University of Warsaw - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The University of Warsaw is the largest university

University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is an organisation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...

in Poland and one of the most prestigious, ranked as best Polish university in 2010 and 2011. Positioned byTimes Higher Education Supplement as the second-best Polish university among the world's top 500 in 2006.

1816–1831

The Royal University of Warsaw was established in 1816, when the partitions of Poland

Partitions of Poland

The Partitions of Poland or Partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth took place in the second half of the 18th century and ended the existence of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, resulting in the elimination of sovereign Poland for 123 years...

separated Warsaw

Warsaw

Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...

from the oldest and most influential Polish academic center, in Kraków

Kraków

Kraków also Krakow, or Cracow , is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life...

. The first to be established in Congress Poland

Congress Poland

The Kingdom of Poland , informally known as Congress Poland , created in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna, was a personal union of the Russian parcel of Poland with the Russian Empire...

were the Law School and the Medical School. In 1816 Tsar

Tsar

Tsar is a title used to designate certain European Slavic monarchs or supreme rulers. As a system of government in the Tsardom of Russia and Russian Empire, it is known as Tsarist autocracy, or Tsarism...

Alexander I

Alexander I of Russia

Alexander I of Russia , served as Emperor of Russia from 23 March 1801 to 1 December 1825 and the first Russian King of Poland from 1815 to 1825. He was also the first Russian Grand Duke of Finland and Lithuania....

permitted the Polish authorities to create a university, comprising five departments: Law and Administration, Medicine, Philosophy, Theology, and Art and Humanities. The university soon grew to 800 students and 50 professors.

After most of the students and professors took part in the November 1830 Uprising

November Uprising

The November Uprising , Polish–Russian War 1830–31 also known as the Cadet Revolution, was an armed rebellion in the heartland of partitioned Poland against the Russian Empire. The uprising began on 29 November 1830 in Warsaw when the young Polish officers from the local Army of the Congress...

the university was closed down.

1857–1869

After the Crimean War

Crimean War

The Crimean War was a conflict fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the French Empire, the British Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Sardinia. The war was part of a long-running contest between the major European powers for influence over territories of the declining...

, Russia entered a brief period of liberalization, the "Post-Sevastopol Thaw." Permission was given to create a Polish medical and surgical academy (Akademia Medyko-Chirurgiczna) in Warsaw. In 1862 departments of Law and Administration, Philology and History, and Mathematics and Physics were opened. The newly established academy gained importance and was soon renamed the "Main School" (Szkoła Główna). However, after the January 1863 Uprising

January Uprising

The January Uprising was an uprising in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth against the Russian Empire...

the liberal period ended and all Polish-language

Polish language

Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...

schools were closed again. During its short existence, the Main School educated over 3,000 students, many of whom became part of the backbone of Polish intelligentsia

Intelligentsia

The intelligentsia is a social class of people engaged in complex, mental and creative labor directed to the development and dissemination of culture, encompassing intellectuals and social groups close to them...

1870–1915

The Main School was replaced with a Russian-language "Imperial University of Warsaw". Its purpose was to provide education for the Russian military garrison of Warsaw, the majority of students (up to 70% out of an average of 1 500 to 2 000 students) were Poles. The tsarist authorities believed that the Russian university would become a perfect way to Russify Polish society and spent significant a significant sum on building a new university campus. However, various underground organizations soon started to grow and the students became their leaders in Warsaw. Most notable of these groups (the supporters of Polish revival and the socialists

Socialism

Socialism is an economic system characterized by social ownership of the means of production and cooperative management of the economy; or a political philosophy advocating such a system. "Social ownership" may refer to any one of, or a combination of, the following: cooperative enterprises,...

) joined the ranks of the 1905 Revolution. Afterwards a boycott

Boycott

A boycott is an act of voluntarily abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with a person, organization, or country as an expression of protest, usually for political reasons...

of Russian educational facilities was proclaimed and the number of Polish students dropped to below 10%. Most of the students who wanted to continue their education left for Galicia and Western Europe.

After the fall of the January Rising (1863–1864) and the authorities' decision to convert the Main School into a Russian-language university, which functioned under the name of Imperial University for 46 years, there were two times when the question of moving the university into Russia was considered. During the 1905–1907 revolution, such a proposal was made by some of the professors, in the face of a boycott of the university by Polish students. Talks on that subject were conducted with a number of Russian cities, including Voronezh

Voronezh

Voronezh is a city in southwestern Russia, the administrative center of Voronezh Oblast. It is located on both sides of the Voronezh River, away from where it flows into the Don. It is an operating center of the Southeastern Railway , as well as the center of the Don Highway...

and Saratov

Saratov

-Modern Saratov:The Saratov region is highly industrialized, due in part to the rich in natural and industrial resources of the area. The region is also one of the more important and largest cultural and scientific centres in Russia...

. The Russian government finally decided to keep a university in Warsaw, but as a result of the boycott, the university was Russian not only in the sense of the language used, but also of the nationality of its professors and students.

For the second time the question emerged during the First World War, when the military and political situation forced the Russian authorities to evacuate. Beginning from the autumn of 1915, there were two Universities of Warsaw: one Polish, in Warsaw, and another Russian, in Rostov-on-Don

Rostov-on-Don

-History:The mouth of the Don River has been of great commercial and cultural importance since the ancient times. It was the site of the Greek colony Tanais, of the Genoese fort Tana, and of the Turkish fortress Azak...

which functioned until 1917. On 5 May 1917 the Russian Provisional Government decided to close the University of Warsaw. The decision took effect on 1 July 1917; on the same day, the University of the Don, now called Rostov State University (Southern Federal University

Southern Federal University

Southern Federal University , abbreviated as SFedU and formely known as Rostov State University , is a public university in Rostov Oblast, Russia with campuses in Rostov-on-Don and Taganrog.-History:...

since 2006), was inaugurated.

1915–1918

During World War I Warsaw was seized by Germany in 1915. In order to win the Poles for their case and secure the Polish area behind the front lines the governments of Germany and Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary , more formally known as the Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council and the Lands of the Holy Hungarian Crown of Saint Stephen, was a constitutional monarchic union between the crowns of the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary in...

allowed for a certain liberalization of life in Poland. In accordance with the concept of Mitteleuropa
Mitteleuropa
Mitteleuropa is the German term equal to Central Europe. The word has political, geographic and cultural meaning. While it describes a geographical location, it also is the word denoting a political concept of a German-dominated and exploited Central European union that was put into motion during...

, German military authorities permitted several Polish social and educational societies to be recreated. One of these was Warsaw University. The Polish language was reintroduced, and the professors were allowed to return to work. In order not to let the Polish patriotic movement out of control the number of lecturers was kept low (usually not more than 50), but there were no limits on the number of students. Until 1918 their number rose from a mere 1,000 to over 4,500.

1918–1939

After Poland regained its independence in 1918, the University of Warsaw began to grow very quickly. It was reformed; all the important posts (the rector

Rector

The word rector has a number of different meanings; it is widely used to refer to an academic, religious or political administrator...

, senate

Senate

A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a legislature or parliament. There have been many such bodies in history, since senate means the assembly of the eldest and wiser members of the society and ruling class...

, deans and councils) became democratically elected, and the state spent considerable amounts of money to modernize and equip it. Many professors returned from exile and cooperated in the effort. By the late 1920s the level of education in Warsaw had reached that of western Europe.

By the beginning of the 1930s the University of Warsaw had become the largest university in Poland, with over 250 lecturers and 10,000 students. However, the financial problems of the newly-reborn state did not allow for free education, and students had to pay a tuition fee

Tuition

Tuition payments, known primarily as tuition in American English and as tuition fees in British English, Canadian English, Australian English, New Zealand English and Indian English, refers to a fee charged for educational instruction during higher education.Tuition payments are charged by...

for their studies (an average monthly salary for a year). Also, the number of scholarship

Scholarship

A scholarship is an award of financial aid for a student to further education. Scholarships are awarded on various criteria usually reflecting the values and purposes of the donor or founder of the award.-Types:...

s was very limited, and only approximately 3% of students were able to get one. Despite these economic problems, the University of Warsaw grew rapidly. New departments were opened, and the main campus

Campus

A campus is traditionally the land on which a college or university and related institutional buildings are situated. Usually a campus includes libraries, lecture halls, residence halls and park-like settings...

was expanded.

After the death of Józef Piłsudski the senate of the University of Warsaw changed its name to "Józef Piłsudski University of Warsaw" (Uniwersytet Warszawski im. Józefa Piłsudskiego). A time of troubles began for academics in Poland as rightist students proceeded to organize

Community organizing

Community organizing is a process where people who live in proximity to each other come together into an organization that acts in their shared self-interest. A core goal of community organizing is to generate durable power for an organization representing the community, allowing it to influence...

anti-Semitic demonstrations and riots – the Sanacja
Sanacja
Sanation was a Polish political movement that came to power after Józef Piłsudski's May 1926 Coup d'État. Sanation took its name from his watchword—the moral "sanation" of the Polish body politic...

government reacted to limit the autonomy of the universities. The government was forced to back down in 1937 and the right-wing followers of the nationalist

Nationalism

Nationalism is a political ideology that involves a strong identification of a group of individuals with a political entity defined in national terms, i.e. a nation. In the 'modernist' image of the nation, it is nationalism that creates national identity. There are various definitions for what...

parties were peacefully pacified, but professors and students remained divided for the rest of the 1930s as the system of segregated seating for Jewish students, known as ghetto benches

Ghetto benches

Ghetto benches or bench Ghetto was a form of official segregation in the seating of students, introduced in Poland's universities beginning in 1935 at Lwow Polytechnic. By 1937, when this practice became conditionally legalized, most rectors at other higher education institutions had adopted this...

, was implemented customarily, not institutionally, which should be noted. There was no such legal institution as backed such discriminatory deeds in Poland. Rather, it can be said that there was no legal institution to clearly ban such deeds there despite Pilsudski's pursuit of the Jagiellonian Ideology that is to establish equal multi-ethnic Poland to resume the principle of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was a dualistic state of Poland and Lithuania ruled by a common monarch. It was the largest and one of the most populous countries of 16th- and 17th‑century Europe with some and a multi-ethnic population of 11 million at its peak in the early 17th century...

's Constitution of May 3, 1791

Constitution of May 3, 1791

The Constitution of May 3, 1791 was adopted as a "Government Act" on that date by the Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Historian Norman Davies calls it "the first constitution of its type in Europe"; other scholars also refer to it as the world's second oldest constitution...

, which was rather a technical matter. The case of discrimination against the social minority can be compared to the era before the Civil Rights Movement

Civil rights movement

The civil rights movement was a worldwide political movement for equality before the law occurring between approximately 1950 and 1980. In many situations it took the form of campaigns of civil resistance aimed at achieving change by nonviolent forms of resistance. In some situations it was...

in the United States.

1939–1944

For more details on this period see: Underground Education in Poland During World War II

After the Polish Defensive War

Invasion of Poland (1939)

The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign or 1939 Defensive War in Poland and the Poland Campaign in Germany, was an invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the start of World War II in Europe...

of 1939 the German authorities of the General Gouvernment closed all the institutions of higher education in Poland. The equipment and most of the laboratories were taken to Germany and divided amongst the German universities while the main campus of the University of Warsaw was turned into military barracks.

German racist

Racism

Racism is the belief that inherent different traits in human racial groups justify discrimination. In the modern English language, the term "racism" is used predominantly as a pejorative epithet. It is applied especially to the practice or advocacy of racial discrimination of a pernicious nature...

theories assumed that no education of Poles was needed and the whole nation was to be turned into uneducated serf

SERF

A spin exchange relaxation-free magnetometer is a type of magnetometer developed at Princeton University in the early 2000s. SERF magnetometers measure magnetic fields by using lasers to detect the interaction between alkali metal atoms in a vapor and the magnetic field.The name for the technique...

s of the German race. Education in Polish was banned and punished with death. However, many professors organized the so-called "Secret University of Warsaw" (Tajny Uniwersytet Warszawski). The lectures were held in small groups in private apartments and the attendants were constantly risking discovery and death. However, the net of underground faculties spread rapidly and by 1944 there were more than 300 lecturers and 3,500 students at various courses.

Most of the students took part in the Warsaw Uprising

Warsaw Uprising

The Warsaw Uprising was a major World War II operation by the Polish resistance Home Army , to liberate Warsaw from Nazi Germany. The rebellion was timed to coincide with the Soviet Union's Red Army approaching the eastern suburbs of the city and the retreat of German forces...

as the soldiers of Armia Krajowa

Armia Krajowa

The Armia Krajowa , or Home Army, was the dominant Polish resistance movement in World War II German-occupied Poland. It was formed in February 1942 from the Związek Walki Zbrojnej . Over the next two years, it absorbed most other Polish underground forces...

and Szare Szeregi

Szare Szeregi

"Gray Ranks" was a codename for the underground Polish Scouting Association during World War II.The wartime organisation was created on 27 September 1939, actively resisted and fought German occupation in Warsaw until 18 January 1945, and contributed to the resistance operations of the Polish...

. The German-held campus of the University was turned into a well-fortified area with bunkers and machine gun

Machine gun

A machine gun is a fully automatic mounted or portable firearm, usually designed to fire rounds in quick succession from an ammunition belt or large-capacity magazine, typically at a rate of several hundred rounds per minute....

nests. Also, it was located close to the buildings occupied by the German garrison of Warsaw. Heavy fights for the campus started on the first day of the Uprising, but the partisans were not able to break through the fortified gates. Several assaults were bloodily repelled and the campus remained in German hands until the end of the fights.

During the uprising and the occupation 63 professors were killed, either during fights or as an effect of German policy of extermination of Polish inteligentsia. The University lost 60% of its buildings during the fighting in 1944. Up to 80% of the collections (including priceless works of art and books donated to the University) were either destroyed or transported to Germany, never to return.

1945–1956

After World War II it was not clear whether the university would be restored or whether Warsaw itself would be rebuilt. However, many professors who had survived the war returned to Poland and began organizing the university from scratch. In December 1945, lectures resumed for almost 4,000 students in the ruins of the campus, and the buildings were gradually rebuilt. The lost collections were compensated with several former German collections from territories awarded to Poland

Territorial changes of Poland after World War II

The territorial changes of Poland after World War II were very extensive. In 1945, following the Second World War, Poland's borders were redrawn following the decisions made at the Potsdam Conference of 1945 at the insistence of the Soviet Union...

, among them large parts of the library of count Schaffgotsch, the biggest private library of Germany, the library of the Gymnasium Carolineum in Nysa, three libraries in Legnica (among them the Bibliotheka Rudolphina) and several smaller collections from Wałbrzych, Żagań, Staniszów, Złotoryja, Lubań, Książ, Oleśnicka, Kaliningrad, Szczecin, Stargard Szczeciński and Markowo. Until the late 1940s the university remained relatively independent. However, soon the communist

Communism

Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...

authorities of Poland started to impose controls and the period of Stalinism

Stalinism

Stalinism refers to the ideology that Joseph Stalin conceived and implemented in the Soviet Union, and is generally considered a branch of Marxist–Leninist ideology but considered by some historians to be a significant deviation from this philosophy...

started. Many professors were arrested by the Urząd Bezpieczeństwa (Secret Police), the books were censored

Censorship

thumb|[[Book burning]] following the [[1973 Chilean coup d'état|1973 coup]] that installed the [[Military government of Chile |Pinochet regime]] in Chile...

and ideological criteria in employment of new lecturers and admission of students were introduced. On the other hand, education in Poland became free of charge and the number of young people to receive the state scholarship

Scholarship

s reached 60% of all the students.

1956–1989

After Władysław Gomułka rose to power in Poland in 1956 a brief period of liberalization ensued, though communist ideology still played a major role in most faculties (especially in such faculties as history, law, economics and political science). International cooperation was resumed and the level of education rose, but the government soon started to suppress freedom of thought, which led to increasing unrest among the students. An anti-Semitic and anti-democratic campaign in 1968 led to an outbreak of student demonstrations in Warsaw, which were brutally crushed by the police and militia groups of ordinary workers. As a result, a large number of students and professors were expelled from the university, while some were drafted into the army. Most professors of Jewish descent were forced to emigrate, while the leaders of the democratic movement, Jacek Kuroń

Jacek Kuron

Jacek Jan Kuroń was one of the democratic leaders of opposition in the People's Republic of Poland. Kuroń was a prominent Polish social and political figure; educator and historian; an activist of the Polish Scouting Association; co-founder of the Workers' Defence Committee; twice a Minister of...

and Karol Modzelewski

Karol Modzelewski

Karol Modzelewski is a Polish historian, writer and politician.He is the adopted son of Zygmunt Modzelewski. Professor at the University of Wroclaw and the University of Warsaw, he was a member of the Polish United Workers Party but was expelled from it in 1964 for opposition to some policies of...

, were sentenced to 3.5 years in prison.

Nevertheless, the University remained the centre of free thought and education. What professors could not say during lectures, they expressed during informal meetings with their students. Many of them became leaders and members of the Solidarity movement and other societies of the democratic opposition. The scientists working at the University of Warsaw were also among the most prominent printers of books forbidden by censorship

Censorship

thumb|[[Book burning]] following the [[1973 Chilean coup d'état|1973 coup]] that installed the [[Military government of Chile |Pinochet regime]] in Chile...

Campus

The main campus

Campus

of the University of Warsaw is in downtown Warsaw, in Krakowskie Przedmieście
Krakowskie Przedmiescie
Krakowskie Przedmieście is one of the most impressive and prestigious streets of Poland's capital.Several other Polish cities also have streets named Krakowskie Przedmieście. In Lublin, it is the main and most elegant street...

. It comprises several historic palace

Palace

A palace is a grand residence, especially a royal residence or the home of a head of state or some other high-ranking dignitary, such as a bishop or archbishop. The word itself is derived from the Latin name Palātium, for Palatine Hill, one of the seven hills in Rome. In many parts of Europe, the...

s, most of which had been nationalized in the 19th century. The chief buildings include:

Kazimierzowski Palace
Kazimierzowski Palace
The Kazimierz Palace is a building in Warsaw, Poland, adjacent to the Royal Route, at Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28.Originally built in 1637-41, it was rebuilt in 1660 for King John II Casimir and again in 1765-68, by Domenico Merlini, for the Corps of Cadets established by King Stanisław August...

(Pałac Kazimierzowski) – the seat of the rector
Rector
The word rector has a number of different meanings; it is widely used to refer to an academic, religious or political administrator...

and the senate
Senate
A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a legislature or parliament. There have been many such bodies in history, since senate means the assembly of the eldest and wiser members of the society and ruling class...

;
the Old Library (Stary BUW) – since recent refurbishment, a secondary lecture building;
the Main School (Szkoła Główna) – former seat of the Main School until the January 1863 Uprising
January Uprising
The January Uprising was an uprising in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth against the Russian Empire...

, later the faculty of biology; now, since its refurbishment, the seat of the institute of archaeology;
Auditorium Maximum – the main lecture hall, with seats for several hundred students.

There is also the New Library (Nowy BUW) – an impressive new building with spectacular roof gardens as well as several smaller campuses elsewhere in the city, most notably the physical and chemical center in Banacha

Stefan Banach

Stefan Banach was a Polish mathematician who worked in interwar Poland and in Soviet Ukraine. He is generally considered to have been one of the 20th century's most important and influential mathematicians....

Street (ulica Banacha), where the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Mechanics (MIM) is located.

The University of Warsaw owns a total of 126 buildings. Further construction and a vigorous renovation program are underway at the main campus

Campus

Departments

Applied Linguistics and East-Slavonic Philology http://www.wlsifw.uw.edu.pl/
Applied Social Sciences and Resocialization
Biology http://www.biol.uw.edu.pl
Chemistry http://www.chem.uw.edu.pl/index_en.htm
Economic Sciences http://www.wne.uw.edu.pl
Education
Geography and Regional Studies http://www.wgsr.uw.edu.pl/
Geology http://www.geo.uw.edu.pl/
History http://www.wh.uw.edu.pl/
Journalism and Political Science http://www.wdinp.uw.edu.pl/
Law and Administration http://en.wpia.uw.edu.pl/
Management http://www.wz.uw.edu.pl/
Mathematics, Informatics, and Mechanics http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/english/
Modern Languages
Oriental Studies http://www.orient.uw.edu.pl/
Philosophy and Sociology http://weber.is.uw.edu.pl/ang/index.htm
Physics http://www.fuw.edu.pl/indexe.html
Polish Studies
Psychology http://www.psychologia.pl/ and http://www.psychology.pl

Other institutes

American Studies Center
British Studies Centre
Centre de Civilisation Française et d'Études Francophones
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

auprès de l'Université de Varsovie
Centre for Archaeological Research at Novae
Novae
Archaeological site situated on the Danube in northern Bulgaria, about 4 kilometres east of the modern town Svishtov. A legionary base and late Roman town in the Roman province Moesia Inferior, later Moesia II.-Localisation and topography:...
Centre for Environmental Study
Centre for Europe
Centre for European Regional and Local Studies (EUROREG)
Centre for Foreign Language Teaching
Centre for Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in the Humanities http://www.mish.uw.edu.pl/
Centre for Latin-American
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...

Studies (CESLA)
Centre for Open Multimedia Education
Centre for the Study of Classical Tradition in Poland and East-Central Europe
Centre of Studies in Territorial Self-Government and Local Development
Chaire UNESCO du Developpement Durable de l`Universite de Vaersovie
Comité Polonais de l'Alliance Français
Erasmus of Rotterdam Chair
Heavy Ion
Heavy ion
Heavy ion refers to an ionized atom which is usually heavier than helium. Heavy-ion physics is devoted to the study of extremely hot nuclear matter and the collective effects appearing in such systems, differing from particle physics, which studies the interactions between elementary particles...

Laboratory
Individual Inter-faculty Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Institute of Americas and Europe
Institute of International Relations – host of GMAPIR
GMAPIR
GMAPIR stands for Graduate Master of Arts Program in International Relations. The Program is situated in Warsaw the capital of Poland and is provided by University of Warsaw....
The Robert B.Zajonc Institute for Social Studies http://www.iss.uw.edu.pl/
Inter-faculty Study Programme in Environmental Protection
Interdisciplinary Centre for Behavioural Genetics
Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling http://www.icm.edu.pl/eng/
Physical Education and Sports Centre
Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology
University Centre for Technology Transfer
University College of English Language Teacher Education
University of Warsaw for Foreign Language Teacher Training and European Education

Institutions

Academic Radio Kampus http://www.radiokampus.waw.pl
Institute of Information Science and Book Studies
The Institute of Polish Language and Culture 'Polonicum'
University of Warsaw Libraries

Notable alumni

Jerzy Andrzejewski
Jerzy Andrzejewski
Jerzy Andrzejewski was a prolific Polish author. His novels, Ashes and Diamonds , and Holy Week , have been made into film adaptations by the Oscar-winning Polish director Andrzej Wajda...

(1909–1983), author
Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński
Krzysztof Kamil Baczynski
Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, was a Polish poet and Home Army soldier, one of the most renowned authors of the Generation of Columbuses, the young generation of Polish poets of whom many perished in the Warsaw Uprising.-Biography:...

(1921–1944), poet, Home Army soldier killed in the Warsaw Uprising
Warsaw Uprising
The Warsaw Uprising was a major World War II operation by the Polish resistance Home Army , to liberate Warsaw from Nazi Germany. The rebellion was timed to coincide with the Soviet Union's Red Army approaching the eastern suburbs of the city and the retreat of German forces...
Menachem Begin
Menachem Begin
' was a politician, founder of Likud and the sixth Prime Minister of the State of Israel. Before independence, he was the leader of the Zionist militant group Irgun, the Revisionist breakaway from the larger Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah. He proclaimed a revolt, on 1 February 1944,...

(1913–1992), Zionist, 6th Prime Minister of Israel
Prime Minister of Israel
The Prime Minister of Israel is the head of the Israeli government and the most powerful political figure in Israel . The prime minister is the country's chief executive. The official residence of the prime minister, Beit Rosh Hamemshala is in Jerusalem...

(1977–1983), Nobel Peace Prize
Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.-Background:According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who...

winner (1978)
David Ben-Gurion
David Ben-Gurion
' was the first Prime Minister of Israel.Ben-Gurion's passion for Zionism, which began early in life, led him to become a major Zionist leader and Executive Head of the World Zionist Organization in 1946...

(1886–1973), 1st Prime Minister of Israel (1948–53; 1955–63)
Tadeusz Borowski
Tadeusz Borowski
Tadeusz Borowski was a Polish writer and journalist. His wartime poetry and stories dealing with his experiences as a prisoner at Auschwitz are recognized as classics of Polish literature and had much influence in Central European society.- Early life :...

(1922–1951), poet and writer
Kazimierz Brandys
Kazimierz Brandys
Kazimierz Brandys was a Polish essayist and writer of film scripts.Brandys was born in Łódź. He was the brother of the writer Marian Brandys and husband of the translator Maria Zenowicz. He completed a law degree at the University of Warsaw. He was first published in 1935 as a theatrical critic,...

(1916–2000), writer
Marian Brandys
Marian Brandys
Marian Brandys was a Polish writer and screenwriter born in Wiesbaden.-External links:...

(1912–1998), writer and journalist
Fryderyk Chopin
Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano"....

(1810–1849), pianist and composer
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz (b. 1950), politician, former Prime Minister of Poland (1996–1997), former Marshal of the Sejm (2005)
Joseph Epstein (1911–1944), communist leader of French resistance
Bronisław Geremek (1932–2008), historian and politician
Witold Gombrowicz
Witold Gombrowicz
Witold Marian Gombrowicz was a Polish novelist and dramatist. His works are characterized by deep psychological analysis, a certain sense of paradox and an absurd, anti-nationalist flavor...

(1904–1969), writer
Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz
Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz
Hanna Beata Gronkiewicz-Waltz is a Polish liberal-conservative politician who has been the Mayor of Warsaw since 2 December 2006. She is the first woman to ever hold this position....

(b. 1952), politician, former President of the National Bank of Poland
National Bank of Poland
Narodowy Bank Polski is the central bank of Poland. It controls the issuing of Poland's currency, the złoty. The Bank is headquartered in Warsaw, and has branches in every major Polish town...

(1992–2001), current Mayor of Warsaw (since 2006)
Jan T. Gross
Jan T. Gross
Jan Tomasz Gross is a Polish-American historian and sociologist. He is the Norman B. Tomlinson '16 and '48 Professor of War and Society and Professor of History at Princeton University.- Biography :Jan T...

(b. 1947), historian and writer, Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

professor
Gustaw Herling-Grudziński
Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski
Gustaw Herling-Grudziński was a Polish writer, journalist, essayist and soldier. He is best known for writing a personal account of life in the Soviet gulag - A World Apart.-Biography:...

(1919–2000), journalist, writer and GULag
Gulag
The Gulag was the government agency that administered the main Soviet forced labor camp systems. While the camps housed a wide range of convicts, from petty criminals to political prisoners, large numbers were convicted by simplified procedures, such as NKVD troikas and other instruments of...

survivor
Zofia Helman
Zofia Helman
Zofia Helman is a Polish musicologist and an honorary member of the Polish Composers' Union.-Life:Zofia Helman was born in Radom and studied musicology at the University of Warsaw from 1954-59...

(b. 1937), Polish musicologist
Leonid Hurwicz
Leonid Hurwicz
Leonid "Leo" Hurwicz was a Russian-born American economist and mathematician. His nationality of origin was Polish. He was Jewish. He originated incentive compatibility and mechanism design, which show how desired outcomes are achieved in economics, social science and political science...

(1917–2008), economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize in Economics winner (2007)
Czesław Janczarski (1911–1971), poet and Russian literature
Russian literature
Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia or its émigrés, and to the Russian-language literature of several independent nations once a part of what was historically Russia or the Soviet Union...

translator
Jarosław Kaczyński (b. 1949), politician, former Prime Minister of Poland (2006–2007)
Lech Kaczyński
Lech Kaczynski
Lech Aleksander Kaczyński was Polish lawyer and politician who served as the President of Poland from 2005 until 2010 and as Mayor of Warsaw from 2002 until 22 December 2005. Before he became a president, he was also a member of the party Prawo i Sprawiedliwość...

(1949–2010), politician, former Mayor of Warsaw (2002–2005), former President of Poland (2005–2010)
Aleksander Kamiński
Aleksander Kaminski
Aleksander Kamiński was a Polish school teacher, form tutor, author of Polish Cub Scout and Brownie method, writer, historian, Scoutmaster , and wartime resistance leader under the codenames: Kamyk, Dąbrowski, J...

(1903–1978), writer and one of the leaders of the Polish Scouting
Zwiazek Harcerstwa Polskiego
Związek Harcerstwa Polskiego is the coeducational Polish Scouting organization recognized by the World Organization of the Scout Movement and the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. It was founded in 1918 and currently is the largest Scouting organization in Poland...
Ryszard Kapuściński
Ryszard Kapuscinski
Ryszard Kapuściński was a Polish journalist and writer whose dispatches in book form brought him a global reputation. Also a photographer and poet, he was born in Pińsknow in Belarusin the Kresy Wschodnie or eastern borderlands of the second Polish Republic, into poverty: he would say later that...

(1932–2007), writer and journalist
Mieczysław Karłowicz (1876–1909), composer
Jan Karski
Jan Karski
Jan Karski was a Polish World War II resistance movement fighter and later scholar at Georgetown University. In 1942 and 1943 Karski reported to the Polish government in exile and the Western Allies on the situation in German-occupied Poland, especially the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, and...

(1914–2000), Polish resistance fighter
Leszek Kołakowski (1927–2009), philosopher, historian of philosophy
Bronisław Komorowski (b. 1952), politician, former Marshal of the Sejm (2007–2010), current President of Poland (since 2010)
Alpha Oumar Konaré
Alpha Oumar Konaré
Alpha Oumar Konaré was the President of Mali for two five-year terms , and was Chairperson of the African Union Commission from 2003 to 2008.-Scholarly career:...

, (b. 1946), 3rd President of Mali (1992–2002)
Janusz Korwin-Mikke
Janusz Korwin-Mikke
Janusz Ryszard Korwin-Mikke is a Polish conservative liberal political commentator and politician. He is the leader of the Congress of the New Right, which was formed in 2011 from Freedom and Lawfulness, which he led from its formation in 2009, and the Real Politics Union, which he led from...

(b. 1942), right-wing, conservative-liberal politician and journalist
Marek Kotański
Marek Kotanski
Marek Kotański, was a Polish charity worker and campaigner on behalf of disadvantaged people, including the homeless and those with HIV...

(1942–2002), psychologist and streetworker
Jacek Kuroń
Jacek Kuron
Jacek Jan Kuroń was one of the democratic leaders of opposition in the People's Republic of Poland. Kuroń was a prominent Polish social and political figure; educator and historian; an activist of the Polish Scouting Association; co-founder of the Workers' Defence Committee; twice a Minister of...

(1934–2004), historian, author, social worker and politician
Jan Józef Lipski
Jan Józef Lipski
Jan Józef Lipski was a Polish critic and literature historian, socialist politician, and notable Freemason . As a soldier of the Home Army , he fought in the Warsaw Uprising...

(1926–1991), literature historian, politician
Jerzy Łojek (1932–1986), historian and writer
Tadeusz Mazowiecki
Tadeusz Mazowiecki
Tadeusz Mazowiecki is a Polish author, journalist, philanthropist and Christian-democratic politician, formerly one of the leaders of the Solidarity movement, and the first non-communist prime minister in Central and Eastern Europe after World War II.-Biography:Mazowiecki comes from a Polish...

(b. 1927), author, social worker, journalist, former Prime Minister of Poland (1989–1991)
Adam Michnik
Adam Michnik
Adam Michnik is the editor-in-chief of Gazeta Wyborcza, where he sometimes writes under the pen-names of Andrzej Zagozda or Andrzej Jagodziński. In 1966–1989 he was one of the leading organizers of the illegal, democratic opposition in Poland...

(b. 1946), journalist
Karol Modzelewski
Karol Modzelewski
Karol Modzelewski is a Polish historian, writer and politician.He is the adopted son of Zygmunt Modzelewski. Professor at the University of Wroclaw and the University of Warsaw, he was a member of the Polish United Workers Party but was expelled from it in 1964 for opposition to some policies of...

(b. 1937), historian and politician
Jerzy Neyman
Jerzy Neyman
Jerzy Neyman , born Jerzy Spława-Neyman, was a Polish American mathematician and statistician who spent most of his professional career at the University of California, Berkeley.-Life and career:...

(1894–1981), mathematician and statistician, University of California
University of California
The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University...

professor
Jan Olszewski
Jan Olszewski
Jan Ferdynand Olszewski is a Polish lawyer and political figure. He is best known for serving as Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland from 1991 to 1992....

(b. 1930), lawyer and politician, former Prime Minister of Poland (1991–1992)
Janusz Onyszkiewicz
Janusz Onyszkiewicz
Janusz Adam Onyszkiewicz is a Polish mathematician, alpinist, politician and was a vice-president of the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee from January 2007 until mid-2009.-Biographical note:...

(b. 1937), politician
Maria Ossowska
Maria Ossowska
Maria Ossowska was a Polish sociologist and social philosopher.-Life:...

(1896–1974), sociologist
Bolesław Piasecki (1915–1979), extreme right-wing politician
Bohdan Paczyński
Bohdan Paczynski
Bohdan Paczyński or Bohdan Paczynski was a Polish astronomer, a leading scientist in theory of the evolution of stars, accretion discs and gamma ray bursts....

(1940–2007), astronomer
Longin Pastusiak
Longin Pastusiak
Longin Hieronim Pastusiak is a Polish politician and historian.-Academic career:In 1959 Pastusiak earned his Master of Arts degree form Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, University of Virginia in Charlottesville...

(b. 1935), politician, former Marshal of the Senate of the Republic of Poland
Marshal of the Senate of the Republic of Poland
The Marshal of the Senate of the Republic of Poland is a presiding officer of the Senate of Poland. He or she is also third person according to the Polish order of precedence, after President of the Republic of Poland and Sejm Marshal, and second in line to became Acting President of the Republic...

(2001–2005)
Krzysztof Piesiewicz
Krzysztof Piesiewicz
Krzysztof Marek Piesiewicz is a Polish lawyer, screenwriter, and politician, who is currently a member of the Polish Parliament and head of the Ruch Społeczny or Social Movement Party....

(b. 1945), lawyer and screenwriter
Bolesław Prus (1847–1912), writer
Józef Rotblat (1908–2005), physicist, Nobel Peace Prize
Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.-Background:According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who...

winner (1995)
Stefan Sarnowski
Stefan Sarnowski
Stefan Sarnowski is a Polish philosopher working as professor at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz.- Biography :Stefan Sarnowski graduated from University of Warsaw, and in 1964 obtained his magister degree for the work Marksizm i darwinizm w etyce Kautskiego , with Marek Fritzhand being...

(b. 1939), philosopher
Stanisław Sedlaczek (1892–1941), social worker and one of the leaders of Związek Harcerstwa Polskiego
Zwiazek Harcerstwa Polskiego
Związek Harcerstwa Polskiego is the coeducational Polish Scouting organization recognized by the World Organization of the Scout Movement and the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. It was founded in 1918 and currently is the largest Scouting organization in Poland...
Yitzhak Shamir
Yitzhak Shamir
' is a former Israeli politician, the seventh Prime Minister of Israel, in 1983–84 and 1986–92.-Biography:Icchak Jeziernicky was born in Ruzhany , Russian Empire . He studied at a Hebrew High School in Białystok, Poland. As a youth he joined Betar, the Revisionist Zionist youth movement...

(b. 1915), 7th Prime Minister of Israel
Prime Minister of Israel
The Prime Minister of Israel is the head of the Israeli government and the most powerful political figure in Israel . The prime minister is the country's chief executive. The official residence of the prime minister, Beit Rosh Hamemshala is in Jerusalem...

(1983–1984 and 1986–1992)
Dmitry Strelnikoff
Dmitry Strelnikoff
Dmitry Aleksandrovich Strelnikov is a Russian and Polish writer, biologist and a journalist for television, radio and the press, living in Poland; the graduate of The Correspondence Course of the Mathematic on the M.V...

(b. 1969), Russian writer, biologist and a journalist for television, radio and the press
Alfred Tarski
Alfred Tarski
Alfred Tarski was a Polish logician and mathematician. Educated at the University of Warsaw and a member of the Lwow-Warsaw School of Logic and the Warsaw School of Mathematics and philosophy, he emigrated to the USA in 1939, and taught and carried out research in mathematics at the University of...

(1902–1982), logician and mathematician, important member of the Lwów-Warsaw school of logic
Władysław Tatarkiewicz (1886–1980), philosopher, historian of esthetics
Julian Tuwim
Julian Tuwim
Julian Tuwim , sometimes used pseudonym "Oldlen" when writing song lyrics. He was a Polish poet, born in Łódź, Congress Poland, Russian Empire, of Jewish parents, and educated in Łódź and Warsaw where he studied law and philosophy at Warsaw University...

(1894–1953), poet and writer
Alfred Twardecki
Alfred Twardecki
Alfred Twardecki is a Polish historian of antiquity and translator. He works as curator at the Department of Ancient Art in the National Museum in Warsaw...

(b. 1962), archaeologist, historian of antiquity, museologist
Janusz Andrzej Zajdel (1938–1985), physicist and science-fiction writer
Anna Zawadzka
Anna Zawadzka
Anna Zawadzka was a Polish teacher, author of textbooks, Scoutmaster , sister of Tadeusz "Zośka" Zawadzki and daughter of professor Józef Zawadzki....

(1919–2004), social worker and one of the leaders of Związek Harcerstwa Polskiego
Zwiazek Harcerstwa Polskiego
Związek Harcerstwa Polskiego is the coeducational Polish Scouting organization recognized by the World Organization of the Scout Movement and the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. It was founded in 1918 and currently is the largest Scouting organization in Poland...
Ludwik Zamenhof
L. L. Zamenhof
Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof December 15, 1859 – April 14, 1917) was the inventor of Esperanto, the most successful constructed language designed for international communication.-Cultural background:...

(1859–1917), physician, inventor of Esperanto
Esperanto
is the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Its name derives from Doktoro Esperanto , the pseudonym under which L. L. Zamenhof published the first book detailing Esperanto, the Unua Libro, in 1887...
Maciej Zembaty
Maciej Zembaty
Maciej Zembaty was a Polish artist, writer, journalist, singer, poet and comedian. Despite being considered one of the classics of Polish black humour, he is perhaps best known as a translator and populariser of songs and poems by Leonard Cohen.- Life :Maciej Zembaty was born May 16, 1944 in...

(1944–2011), poet and writer, famous for his grim humour and translations of Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen
Leonard Norman Cohen, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. His work often explores religion, isolation, sexuality and interpersonal relationships...

's works
Rafał A. Ziemkiewicz (b. 1964), writer
Florian Znaniecki
Florian Znaniecki
Florian Witold Znaniecki was a Polish sociologist. He taught and wrote in Poland and the United States. He was the 44th President of the American Sociological Association and the founder of academic sociology studies in Poland...

(1882–1958), philosopher and sociologist

Notable professors

Osman Achmatowicz
Osman Achmatowicz
Osman Achmatowicz was a Polish chemist of Lipka Tatar descent. His son, Osman Achmatowicz Jr., is credited with the Achmatowicz reaction in 1971....

(1899–1988), chemist, rector of the Technical University of Łódź (1946–1953)
Szymon Askenazy
Szymon Askenazy
Szymon Askenazy was a Polish historian, diplomat and politician, founder of the Askenazy school....

(1866–1935), historian
Karol Borsuk
Karol Borsuk
Karol Borsuk was a Polish mathematician.His main interest was topology.Borsuk introduced the theory of absolute retracts and absolute neighborhood retracts , and the cohomotopy groups, later called Borsuk-Spanier cohomotopy groups. He also founded the so called Shape theory...

(1905–1982), mathematician
Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay (1845–1929), linguist, inventor of phoneme
Phoneme
In a language or dialect, a phoneme is the smallest segmental unit of sound employed to form meaningful contrasts between utterances....
Zygmunt Bauman
Zygmunt Bauman
Zygmunt Bauman is a Polish sociologist who, since 1971, has resided in England after being driven out of Poland by an anti-Semitic campaign, engineered by the Communist government which he had previously supported...

(b. 1925), sociologist
Benedykt Dybowski (1833–1930), biologist and explorer of Siberia
Siberia
Siberia is an extensive region constituting almost all of Northern Asia. Comprising the central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, it was part of the Soviet Union from its beginning, as its predecessor states, the Tsardom of Russia and the Russian Empire, conquered it during the 16th...

and Baikal
Lake Baikal
Lake Baikal is the world's oldest at 30 million years old and deepest lake with an average depth of 744.4 metres.Located in the south of the Russian region of Siberia, between Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Buryat Republic to the southeast, it is the most voluminous freshwater lake in the...

area
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault , born Paul-Michel Foucault , was a French philosopher, social theorist and historian of ideas...

(1926–1984), French philosopher, at the University dean-faculty of the French Centre 1958–1959
Stanisław Grabski (1871–1949), economist
Henryk Jabłoński (1909–2003), historian, nominal head of state of Poland (1972–1985)
Feliks Pawel Jarocki
Feliks Pawel Jarocki
Feliks Paweł Jarocki was a Polish zoologist and entomologist.-Life:Jarocki was a Doctor of Liberal Arts and Philosophy. He organized and managed the Zoological Cabinet of the Royal University of Warsaw from 1819 to 1862. The collection was based on that of Baron Sylwiusz Minckwitz, which included...

(1790–1865), zoologist
Leszek Kołakowski (1927–2009), philosopher
Kazimierz Kuratowski
Kazimierz Kuratowski
Kazimierz Kuratowski was a Polish mathematician and logician. He was one of the leading representatives of the Warsaw School of Mathematics.-Biography and studies:...

(1896–1980), mathematician
Joachim Lelewel
Joachim Lelewel
Joachim Lelewel was a Polish historian and politician, from a Polonized branch of a Prussian family.His grandparents were Heinrich Löllhöffel von Löwensprung and Constance Jauch , who later polonized her name to Lelewel.-Life:Born in Warsaw, Lelewel was educated at the Imperial University of...

(1786–1861), historian, politician and freedom fighter
Antoni Leśniowski
Antoni Lesniowski
Antoni Leśniowski was a Polish surgeon, credited with publishing what may have been the earliest reports of the condition which later became known as Crohn’s disease....

(1867–1940), surgeon and medic, one of the discoverers of Crohn's disease
Crohn's disease
Crohn's disease, also known as regional enteritis, is a type of inflammatory bowel disease that may affect any part of the gastrointestinal tract from mouth to anus, causing a wide variety of symptoms...
Edward Lipiński
Edward Lipinski
Edward Lipiński was a Polish economist, intellectual, social critic, and human rights advocate. Lipinski’s career spanned almost seven decades. Throughout his career, he held a series of advisory positions within the government, founded several organizations, and published books and essays on...

(1888–1986), economist, founder of the Main Statistical Office
Jan Łukasiewicz (1878–1956), mathematician and logician
Kazimierz Michałowski (1901–1981), archaeologist, explorer of Deir el Bahari and Faras
Andrzej Mostowski
Andrzej Mostowski
Andrzej Mostowski was a Polish mathematician. He is perhaps best remembered for the Mostowski collapse lemma....

(1913–1975), mathematician
Maria Ossowska
Maria Ossowska
Maria Ossowska was a Polish sociologist and social philosopher.-Life:...

(1896–1974), sociologist
Stanisław Ossowski (1897–1963), sociologist
Grigol Peradze
Grigol Peradze
Saint Grigol Peradze , was a famous Georgian ecclesiastic figure, theologian, historian, Archimandrite, PhD of History, Professor.- Life and works :...

(1899–1942), Orthodox theologian
Leon Petrażycki
Leon Petrazycki
Leon Petrazycki was a Polish philosopher, legal scholar and sociologist. He is considered one of the important forerunners of the sociology of law.- Life :Leon Petrażycki was born into the Polish gentry of the Vitebsk region in the Russian Empire...

(1867–1931), jurist
Jurist
A jurist or jurisconsult is a professional who studies, develops, applies, or otherwise deals with the law. The term is widely used in American English, but in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth countries it has only historical and specialist usage...

, philosopher and logician, one of the founders of sociology of law
Sociology of law
The sociology of law is often described as a sub-discipline of sociology or an interdisciplinary approach within legal studies...
Ladislaus Pilars de Pilar (1874–1952), a literature professor at the Warsaw University, poet and entrepreneur
Adam Podgórecki
Adam Podgórecki
Adam Podgórecki is an internationally renowned legal sociologist and one of the founders of the Research Committee on Sociology of Law . Podgórecki was also one of the founders of the first institute at Warsaw University which was devoted to the social scientific studies of law...

(1925–1998), sociologist of law
Sociology of law
The sociology of law is often described as a sub-discipline of sociology or an interdisciplinary approach within legal studies...
Henryk Samsonowicz
Henryk Samsonowicz
Henryk Bohdan Samsonowicz is a Polish historian specializing in medieval Poland, prolific writer, and professor of the University of Warsaw...

(b. 1930), historian, rector (1980–1982)
Wacław Sierpiński (1882–1969), mathematician
Alfred Sokołowski
Alfred Sokołowski
Alfred Marcin Sokołowski was a Polish pulmonologist and professor of the University of Warsaw. He specialised in the field of Phthisiatry and he was one of the pioneers of modern treatment to diseases of the respiratory system.In 1908 founded the Towarzystwo Przeciwgruźlicze...

(1849–1924), physician and a pioneer in tuberculosis
Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis, MTB, or TB is a common, and in many cases lethal, infectious disease caused by various strains of mycobacteria, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis usually attacks the lungs but can also affect other parts of the body...

treatment
Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin
Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin
Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin was a Russian mathematician.He was born in Tula and attended Lomonosov University, studying mathematics and physics there from 1865 to 1869. His advisor was Nikolai Bugaev. He obtained a Master's Degree with a thesis submitted in 1871, then he taught at the University...

(1849–1915), mathematician
Jan Strelau
Jan Strelau
Jan Strelau is a Polish psychologist best known for his studies on temperament. He was professor of psychology at Warsaw University from 1968 to 2001 and is since 2001 professor at Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, where he takes the position of Vice-rector for Research.Strelau’s...

(b. 1931), psychologist
Jerzy Szacki
Jerzy Szacki
Jerzy Ryszard Szacki is a Polish sociologist and historian of ideas, and emeritus professor of the University of Warsaw....

(b. 1929), sociologist and historian
Stanisław Thugutt (1873–1941), politician, rector (1919–1920)
Włodzimierz Zonn (1905–1985), astronomer

External links

The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.

1816–1831

1857–1869

1870–1915

1915–1918

1918–1939

1939–1944

1945–1956

1956–1989

Campus

Departments

Other institutes

Institutions

Notable alumni

Notable professors

See also

External links