Jan Baszkiewicz

Jan Michał Baszkiewicz (born January 3, 1930 in Warsaw ; † January 27, 2011 ) was a Polish legal scholar , historian and university professor who dealt in particular with legal history and the history of France .

biography

After attending school, Baszkiewicz began studying law at the University of Warsaw in 1951 and, after completing his studies, earned a doctorate in law in 1955 . He then became a lecturer at the Polska Akademia Nauk (PAN), the Polish Academy of Sciences, in 1956 , where he was appointed associate professor in 1965 and full professor in 1972.

In addition, he accepted a professorship at the University of Breslau as early as 1959 , before moving to the newly founded Silesian University in Katowice in 1968 . In 1973 he finally became professor and head of the Department of the History of Political Doctrines of the Faculty of Journalism and Political Science at the University of Warsaw.

In addition, Baszkiewicz first became a Corresponding Member in 1986, then in 1994 a member of the Polska Akademia Nauk and was also a member of the Warsaw Scientific Society and a member of the editorial board of the monthly Państwo i Prawo (State and Law) and the semi-annual Czasopisma Prawno-Historycznego (Legal-Historical Journal) . He was also a member of the program committee of Polski Przegląd Dyplomatyczny , a bimonthly magazine for international affairs.

As a university lecturer, he dealt with the history of political thought, the state and law, shifting his focus over time from the history of the Middle Ages to the history of France and in particular the French Revolution . As a recognized expert on the history of France, he and Stefan Meller advised the director Andrzej Wajda on his film Danton (1983).

He was buried in the Evangelical Reformed Cemetery in Warsaw.

Publications

In the course of his teaching and research activities, he published around 70 specialist articles as well as several specialist books such as:

• Powszechna historia państwa i prawa, t. 1, Starożytność i wieki średnie , 1964 (The Universal History of State and Law, Volume 1, Antiquity and the Middle Ages)
• Polska czasów Łokietka , 1968 (Poland at the time of Władysław I. Ellenlang )
• Historia Francji , 1st edition 1974, 6th edition 2008 (History of France)
• Maksymilian Robespierre , 1st edition 1976, 2nd edition 1989
• Rewolucja francuska 1789–1794: społeczeństwo obywatelskie , co-author Stefan Meller, 1983 (The French Revolution 1798–1794: Civil Society)
• Ludwik XVI , 1st edition 1983, 2nd edition 1985
• Richelieu , 1st edition 1984, 2nd edition 1995
• Nowy człowiek, nowy naród, nowy świat: mitologia i rzeczywistość rewolucji francuskiej , 1993 (New man, new people, new world: the mythology and reality of the French Revolution)
• Anatomia bonapartyzmu , 2003 (Anatomy of Bonapartism )
• Odnowienie Królestwa Polskiego 1295–1320 , 2008 ( renewal of the Polish kingdom from 1295 to 1320 )

Web links

• Zmarł prof. Jan Baszkiewicz