Andrzej Paczkowski
Polish historian
Andrzej Paczkowski (1 October 1938 – 3 January 2026) was a Polish historian. He was a professor at Collegium Civitas, director of Modern History Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences, and a member of the Collegium of the Institute of National Remembrance.
Life and career
Paczkowski was born in Krasnystaw on 1 October 1938, to Maria and her husband Stanisław Paczkowski.
After completing secondary school in Warsaw, he studied history at the University of Warsaw from 1955 to 1960, graduating with a master’s degree. In 1966, he defended his doctoral thesis, and in 1975 he received his habilitation.
He taught and conducted research at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the National Library, and later at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, where he became head of the Department of Contemporary History.
Paczkowski was widely recognised for his work on the history of the Polish press, the Polish People’s Republic, and the opposition movement.
From 1974 to 1995 (for seven terms) he was a president of the Polish Mountaineering Association (Polski Związek Alpinizmu).
Paczkowski died in Warsaw on 3 January 2026, at the age of 87.
Works
Prasa polonijna w latach 1870-1939: zarys problematyki (1977)
Prasa i społeczność polska we Francji w latach 1920-1940 (Press and the Polish Community in France 1920–1940) (1979)
Prasa polska w latach 1918-1939 (Polish Press 1918–1939) (1980)
Stanisław Mikołajczyk 1901-1966.
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