Wojciech Lipoński

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Wojciech Lipoński (born December 16, 1942 in Sosnowiec ) is a Polish Anglicist, historian, sports historian and successful athlete.

Athletic career

Liponski was part of the golden age of the Polish 400 m run. At the 1964 Summer Olympics, he won the bronze medal with the Polish 4 x 400 m relay. In the same year he was part of the season that improved the Polish record to 3: 06.8 min. In 1965 he took part in the European Athletics Cup in the 4 x 400 m relay in Stuttgart. In 1966 he ran his best time of 46.9 seconds.

Scientific career

Liponski's career is closely linked to Poznan , where he did not study as an athlete at the sports college but at the university. Here he successfully completed his MA exam in Polish language and literature in 1967. It helped him that as an Upper Silesian, in addition to Polish, he could speak German from the start and learned English intensively. He was from the Department of Polish-British relations and history made in which he in Polish culture and folklore in 1972 graduated in 1977 with a thesis on the Polish-British cultural relations habilitation was. In 1975/76 he was a one-year scholarship holder at the University of Florida in Gainesville . Since he was not involved in the Communist Party and instead worked on sports and literature as well as a humanistic encyclopedia of sports , he was not dismissed as a former top athlete, but was not promoted despite his habilitation. Only in 1995 did he get a full professorship for British-Polish relations in cultural studies at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan , combined with a professorship at the Sports University in Poznan , the Wykładowcy Akademii Wychowania Fizycznego im. Eugeniusza Piaseckiego for Olympism. In 2012 he retired, but continued his career as a senior professor at the University of Szczecin with the same focus. From 1992 to 2001 he was a regular lecturer at the International Olympic Academy (IOA) in Olympia and has been the IOA's Supervising Professor since then . Since 1987 he has been the editor of Polish-Anglo-Saxon Studies , Poznań, and from 1989 to 2001 he was the responsible member for Eastern Europe of the editorial board of the International Journal of the History of sport.

In Germany his work is best known through Arnd Krüger and Roland Naul . The WorldCat has 132 works by / about him.

Publications (selection)

  • Zapomniani piewcy sportu , Warszawa, Wydawnictwo Sport i Turystyka (1970)
  • 25 lat w służbie sportu polskiego , Księga pamiątkowa z okazji srebrnego jubileuszu WKS Zawisza, Bydgoszcz 1971
  • Ucieczka ze stadionu , Warszawa, Instytut Wydawniczy PAX (1972)
  • Sport-literatura-sztuka , Warszawa, Wydawnictwo sport i Turystyka (1974)
  • Polska a Brytania , Poznań, Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM (1978)
  • Jak biegać po zdrowie? poradnik treningowy, Krajowa Agencja wydawnicza, Warszawa 1985, ISBN 83-7648-772-8 .
  • Humanistyczna encyklopedia sportu (1987) ISBN 83-217-2448-5
  • Dzieje sportu polskiego , Poznań, Wyd. Podsiedlik-Raniowski i Spółka (1998 i kilka nast.) ISBN wyd. I 83-7083-887-1
  • Polacy na olimpiadach , Wyd. Podsiedlik-Raniowski i Spółka, Vol. I 2000, ISBN 83-7212-315-2 ; Vol. II, with Seweryn Lipoński, Publicat, Poznań 2008
  • Narodziny cywilizacji Wysp Brytyjskich, Vol. I SAWW, Poznań 1995; Vol. II Bene Nati, Poznań 1998; Vol. III and IV Wydawnictwo Poznańskie, Poznań 2001 and 2017; ISBN 978-83-7976-654-3
  • Encyklopedia sportów świata , Poznań, Atena (2001), UNESCO, wydana również w innych wersjach językowych pod patronatem UNESCO:
  • Rochwist i palant. Studying etnologiczne dawnych polskich sportów i gier ruchowych , Poznań Dział Wydawnictw AWF (2004) ISBN 83-88923-36-6
  • Historia Sportu , Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN (2012) ISBN 978-83-01-17001-1
  • Kultura europejska a historiografia zachodnia ignorująca Europę na wschód od Łaby , Opuscula Gniesniensia, Gniezno 2014, ISBN 978-83-60251-79-9
  • Landmarks in British History and Culture , Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, Poznań 2015, ISBN 978-83-232-2929-2 ; Vol. II 2016, ISBN 978-83-232-3110-3
  • The Truth of Sport, Szczecin, Faculty of Physical Culture and Health Promotion, University of Szczecin (2016) ISBN 978-83-7972-078-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Record sztafety 4 x 400 , “Stadium. Dodatek sportowych Nowin Rzeszowskich ”1964, 24 sierpnia, nr 34, s. 2.
  2. ↑ Athletics National Records Evolution 1912-2006
  3. ↑ https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/fhsp20/current auf. 26th Nov 2019
  4. ↑ https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=%27%27%27Wojciech+Lipo%C5%84ski%22&fq=&dblist=638&fc=ap:_50&qt=show_more_ap%3A&cookie auf. Nov 25, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Lipoński, Wojciech
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish English scholar, historian and athlete
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Sosnowiec