Kazimierz Żygulski

Kazimierz Żygulski ( born December 8, 1919 in Lviv, † February 23, 2012 in Warsaw) was a Polish cultural sociology, university teacher and politician who was Minister of Culture and Art of the People's Republic of Poland, among others, between 1982 and 1986.

Life

After visiting the Humanistic Gymnasium in Lviv Żygulski began in 1937 to study law at the University of Lviv and graduated according to the first occupation of Lviv by the Red Army from 1941. During his studies he was active in the Democratic Club and the Stronnictwo Demokratyczne (SD), the Democratic Party, founded among others by Mieczysław Michałowicz 1939.

At the time of the occupation of Lviv by the Wehrmacht during the Operation Barbarossa 1941, he was representative of Lembergs the Council of the Polish government in exile, as well as judge in a special court. Because of his participation in the work of the government in exile in 1944 he was arrested by the NKVD and sentenced to 15 years hard labor in the Gulag in the Republic of Komi in northwestern Russia.

After more than ten years in prison, he went to Poland in 1955 and became a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences ( PAN), before 1959-1990 at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology worked. There he took over in 1973 first extraordinary, and finally in 1983 a full professor of sociology with a focus on cultural sociology.

On October 9, 1982, he was appointed by Prime Minister Wojciech Jaruzelski as the successor of Józef Tejchma to the Minister of Culture and Art and has held this function in the following Government of Zbigniew Messner until its replacement by Aleksander Krawczuk on 29 September 1986.

In addition, Żygulski committed in several public organizations and in 1983 a member of the Presidium of the Polish-Soviet Friendship Society ( Towarzystwo Przyjaźni Polish- Radzieckiej ) and the Citizens' Committee to prepare for the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising on August 1, 1944. Besides he was still 1986-1989 Member of the National Committee for the memorials in Grunwald, and between 1987 and 1989 Chairman of the Polish Committee for UNESCO and Member of the Executive Council of UNESCO in Paris. He was, after his retirement in 1990 Rector and Professor at the School of Social and Economic Affairs ( Wyższa SzkoĹ społeczno - Ekonomiczna ) in Warsaw.

Publications

• Wstęp do zagadnień kultury, Warsaw, 1972