Jerzy Leśniak Explained

Jerzy Leśniak (14 August 1957, Nowy Sącz, Poland – 20 August 2017[1]) was a Polish journalist, author and historian.

His best-known book, Encyklopedia Sądecka (published in 2000, co-authored with Augustyn Leśniak and Karol Leśniak), has been so far the most comprehensive source and compendium of the region's history, as well as personal biographies and rare illustrations.

A graduate of the department of political science and journalism at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. In the early 1980s he began working for a regional newspaper "Dunajec", then moved to a daily Gazeta Krakowska (head of the Nowy Sącz office since 1989-95) and Dziennik Polski (1996–2003).

Leśniak was an editor-in-chief of a weekly regional magazine Echo and a quarterly Nowy Sącz. During the years 2003-06 he was a spokesman of the president of the city of Nowy Sącz. Up to this day he has been one of the editors of the annual print of "Rocznik Sądecki" and an academic teacher of mass communication. He is a secretary general of the regional association Klub Ziemi Sądeckiej.

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.gazetakrakowska.pl/aktualnosci/a/redaktor-jerzy-lesniak-nie-zyje,12406676|archiwum=https://web.archive.org/web/20170821225306/http://www.gazetakrakowska.pl/aktualnosci/a/redaktor-jerzy-lesniak-nie-zyje,12406676 Profile