Wojciech Roszkowski

Wojciech Roszkowski ( born June 20, 1947 in Warsaw) is a Polish historian, politician and in the period 2004-2009, Member of the European Parliament. He belonged to the Union for a Europe of Nations. Roszkowski was a member of the Budget Committee of the European Parliament, substitute member of the Committee on Culture and Education and a member of the Delegation for relations with Japan.

Life

Wojciech Roszkowski graduated in 1971, he studied at the SzkoĹ Główna Planowania i Statystyki and in 1978 he received his doctorate edenda. From 1980 to 1983 he was a member of the Solidarity trade union. In 1983 he published under the pseudonym Andrzej Albert a book on Polish history over the period 1918-1980, entitled " Recent Polish history." This book first appeared in the underground in Warsaw, during the time in several issues in one and in three volumes. Some publications, he co-authored with Anna Radziwill. To date, his books have been published only in Polish or English.

In 1988 he went as a university lecturer to the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC. 1990-1993 he was Vice-Rector of the SzkoĹ Główna Handlowa and from 1994 to 2000 he was director of the Institute of Political Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences and then to 2002 the Kościuszko owner Chair of Poland studies at the University of Virginia (USA).

He is a member of the Polish Academy Collegium Invisibile, which was founded in 1995 and is one of the signatories of the Prague Declaration.

Publications

• Najnowsza historia Polski, 1918-1980. Warsaw 1983.
• Najnowsza historia Polski, 1914-1945. Warsaw 2003.
• Biographical Dictionary of Central & Eastern Europe. As the editor, together with Jan Kofman, 2009.