Zieliński received the Knight's Cross of

Polonia Restituta
and the Medal of the National Education Commission.

Selected bibliography

  • "Liczba Polaków w Niemczech w latach 1918-1939 na tle systemu niemieckiej statystyki narodowościowej" (Number of Poles in Germany from 1918-1939 in the context of the German system of nationality statistics); in: "Przegląd Zachodni" z.9, (1948)
  • "Polacy i polskość Ziemi Złotowskiej w latach 1918-1939" (Poles and Polish culture of Ziemia Złotowskia in 1918-1939) (1949)
  • "Zagadnienie powstań śląskich" (The issue of Silesian Uprisings); in: "Wiadomości Historyczne" nr 5 (1952) i nr 1 (1953)
  • "Położenie i walka górnośląskiego proletariatu w latach 1918–1922" (The situation and fights of the proletariat in the Upper Silesia from 1918-1922) (1957)
  • Znaczenie traktatu wersalskiego dla rozwoju stosunków polsko-niemieckich"; in: "Kwartalnik Historyczny" nr 1 (The importantce of the Treaty of Versailles to the development of Polish-German relations), (1963)
  • "Polska myśl polityczna a sprawa ziem zachodnich (przed rokiem 1914)" (Polish political thought and the issue of western lands (before the year 1914)) ; in: "Sobótka" nr 1-2 (1964)
  • "Historia Polski 1864–1939" (History of Poland, 1864-1939) (1968)
  • "Rola powstania wielkopolskiego oraz powstań śląskich w walce o zjednoczenie ziem zachodnich i niepodległą Polskę (1918-1921)" (The role of the Wielkopolska Uprising and Silesian Uprisings in the fight to unite the western lands and independent Poland (1918-1922)); in: Droga przez półwiecze. O Polsce lat 1918-1968. Referaty z sesji PAN i UW poświęcone 50 rocznicy odzyskania niepodległości, (1969)
  • "Batalii podręcznikowej ciąg dalszy (Historia Polski w zachodnioniemieckich podręcznikach szkolnych)" (The textbook warfare continued: History of Poland in the West Germany school textbooks); in: "Odra", nr 10, (1973)
  • "O potrzebie i trudnościach badania polskiej myśli politycznej" (On the needs and problems in studying the Polish political thought); in: "Polska Myśl polityczna XIX i XX w.", t.I: "Polska i jej sąsiedzi", Wrocław (1975)
  • "Polska Myśl polityczna XIX i XX w." (Polish political thought in the 19th and 20th c.), t.I: "Polska i jej sąsiedzi", Wrocław (1975), (ed.)
  • "Czy istniał model polskiego działacza politycznego (Piłsudski, Witos, Paderewski, Dmowski)" (Was there a model of a Polish political activist?); in: Dzieje kultury politycznej w Polsce pod red. J.A.Gierowskiego, (1977)
  • "Polska myśl polityczna XIX i XX wieku" (Polish political thought in the 19th and 20th c.), t.II: "Twórcy polskiej myśli politycznej", Wrocław (1978), (introduction, ed.)
  • "Historia Polski 1914–1939" (History of Poland 1914-1939) (1983, second edition 1985)

References

  1. ^ a b (in Polish)Juliusz Zieliński, Wspomnienie o Ojcu – Profesorze Henryku Zielińskim, [in:] Łambinowicki Rocznik Muzealny. Jeńcy wojenni w latach II wojny światowej, nr 33/2010 Archived 2014-12-20 at the Wayback Machine, ed. Centralne Muzeum Jeńców Wojennych w Łambinowicach-Opolu, Opole 2010, ISSN 0137-5199, pp. 153-164
  2. ^ message (in Polish) of Ministry of Public Security in archives of Institute of National Remembrance
  3. ^
    ISBN 83-7432-012-5
    , pp. 115-127 (in Polish)
  4. ^ Krzysztof Kawalec, Zieliński Henryk [1920-1981] – jak go pamiętam – memory of prof. Zieliński in "Gazeta Wyborcza", 7.3.2006 (in Polish)
  5. ^ "Wieczór Wrocławia" nr 45 (4145), March 6th 1981 (pp. 1 & 12) (in Polish)

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