Jerzy Jedlicki
Jerzy Jedlicki | |
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Born | |
Died | January 31, 2018 Warsaw, Poland | (aged 87)
Nationality | Polish |
Alma mater | University of Warsaw |
Occupation | Historian of ideas |
Awards | Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science (2015) Order of Polonia Restituta (2011) Jerzy Giedroyc Prize (2009) |
Jerzy Jedlicki (born Jerzy Grossman 14 June 1930,
Life and work
Born into an assimilated Jewish family, he graduated in sociology from the University of Warsaw in 1952. In 1989, he was granted the title of a Humanities Professor. He worked at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN). He specialized in the history of the culture of the 18th-20th centuries as well as social history.[3] He was also a member of the Warsaw-based Collegium Invisibile.[4]
Since 1948, he was a member of the
After the
In 2009, he was awarded (together with Maciej Janowski and Magdalena Micińska) the Jerzy Giedroyc Prize for their collaborative work entitled Dzieje inteligencji polskiej do roku 1918 ("The History of the Polish Intelligentsia until 1918"). In 2011, President Bronisław Komorowski awarded him with the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.[9] In 2015, he received the Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science in the humanities and social sciences category for his "fundamental studies on the phenomenon of the intelligentsia as a social stratum and its role in modernization processes in Central and Eastern Europe".[10]
He died on 31 January 2018 and was buried at the Powązki Military Cemetery in Warsaw.[11]
Selected publications
- Klejnot i bariery społeczne: przeobrażenia szlachectwa polskiego w schyłkowym okresie feudalizmu, Warsaw 1968
- Jakiej cywilizacji Polacy potrzebują: studia z dziejów idei i wyobraźni XIX wieku, PWN, Warsaw 1988
- Źle urodzeni, czyli o doświadczeniu historycznym, Aneks, London 1993
- Świat zwyrodniały. Lęki i wyroki krytyków nowoczesności, Sic!, Warsaw 2000
- Błędne koło 1832–1864, (collaborative work: Dzieje inteligencji polskiej do roku 1918), Institute of History PAN, Warsaw 2008
- Droga do narodowej klęski, Warsaw 2013
See also
- Solidarity movement
- Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science
- Copernicus Award
References
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- ^ "Jerzy Jedlicki: Nie marksizm mnie uwiódł". Retrieved 2019-08-01.
- ^ "prof. zw. dr hab. Jerzy Andrzej Jedlicki". Retrieved 2019-08-01.
- ^ "Collegium Invisibile. Tutorzy". Archived from the original on 2013-05-07. Retrieved 2019-08-01.
- ^ "Encyklopedia Solidarności. Jerzy Jedlicki". Retrieved 2019-08-01.
- ^ "Jerzy Jedlicki". Retrieved 2019-08-01.
- ^ "Jerzy Jedlicki (1930-2018): inteligent totalny". Retrieved 2019-08-01.
- ^ "Jerzy Jedlicki (1930-2018): inteligent totalny". Retrieved 2019-08-01.
- ^ "M.P. 2011 nr 109 poz. 1103". Retrieved 2019-08-01.
- ^ "LAUREACI NAGRODY FNP". Retrieved 2019-08-01.
- ^ "Jerzy Jedlicki nie żyje. Historyk miał 87 lat". Retrieved 2019-08-01.