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Józef Andrzej Gierowski (1922-2006) was a Polish historian, professor and rector of the Jagiellonian University. == Career == Soldier of Armia Krajowa during World War II.〔Krystyn Matwijowski - ''Wspomnienie'' (remembrance). ''Gazeta.pl'' internet portal wroclaw.gazeta.pl, 2006-02-23.〕 Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, director of its Institute of History (1953-1968) and its Department of History of Silesia (1977-1981). Rector of the Jagiellonian University from 1981 to 1987. Member of the Polish Academy of Learning, from 1990 director of its Philosophical-Historical Sciences Division. Deputy in the Sejm of the People's Republic of Poland 1985-1989. During the war Gierowski was a student in clandestine classes of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He studied under the mentorship of Władysław Konopczyński and graduated in 1946.〔 In 1947 he was granted a doctoral degree at the University of Wrocław and assumed a faculty position there, working initially under the direction of Władysław Czapliński. In Wrocław Gierowski demonstrated his ability to combine scientific and didactic work with editorial, popularizing and increasingly, administrative duties.〔 In 1965 Gierowski moved to the Jagiellonian University and became full professor in 1970. Director of the University's Institute of History 1967-1972.〔 Active in Solidarity.〔Krystyn Matwijowski - ''Przyjaciel Wrocławia'' (a friend of Wrocław). ''Nowe Życie'', nowezycie.archidiecezja.wroc.pl, 2006-07-08〕 In 1981 Józef Gierowski was elected rector (university's chief executive) in the first, since 1968, free faculty election.〔 During the martial law in Poland Gierowski intervened with the authorities and was able to obtain quick release of the interned students and employees of the University. In 1983 he was delegated to present the University's honorary doctorate to Pope John Paul II.〔 In 1984 Rector Gierowski initiated the project of building a new campus for the University. The undertaking, at that time viewed as unrealistic, was pursued and completed by Gierowski's successors. In 1986 Gierowski established the first interdepartmental program in the history and culture of the Jews in Poland, which became the University's Department of Jewish Studies.〔 In 1991-1995 Gierowski was a member of the Polish-Jewish relations council advising the President of Poland. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Józef Andrzej Gierowski」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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