Paweł Machcewicz
Paweł Mateusz Machcewicz (born April 27, 1966 in Warsaw ) is a Polish historian and was the founding director of the Museum of the Second World War ( Muzeum II Wojny Światowej ) in Gdansk until April 2017 .
Life
In 1989 Machcewicz graduated from Warsaw University with a degree in history . He then devoted himself to research at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences . He received his PhD in 1993 and another degree in Political Theory in 2000 . Among other things, he received a Fulbright scholarship at Georgetown University . Machcewicz taught at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń ( Thorn ).
Machcewicz was co-editor of the popular historical journal Mówią wieki from 1999 to 2006 . From 2000 to 2006 he was President of the Biuro Edukacji Publicznej (Office of Education) at the Institute for National Remembrance ( Instytut Pamięci Narodowej , IPN).
On September 1, 2008, Machcewicz became an advisor to Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk . Shortly afterwards he was appointed founding director of the Gdansk Museum. As a Tusk confidante, he received the termination of his employment contract by the PiS government on January 24, 2017 . Due to the legal proceedings surrounding the merging of the museum with the planned Westerplatte Museum , he remained in office and was able to open the museum on March 23, 2017.
Following a ruling by the Supreme Administrative Court in Warsaw on April 5, 2017, Machcewicz was released the following day. The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage announced the merger of the two museums and appointed the historian Karol Nawrocki as his successor.
Machcewicz was born with the historian Anna Machcewicz. Rusinowska is married and has two children.
Honors (selection)
- Jerzy Giedroyc Prize, 2001
- Medal Komisji Edukacji Narodowej, 2008.
Fonts (selection)
- Edmund Dmitrów; Paweł Machcewicz; Tomasz Szarota: The beginning of the annihilation. On the murder of the Jews in Jedwabne and the surrounding area in the summer of 1941 . Translation from the Polish Beate Kosmala. Osnabrück: fiber, 2004. ISBN 978-3-929759-87-7 .
- Emigracja w polityce międzynarodowej. 1999
- Historia Hiszpanii. (Co-author) 1998
- "Monachijska menażeria", walka z Radiem Wolna Europe 1950-1989. 2007
- Polski rok 1956. 1993
- Władysław Gomułka. Wydawnictwa Szkolne i Pedagogiczne, 1995, 84 pages. (Biography of Władysław Gomułka )
- Wokół Jedwabnego Volume 1–2 (ed.) 2002
- Zranione miasto. Poznań w czerwcu 1956 roku. (Co-author) 2003
- Rebellious Satellite: Poland 1956. Stanford University Press, 2009, 320 pages. ISBN 978-0804762052 (engl.)
literature
- Judith Leister: A museum as a battlefield . Interview, in: NZZ , June 24, 2017, p. 25
Web links
- Literature by and about Paweł Machcewicz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Paweł Machcewicz in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- nauka-polska.pl: Paweł Mateusz Machcewicz (Database of Polish Science, Polish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gerhard Gnauck: The long shadow of the war , in: FAZ from March 26, 2017, p. 11
- ↑ Ministry of Culture and National Heritage: Muzeum II Wojny Światowej i Muzeum Westerplatte i Wojny 1939 połączone (April 6, 2017, Polish)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Machcewicz, Paweł |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Machcewicz, Paweł Mateusz (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 27, 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw , Poland |