Krzysztof Kawalec Explained

Krzysztof Maria Kawalec (born 27 April 1954 in Wrocław) is a Polish historian, lecturer and professor at the University of Wrocław. He specializes in the history of Polish political thought of 19th and 20th centuries, Second Polish Republic and right-wing National Democracy political camp.^[1]

Kawalec graduated from Juliusz Słowacki Grammar School in Wrocław in 1973 and later entered studies at the University of Wrocław, where he studied e.g. under prof. Henryk Zieliński.^[2] Since 1978 he works as academician at the Institute of History of University of Wrocław. Since the creation of Solidarity trade union at his university in 1980 he was a member of this organization.

He received his doctoral degree in September 1996 and a professor degree in 2001. His book Spadkobiercy niepokornych: Dzieje polskiej myśli politycznej 1918-1939 (Heirs of Unyielding: History of Polish Political Thought 1918-1939), published in 2000, won the KLIO Prize (Nagroda KLIO) in 2000 for the best scientific monography.^[3]

Works

Narodowa Demokracja wobec faszyzmu 1922-1939: Ze studiów nad dziejami myśli politycznej obozu narodowego (1989)
Wizje ustroju państwa w polskiej myśli politycznej lat 1918-1939: Ze studiów nad dziejami polskiej myśli politycznej (1995)
Roman Dmowski (1996)
Roman Dmowski o ustroju politycznym państwa (Roman Dmowski on the Political System of the State) (1996)
Spadkobiercy niepokornych: Dzieje polskiej myśli politycznej 1918-1939 (Heirs of Unyielding: History of Polish Political Thought 1918-1939) (2000)
Roman Dmowski 1864-1939 (2002, 2005)

Notes and References

http://www.hist.uni.wroc.pl/kawalec.html Profile
Web site: Zieliński Henryk: Wspomnienie (1920-1981) . Kawalec, Krzysztof . Gazeta.pl Wrocław . 7 March 2006 . 24 December 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141209022155/http://wroclaw.gazeta.pl/wroclaw/1,35779,3198927.html . 9 December 2014 . dead .
Web site: Przegląd Uniwersytecki - Pismo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego . , vol. VI, no. 12, December 2000, p. 3.