Bogdan Suchodolski

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Bogdan Suchodolski (born December 27, 1903 in Sosnowiec , † October 2, 1992 in Konstancin-Jeziorna ) was a Polish science and cultural historian, educator and philosopher. He was Senior Marshal of the Sejm from 1985 to 1989 .

Suchodolski studied pedagogy in Kraków and Warsaw, graduating in 1925, and then traveled to Paris and Berlin. In 1938 he became a professor in Lviv , but returned to Warsaw in 1939, where he taught during the war. From 1946 to 1970 he was a professor at the University of Warsaw . 1958 to 1968 he was director of the institute for educational sciences at the university.

Suchodolski was regarded as a respected representative of humanistic (and socialist) educational ideals rooted in the national culture in Poland and maintained many international contacts.

In 1946 he became a member of the Polska Akademia Umiejętności (PAU) and he was a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (from 1969 in its Presidium). In 1983 he became chairman of the Polish National Culture Council. He was one of the founders of UNESCO in London in 1945.

He was an honorary doctor in Berlin, at the Lomonossow University and at the University of Padua.

Suchodolski received the Koyré Medal in 1971 for the two-volume Polish history of science which he and his colleagues edited and wrote (Warsaw 1970).

Fonts

  • Polish culture in the Renaissance period, 1958
  • Anthropologie philosophique de la Renaissance, 1976
  • Origins of Modern Human Philosophy, Warsaw 1968, 1968 (Polish)
  • Development of Modern Human Philosophy, Warsaw 1967 (Polish)
  • History of Polish Culture, Warsaw 1986
  • A History of Polish Culture. Interpress Publisher, Warsaw 1986
  • Foundations of the Marxist Theory of Education, 1961
  • Socialist Education Theory, 1974

literature

  • Hermann Röhrs: Obituary for an educational humanist: Bogdan Suchodolski, 1903-1992, International Review of Education, Volume 39, 1993, pp. 333-336
  • Boguslav Chmielowski: The Pedagogy of Culture by Bogdan Suchodolski (1903-1992), European Education, Volume 29, 1997, pp. 47-53
personal data
SURNAME Suchodolski, Bogdan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish science historian, educator and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Sosnowiec
DATE OF DEATH 2nd October 1992
Place of death Konstancin-Jeziorna