Dan Gawrecki Explained

Dan Gawrecki (born 23 December 1943 in Frýdek) is a Czech historian focusing mostly on Silesian history. He is professor since 2006.

Life

After graduating from the secondary school in Ostrava-Poruba (1957-1960), he studied at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Olomouc (history-Russian). In 1969, he received his PhD (for his thesis Bund der Deutschen und Sudetendeutsche Partei) and in 1977 he defended his thesis German Defence Associations in the Habsburg Monarchy and Czechoslovakia 1880-1938 and received the degree of CSc. He was employed at the Silesian Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (1968-1993), where he was director from 1987-1991. From 1993 he worked at the Institute of History and Museology of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Opava, where he was the head of the Institute from 1994. In 1997, he received his habilitation at the Faculty of Philosophy of Comenius University in Bratislava with the thesis Political and national conditions in Těšín Silesia 1918-1938.[1] In 2006, he was appointed professor in Warsaw.

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Notes and References

  1. Žáček. Rudolf. K životnímu jubileu vedoucího Ústavu historie a muzeologie Slezské univerzity v Opavě doc. PhDr. Dana Gawreckého, CSc. Acta historica et museologica Universitatis Silesianae Opaviensis. Řada C. Slezská univerzita, Filozoficko-přírodovědecká fakulta, Ústav historie a muzeologie. Opava. 2003. 80-7248-213-0. 6.
  2. Web site: Polacy, Niemcy i Czesi napisali historię Śląska. Sławomir. Mielnik. nto.pl. 15 November 2011.