Jan Maria Piskorski

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Jan M. Piskorski (* 1956 in Stettin ) is a Polish historian .

biography

From 1976 to 1979 he studied history, archives , Polish and classical philology in Poznan . After completing his doctorate, he went to the University of Göttingen from 1988 to 1989 . In 1991 he completed his habilitation in Poznan with Gerard Labuda with a thesis on the rural colonization of Pomerania in the late Middle Ages . Between 1992 and 2005 he headed the scientific publishing house PTPN in Poznan. In addition to numerous mediaeval works, he also deals with questions of the history of science and the history of Central and Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as the question of human rights, especially in Central Europe. He is also very active in the field of journalism, especially in Poland and in German-speaking countries. In autumn 2005 his book on the dispute over the project of a “ center against expulsions ” was published in German . In the spring of 2006 he criticized the new Polish Deputy Prime Minister Andrzej Lepper , who had praised Adolf Hitler's economic policy, in an open letter . From 2000–2006 he was deputy chairman of the Joint German-Polish Textbook Commission of UNESCO and from 2006–2007 chairman of the human rights foundation "Humanity in Action Poland". He was also visiting professor at the Universities of Mainz and Halle (Saale). Piskorski is now Professor of Comparative History of Europe at the University of Szczecin .

Works (selection)

  • Miasta Księstwa Szczecińskiego do połowy XIV wieku (= Prace Komisji Historycznej. Vol. 40). Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warszawa 1987, ISBN 83-01-06942-2 (2nd edition. Wydawnictwo Poznańskiego Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Nauk, Poznań et al. 2005, ISBN 83-7063-453-2 ).
  • Kolonizacja wiejska Pomorza Zachodniego w XIII iw początkach XIV wieku na tle procesów osadniczych w średniowiecznej Europie (= Prace Komisji Historycznej. Vol. 41). Wydawnictwo Poznańskiego Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Nauk, Poznań 1990, ISBN 83-7063-006-5 (2nd unchanged edition. (= Poznańskie Towarzystwo Przyjaciól Nauk. Wznowienia. Vol. 27). Ibid 2005, ISBN 83-7063-466-4 ).
  • as editor with Bogdan Wachowiak and Edward Włodarczyk: Stettin. Brief history of the city. Translated by Eligiusz Janus and Andreas Warnecke. Wydawnictwo Poznańskiego Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Nauk, Poznań 1994, ISBN 83-7063-079-0 (2nd unchanged edition, ibid 1998; in English as: A short History of Szczecin, ibid 2002, ISBN 83-7063-332-3 ).
  • as editor: Pomerania through the ages. Zamek Książąt Pomorskich, Szczecin 1999, ISBN 83-906184-8-6 .
  • as editor with Jörg Hackmann and Rudolf Jaworski : "German East Research" and "Polish West Research" in the field of tension between science and politics. A comparison of disciplines (= German East Research and Polish West Research. Vol. 1). With an afterword by Michael Burleigh . fiber-Verlag et al., Osnabrück et al. 2002, ISBN 3-929759-58-6 .
  • Historiographical Approaches to Medieval Colonization of East Central Europe. A Comparative Analysis Against the Background of Other European Inter-ethnic Colonization Processes in the Middle Ages (= East European Monographs. Vol. 611). East Europe Monographs et al., Boulder CO 2002, ISBN 0-88033-509-2 .
  • Pomorze plemienne. Historia - Archeologia - Językoznawstwo. SORUS et al., Poznań et al. 2002, ISBN 83-87133-80-9 .
  • Polacy i Niemcy. Czy przeszłość musi być przeszkodą? Wokół dyskusji o wysiedleniach i tzw. Centrum przeciw Wypędzeniom. Wydawnictwo Poznańskie, Poznań 2004, ISBN 83-7177-354-4 (In German: Expulsion and German-Polish history. A pamphlet (= publications of the German-Polish Society Federal Association. Vol. 8). Translated from the Polish by Andreas Warnecke. fiber-Verlag, Osnabrück 2005, ISBN 3-929759-96-9 (2nd edition, ibid 2007, ISBN 978-3-938400-33-3 ).
  • The chased . Flight and displacement in Europe in the 20th century. Siedler, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8275-0025-0 (Polish: Migracje przymusowe i uchodzcy w dwudziestowiecznej Europie WYGNANCY .).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Humanity in Action. Annual Report 2005 - 2006 , New York, pp. 34f. (PDF; 1.4 MB), accessed on February 22, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Piskorski, Jan Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Piskorski, Jan M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin