56 Notable alumni of
University of Lodz
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The University of Lodz is 493rd in the world, 180th in Europe, and 11th in Poland by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 56 notable alumni from the University of Lodz sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Andrzej Sapkowski
- Enrolled in the University of Lodz
- In 1972 studied international trade
- Occupations
- translatorwriter
- Biography
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Andrzej Sapkowski is a Polish fantasy writer. He is best known for his series of books The Witcher, which revolves around the eponymous monster-hunter, Geralt of Rivia. The saga has been popularized through television, stage, comic books, video games and translated into 37 languages making him the second most-translated Polish science fiction and fantasy writer after Stanisław Lem.
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Leszek Kołakowski
- Occupations
- philosopherhistorianpedagoguewriteruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Leszek Kołakowski was a Polish philosopher and historian of ideas. He is best known for his critical analyses of Marxist thought, such as in his three-volume history of Marxist philosophy Main Currents of Marxism (1976). In his later work, Kołakowski increasingly focused on religious questions. In his 1986 Jefferson Lecture, he asserted that "we learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are".
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Anita Werner
- Enrolled in the University of Lodz
- Studied in 2001
- Occupations
- presenternews presenterjournalistactor
- Biography
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Anita Werner is a Polish television journalist, connected with TVN. She is also a former actress.
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Marek Belka
- Occupations
- politicianbankereconomist
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Marek Marian Belka is a Polish professor of economics and politician who has served as Prime Minister of Poland and Finance Minister of Poland in two governments. He is a former director of the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) European Department and former Head of Narodowy Bank Polski (National Bank of Poland). He has served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since July 2019.
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Katarzyna Lubnauer
- Occupations
- politiciandeputymathematician
- Biography
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Katarzyna Anna Lubnauer is a Polish politician, feminist, mathematician and academic teacher. She is a member of the Polish Parliament and a former leader of the liberal Modern (.Nowoczesna) political party. In 2023, she was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of National Education.
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Krzysztof Radzikowski
- Occupations
- strongmanathleteteacher
- Biography
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Krzysztof Edward Radzikowski is a professional strongman competitor from Głowno, Poland. He has competed in 112 International strongman competitions (2nd highest in history) and has won 24 of them, making him the sixth most decorated strongman in history following Žydrūnas Savickas, Mariusz Pudzianowski, Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, Brian Shaw and Aivars Šmaukstelis.
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Stefan Niesiołowski
- Occupations
- entomologistpoliticianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Stefan Konstanty Myszkiewicz-Niesiołowski is a Polish politician and member of the Union of European Democrats. In 1970, Niesiołowski became involved in anti-communist opposition Ruch. He was the main proponent of burning down the Lenin Museum in Poronin, for which he was sentenced to 7 years imprisonment in 1971, and was released under amnesty in 1974. In 1980, Niesiołowski joined the Independent Self-governing Trade Union "Solidarity". During the martial law, Niesiołowski was imprisoned in Jaworze for around a year.
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Witold Waszczykowski
- Enrolled in the University of Lodz
- In 1980 graduated with magister degree in study of history
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianhistoriandiplomat
- Biography
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Witold Jan Waszczykowski is a Polish politician. He was the Minister of Foreign Affairs between 2015 and 2018. Waszczykowski was a Member of the Sejm (2011–2019), and has been the Member of the European Parliament since 2019.
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Janusz Kowalski
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Janusz Kowalski is a Polish politician serving as a member of the Sejm since 2019. From 2019 to 2021, he served as secretary of state of the Ministry of State Assets. From 2022 to 2023, he served as secretary of state of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
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Magda Femme
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Magda Femme is a Polish pop singer and songwriter.
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Tatiana Okupnik
- Occupations
- singerjazz musician
- Biography
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Tatiana Olga Okupnik vel Tatiana is a Polish singer, composer and songwriter. She has a characteristic, unique voice timbre. She has collaborated with musicians such as Tim Hutton, Wyclef Jean, Lenny White and was a member of Blue Café, a Polish band, where she was lead singer from the band's early years until 2005. In 2012, Okupnik joined the judging panel on the second series of the Polish reality television competition X Factor.
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Władysław Pasikowski
- Occupations
- screenwriterdirectorfilm directorwriterscience fiction writer
- Biography
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Władysław Pasikowski is a Polish film director and screenwriter.
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Krzysztof Skiba
- Occupations
- actorsinger
- Biography
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Krzysztof Skiba is a Polish musician, singer-songwriter, satirist, essayist and actor. He is best known as the vocalist of the rock band, Big Cyc.
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Janusz Wojciechowski
- Occupations
- judgepoliticianjurist
- Biography
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Janusz Czesław Wojciechowski is a Polish politician and was a long-standing Member of the European Parliament, elected from the Lodz Voivodship representing the Polish People's Party (PSL) (2004–2006), the Polish People's Party "Piast" (PSL "Piast") (2006–2010) and, lately, Law and Justice (since 2010). In 2016, he left the parliament to become a member of the Court of Auditors. Since 2019 he has been the European Commissioner for Agriculture.
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Jacek Saryusz-Wolski
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- politiciancivil servanteconomistdiplomat
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Jacek Emil Saryusz-Wolski is a Polish diplomat and PiS (Law and Justice) politician. He has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since June 2004. He served as vice president of the European Parliament (2004–2007). Saryusz-Wolski is chairman of the executive board of the “Foundation College of Europe”, in charge of the Natolin campus of the College of Europe.
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Krzysztof Kwiatkowski
- Occupations
- politicianjuristlawyer
- Biography
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Krzysztof Kwiatkowski is a Polish lawyer, politician and government official who served as the Minister of Justice of Poland in Cabinet of Donald Tusk from 2009 until 2011, Public Prosecutor General from 2009 until 2010, and as President of the Supreme Audit Office (NIK) from 2013 until 2019. He was also a member of Senate (from Civic Platform) from 2007 until 2011.
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Tobiasz Bocheński
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Tobiasz Adam Bocheński is a Polish politician of Law and Justice who was elected member of the European Parliament in 2024. He served as voivode of Łódź from 2019 to 2023, and as voivode of Masovia in 2023.
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Iwona Śledzińska-Katarasińska
- Occupations
- journalistpolitician
- Biography
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Iwona Elżbieta Śledzińska-Katarasińska was a Polish journalist and politician. She was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, receiving 23,119 votes in 9 Łódź district as a candidate from the Civic Platform list.
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Zbigniew Rau
- Enrolled in the University of Lodz
- In 1977 graduated with master's degree in law
- Occupations
- legal scholarpoliticianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Zbigniew Rau is a Polish politician and lawyer who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland between 2020 and 2023. He previously served as the voivode of Łódź Voivodeship from 2015 to 2019.
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Waldemar Buda
- Occupations
- juristpolitician
- Biography
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Waldemar Grzegorz Buda is a Polish politician who has been serving as Minister of Economic Development and Technology under Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in his second cabinet since 8 April 2022.
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Kazimierz Ujazdowski
- Enrolled in the University of Lodz
- Studied in 1988
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianlegal scholaropinion journalist
- Biography
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Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski is a Polish politician and lawyer, associate professor of law at the University of Lodz. Minister of Culture and National Heritage in the governments of Jerzy Buzek (2000–2001), Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz (2005–2006) and Jarosław Kaczyński (2006–2007), deputy speaker of the Sejm of the fourth term. Member of the Sejm of the 1st (1991–1993) and of the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th term (1997–2014), Member of the European Parliament of the 8th term (2014–2019), senator of the 10th term (from 2019).
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Jarosław Rymkiewicz
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- essayistpoetliterary criticuniversity teacherplaywright
- Biography
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Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz was a Polish poet, essayist, dramatist, translator and literary critic. He ws the recipient of the 2003 Nike Award, Poland's most important literary prize.
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Paweł Edelman
- Occupations
- cinematographercamera operator
- Biography
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Paweł Edelman is a Polish cinematographer.
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Łukasz Rzepecki
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Łukasz Adrian Rzepecki is a Polish politician, lawyer, former parliamentarian.
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Cezary Grabarczyk
- Enrolled in the University of Lodz
- In 1984 graduated with magister degree in law
- Occupations
- politicianofficiallawyer
- Biography
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Cezary Stanisław Grabarczyk [t͡sɛˈzarɨ ɡraˈbart͡ʂɨk] is a Polish politician.
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Kinga Dunin
- Enrolled in the University of Lodz
- In 1977 studied sociology
- Occupations
- writerjournalistliterary critic
- Biography
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Kinga Maria Dunin-Horkawicz is a Polish writer, feminist, and sociologist.
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Karolina Pawliczak
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Karolina Monika Pawliczak is a Polish lawyer and left wing politician. She was elected to the Sejm (9th term) representing the constituency of Kalisz in October 2019. She took her oath of office in November 2019.
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Witold Orłowski
- Occupations
- opinion journalistuniversity teachereconomist
- Biography
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Witold Maciej Orłowski is a Polish professor of economics. He is Director of the Warsaw University of Technology Business School and a Member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Council. Beside, he acts as Chief Economic Adviser for PricewaterhouseCoopers in Poland. In 2011 he was appointed Special Adviser (budget) to the European Commission. Currently, he is the Rector of Group of Universities.
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Stefan Olszowski
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Stefan Michał Olszowski was a Polish politician, who was a member of Polish United Workers' Party. He served as the foreign minister of the People's Republic of Poland for two terms.
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Joanna Skrzydlewska
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Joanna Katarzyna Skrzydlewska is a Polish politician. She was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 11,822 votes in 9 Łódź district as a candidate from the Civic Platform list.
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Ludwika Wujec
- Enrolled in the University of Lodz
- Studied in 1972
- Occupations
- politicianphysicistdissident
- Biography
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Ludwika Wujec was a Polish physicist, teacher, politician, and political activist. Wujec was a member of the pro-democracy dissident movement against the Polish People's Republic during the country's communist era.
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Mirosław Drzewiecki
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Mirosław Michał Drzewiecki is a Polish politician, representing Civic Platform. He graduated from Emilia Sczaniecka High School in Łódź, followed by his 5-year stint at the University of Łódź Department of Law, where he obtained his M.A. title. In 1989 he established his own business, which dealt with upholstery and embroidery. Then he became the owner of several restaurants. Currently, he is one of the richest people in Poland, ranked by a weekly Wprost among the Top 100 richest Poles. He is the former Minister of Sport and Tourism. He took over the Ministry following the 2007 parliamentary election, and held the office from November 2007 to October 2009.
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Joanna Agacka-Indecka
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Joanna Agacka-Indecka was a Polish attorney, President of the Polish Bar Council from 2007 until 2010.
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Grzegorz Królikiewicz
- Occupations
- film directorfilm editorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Grzegorz Królikiewicz was a Polish film director, screenwriter, and pedagogue.
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Aleksandra Ziółkowska-Boehm
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Aleksandra Ziółkowska-Boehm is a Polish-born United States–based writer and academic. She obtained her Ph.D. in humanistic studies at the Warsaw University. Her works include historical biographies, the current outlook of Native Americans, autobiographical stories of her travels, Ingrid Bergman (a relative of Ziółkowska-Boehm's husband, Norman Boehm), and cats.
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Włodzimierz Tomaszewski
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Włodzimierz Tomaszewski is a Polish politician who was the vice president of Łódź (2002–2010) and a member of the IX and X Sejm.
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Lech Bądkowski
- Occupations
- opinion journalisttrade unionistwriterjournalist
- Biography
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Lech Bądkowski was a Polish writer, journalist, publicist and Kashubian-Pomeranian activist, a promoter of regional history and culture, co-founder and leader of the Kashubian-Pomeranian Association, and opponent of Communist rule in post-war Poland.
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Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek
- Years
- 1975-.. (age 50)
- Occupations
- analytic philosopherphilosopher
- Biography
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Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek is a Polish utilitarian philosopher and a university professor at the Institute of Philosophy at University of Łódź.
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Jerzy Jarniewicz
- Occupations
- university teacherscholar of Englishtranslatorpoet
- Biography
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Jerzy Jarniewicz is a Polish poet, literary critic, translator and essayist. He was awarded the 2022 Nike Award, the most important distinction in Polish literature as well as the Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis (2006).
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Paweł Samecki
- Enrolled in the University of Lodz
- Studied in 1981
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Paweł Samecki is a Polish economist and served as the European Commissioner for Regional Policy (2009–10). He is married and has two children.
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Elżbieta Więcławska-Sauk
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Elżbieta Więcławska-Sauk is a Polish politician, member of Law and Justice party. She was elected to Sejm on 25 September 2005.
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Andrzej Owczarek
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Andrzej Owczarek was a Polish politician.
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Dyzma Gałaj
- Occupations
- sociologistpoliticianeconomist
- Biography
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Dyzma Kazimierz Gałaj was a Polish sociologist and politician.
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Magdalena Majewska
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Magdalena Majewska is a Polish journalist.
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Rafał Ambrozik
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Rafał Michał Ambrozik is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Senate of Poland (10th term) representing the constituency of Piotrków Trybunalski. He was also elected to the 11th term.
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Halina Abramczyk
- Occupations
- physicistchemist
- Biography
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Halina Abramczyk is a Polish physicist and chemist, a specialist in molecular spectroscopy and laser spectroscopy professor employed at the Lodz University of Technology.
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Hanna Foltyn-Kubicka
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Hanna Foltyn-Kubicka, is a Polish politician and a Member of the European Parliament (MEP). She is a member of the Law and Justice Party, which is part of the Union for Europe of the Nations Group in the European Parliament. She was a member on the Committee on Regional Development and the delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee. She is a substitute for the Committee on Culture and Education and the delegation to the EU-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee.
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Małgorzata Dąbrowska
- Occupations
- university teacherhistorianByzantinistmedievalist
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Małgorzata Dąbrowska is a Polish historian, Byzantinist, dean of the History Department at the University of Łódź. She specializes in Byzantine studies, specifically the topics of Byzantium and the West in 13th-15th centuries, mixed marriages in the Imperial family of the Palaiologoi, rivalry between the Palaiologoi and Kantakouzenoi families, the Empire of Trebizond and the Pontus, the relationship between Kingdom of Poland and Byzantium, as well as Polish contemporary history.
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Józef Bachórz
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- literary theoristliterary historianphilologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Józef Bachórz was a Polish philologist, professor of Gdańsk University, and an expert in Polish poetry. He was the recipient of the 2003 Johannes Hevelius Award in the humanities category, Order of Polonia Restituta in 2004, as well as a number of other awards. Born on 20 September 1934, Bachórz died on 20 September 2024, his 90th birthday.
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Magdalena Śniadecka-Kotarska
- Years
- 1952-.. (age 73)
- Enrolled in the University of Lodz
- In 1983 graduated with magister degree
- Occupations
- anthropologistdiplomatethnologist
- Biography
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Magdalena Śniadecka-Kotarska is the Polish Ambassador to Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador. She is an ethnologist/anthropologist of culture and politics, conducting field research in Andean America devoted to ethnopolitics, native populations and gender identity.
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Ewa Ośniecka-Tamecka
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Ewa Ośniecka-Tamecka is a Polish politician, in the years from 2006 to 2007 the Secretary of State at the Office of the Committee for European Integration, since 2007, Vice-Rector of the College of Europe in Natolin (Warsaw), Poland.
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Agnieszka Nagay
- Occupations
- sport shooter
- Biography
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Agnieszka Nagay is a Polish rifle shooter and soldier. She competed in the 50 m rifle three positions event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, where she placed 8th in the final. She won a bronze medal at the 2005 European Championships, and has finished 2nd (Changwon 2011) and 3rd (Munich 2008) at World Cup Events.
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Zdzisława Janowska
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teachereconomist
- Biography
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Zdzisława Janowsk is a Polish economist and politician, who has served as a senator in the Senate of Poland from 1993 to 1997 and again from 2001 to 2005, and was a member of the Sejm from 2007 to 2011. She is a professor of economics at the University of Łódź, and was awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta in 1999.
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Krzysztof Konecki
- Years
- 1958-.. (age 67)
- Enrolled in the University of Lodz
- 1978-1983 graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- sociologist
- Biography
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Krzysztof T. Konecki is a Polish sociologist, and professor at University of Łódź. He is the editor-in-chief of Qualitative Sociology Review, and is on the executive board of the Polish Sociological Association.
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Paweł Lechowicz
- Enrolled in the University of Lodz
- In 1991 graduated with magister degree in study of history
- Occupations
- diplomatintelligence officer
- Biography
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Paweł Lechowicz is a Polish civil servant who served as the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Kuwait.
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Anka Leśniak
- Enrolled in the University of Lodz
- Studied in 2003
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Anka Leśniak is a Polish contemporary artist, born and educated in Łódź. She specialises in installation art, performance, video art and painting.
