Piotr Wandycz

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Piotr Stefan Wandycz (born September 20, 1923 in Krakow ; died July 29, 2017 in Branford , Connecticut ) was a Polish - American historian .

Life

Piotr Wandycz grew up in Lemberg, Poland at the time. When the Second World War broke out, the family fled from the now Soviet-occupied eastern Poland via Romania to France, where he attended a Polish boarding school in Villard-de-Lans in Vichy France . He began studying at Grenoble University before fling to England in 1942. There he became a soldier in the Polish Army . After the war, Wandycz studied at Cambridge University and received his doctorate (Ph.D.) from the London School of Economics in 1951 . A stay at the Collège d'Europe led to his first scientific essay.

Wandycz moved with two sisters to the USA at the end of 1951 , where he was only able to find a job in the scientific community in 1954 with the help of Feliks Gross . Until 1966 he worked at Indiana University Bloomington , since 1960 he was an American citizen. In 1966 he became an assistant professor at Yale University , where he held a chair for Russian and Eastern European history from 1968 until his retirement in 1997.

Wandycz was the author of 18 books and numerous magazine articles and specialist reviews. After the political change in Poland, he became a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1993) and the Polish Academy of Learning (PAU) (1991) and since 1992 an honorary member of the Polish Historical Society . He also received Polish citizenship.

Wandycz received 1962 and 1989 the George Louis Beer Prize of the American Historical Association (AHA) for his diplomatic history works France and her eastern allies, 1919-1925 and The Twilight of French Eastern Alliances, 1926-1936 . He was a Guggenheim Fellow and has received several honorary doctorates.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Great Powers and East Central Europe from the Berlin Congress to the fall of the Berlin Wall: (1878 - 1989) . Oskar Halecki Lecture 2004: Annual Lecture of the GWZO. Leipziger Universitäts-Verlag, Leipzig, 2006. In it: Frank Hadler: Piotr S. Wandycz - A Polish Émigré Historian of the history of East Central Europe . Pp. 3-11
  • with Michael Alfred Peszke: The Polish Underground Army, the Western Allies, and the Failure of Strategic Unity in World War II. Mcfarland, 2004
  • Freedom and its price . IWM lectures on the modern history of Central Europe, Passagen, Vienna, 1993
  • The price of freedom: a history of East Central Europe from the Middle Ages to the present . Routledge, London / New York, 1992
  • Polish diplomacy 1914-1945: aims and achievements: a lecture in English and Polish: together with a bibliographical essay on works dealing with recent Polish diplomatic history Orbis Books, London, 1988
  • The Twilight of French Eastern Alliances, 1926-1936: French-Czechoslovak-Polish Relations from Locarno to the Remilitarization of the Rhineland . PUP, Princeton, 1988
  • The United States and Poland . Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Massachusetts), 1980
  • The lands of partitioned Poland, 1795-1918 . University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1974
  • Soviet-Polish relations, 1917-1921 . Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1969
  • France and her eastern allies, 1919-1925 . University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1962
  • Czechoslovak-Polish Confederation and the Great Powers, 1940-43 . Indiana University, Bloomington, 1956

literature

  • Marek Kornat, Sławomir Nowinowski, Rafał Stobiecki (eds.): Piotr Wandycz. Historyk - emigrant - intelektualista . Oficyna Wydawn. Epigram, Bydgoszcz, 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Piotr Wandycz Obituary . Beecher & Bennett Funeral Service, accessed August 1, 2017.
  2. ^ Piotr Stefan Wandycz. Doctor Honoris Causa. Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego . Curriculum vitae and laudation for the honorary doctorate by Jerzy Kłoczowski at the Catholic University of Lublin , 2004, ISBN 83-7363-199-2 , accessed on August 1, 2017 (pdf, 405 kB, Polish).
personal data
SURNAME Wandycz, Piotr
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wandycz, Piotr Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish-American historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Krakow
DATE OF DEATH 29th July 2017
Place of death Branford (Connecticut)