Gerard Labuda

Gerard Labuda ( born December 28, 1916 in Nowahutta at Karthaus, Kashubian, † October 1, 2010 in Poznań ) was a Polish historian and one of the leading medievalist of the country.

Life

Coming from a family Kashubian, Labuda studied in the underground during the Second World War at the University of the Western Territories in Warsaw, where he graduated in 1944, his doctorate. After the liberation he went to the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. In 1950 he was appointed professor there. In parallel, he worked since 1953 at the Polish Academy of Sciences, which he was Deputy Chairman from 1984 to 1986. In the academic year 1981/1982 Labuda was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin. 1989 to 1994 he headed the re- activated second major scientific society in Poland, Polska Akademia the Umiejętności. From 1962 to 1965 he was Rector of Poznan University, from 1958 to 1961 the Director of the Poznań Institute for Western Affairs, the leading political- scientific institution of the Polish Germany research. Labuda has long been regarded as a non- dogmatic communist who after 1989 enjoyed high social prestige both in the Stalin era and in the late People's Republic and the democratic Poland. For his services he received high government awards: the State Prize 3rd degree (1949, 1951) and 2nd degree (1970), the Cavalier Cross with Star, etc. The Academy of Sciences of the GDR in 1978 appointed him to the foreign members. In 1994 he was made an honorary citizen of the city of Danzig, 1991, he was awarded the Herder Prize of the Hamburg Alfred Toepfer Foundation.

As historians Labuda primarily dealt with the Polish Middle Ages and the history of the Teutonic Order. He published sources on the history of Scandinavia and the Anglo-Saxon area in the early Middle Ages. His particular interest was the past of geographically widely understood Pomerania, as a " country by the sea" between Pomerania and Danzig ( Prussia).

Labuda was married to Maria Teresa Alberta born Wielopolska ( * 1917 ) and has five children, including Adam Labuda, Professor of Art History at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Important publications

  • Polska i krzyżacka misja w Prusach (1937 )
  • Studia nad początkami Państwa polskiego (1946 )
  • Fragmenty dziejów Słowiańszczyzny zachodniej, 3 vols ( 1960-1974 )
  • Zrodla skandynawskie i anglosaskie do dziejów Słowiańszczyzny (1961 )
  • Historia Pomorza, Vol 1 (1969 )
  • Polska granica zachodnia, 1971
  • (together with Marian Biskup ) Dzieje zákonu Krzyżackiego w Prusach, 1986 ( Eng.: The history of the Teutonic Order in Prussia: economy, society, government, ideology, Osnabrück: fiber Verlag 2000, ISBN 3-929759 -42- X)
  • Pierwsze państwo polskie, 1989
  • Polish- niemi eckie Rozmowy o przeszłości: zbiór rozpraw i artykułów, 1996
  • Kaszubi i I dzieje. Pisma wybrane, 1996
  • Historia Kaszubów w dziejach Pomorza Vol 1 Czasy średniowieczne, Gdańsk 2006
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