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Aleksander Gieysztor (17 July 1916 – 9 February 1999) was a Polish medievalist historian.

Life

Aleksander Gieysztor was born to a Polish family in Moscow, Russia, where his father worked as a railwayman. In 1921, the family relocated to Poland and settled in Warsaw. He graduated in history from the University of Warsaw in 1937.

He was married to Irena Gieysztor née Czarnecka, a fellow historian.

The Aleksander Gieysztor Prize of the Kronenberg Foundation and the Aleksander Gieysztor Academy of Humanities are named after him.

Awards

• 1944: Silver Cross of the Order Virtuti Militari
• 1961: Legion d'Honneur
• 1980: The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1994: Order of the White Eagle
• 1993: Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta
• 1999: The Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic

Books

• Historia Polski (co-author; 1947)
• Ze studiów nad genezą wypraw krzyżowych (1948)
• Zarys nauk pomocniczych historii (1948), a textbook used by a lot of generations of Polish students
• Zarys dziejów pisma łacińskiego (1972)
• Zamek Królewski w Warszawie (1973)
• Mitologia Słowian (1982) (wyd. Wydawnictwa Artystyczne i Filmowe, 1982 i 1986, w serii * Mitologie Świata, ISBN 83-221-0152-X).
• Dzieje Mazowsza do 1526 roku (co-author Henryk Samsonowicz)
• La Pologne et l’Europe au Moyen Age. Warszawa, P.W.N. Conférence au Centre Scientifique Parisien de l’Académie Polonaise des Sciences le 10 décembre 1962.
• Società e cultura nell’alto Medioevo Polacco. Ossolineum 1965. Conférence à l’Académie Polonaise des Sciences à Rome le 5 novembre 1963.

See also

• List of Poles

References

1. M.P. 1994 nr 35 poz. 290, A 1994 President's decree on granting the Order to Geysztor, "for extraordinary actievements in educational and social activities
2. M.P. 1993 nr 17 poz. 148, A 1993 President's decree on granting the Order to Geysztor, for exceptional merit for Polish science and culture

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