Kazimierz Żygulski

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Kazimierz Żygulski (born December 8, 1919 in Lviv ; † February 23, 2012 in Warsaw ) was a Polish cultural sociologist , university professor and politician who was Minister for Culture and Art of the People's Republic of Poland between 1982 and 1986 .

Life

After attending the Humanistic Gymnasium in Lviv, Żygulski began studying law at the University of Lviv in 1937 and graduated after the first occupation of Lviv by the Red Army in 1941. During his studies he was involved in democratic clubs and the Stronnictwo Demokratyczne (SD), the Democratic Party founded in 1939 by Mieczysław Michałowicz , among others .

At the time of the occupation of Lviv by the Wehrmacht in the course of Operation Barbarossa , in 1941 he became Lviv's representative on the council of the Polish government in exile and a judge at a special court. Because of his involvement in the work of the government-in-exile, he was arrested by the NKVD in 1944 and sentenced to 15 years of forced labor in gulags in the Komi Republic in north-western Russia .

After more than ten years imprisonment, he went to Poland in 1955 and worked at the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) before working at the Institute for Philosophy and Sociology there from 1959 to 1990. There he took over in 1973 first extraordinary, and finally in 1983 a tidy professor for sociology with a focus on cultural sociology .

On October 9, 1982, Prime Minister Wojciech Jaruzelski appointed him Minister of Culture and Art as successor to Józef Tejchma , and he held this position in the subsequent government of Zbigniew Messner until he was replaced by Aleksander Krawczuk on September 29, 1986.

In addition, Żygulski was involved in several public organizations and in 1983 became a member of the Presidium of the Polish-Soviet Friendship Society ( Towarzystwo Przyjaźni Polsko-Radzieckiej ) and the citizens' committee in preparation for the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising on August 1, 1944. He was still there from 1986 to 1989 member of the National Committee for the Memorials in Grunwald and between 1987 and 1989 chairman of the Polish Committee for UNESCO and member of the Executive Council of UNESCO in Paris . Finally, after his retirement in 1990, he was also rector and professor at the University of Social and Economic Affairs ( Wyższa Szkoła Społeczno-Ekonomiczna ) in Warsaw.

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  • Wstep do zagadnień kultury , Warsaw, 1972

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personal data
SURNAME Żygulski, Kazimierz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish sociologist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Lviv
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 2012
Place of death Warsaw