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Leszek Zasztowt (born February 25, 1953, in Olsztyn) is a Polish historian and professor at the University of Warsaw.

Career

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He graduated from high school in Warsaw, and subsequently studied history at the University of Warsaw. In 1978 he started to work in the L.& A. Birkenmajer Institute for the History of Science, Polish Academy of Sciences; where he held the post of director during the years 2007 through 2015.[1] Since 1998 he has been employed by the Centre for East European Studies of the University of Warsaw.[2] He received professorship at the University in 2006, and became a full professor in 2009. He is a chairman of the scientific council of the Polish Academy of Sciences Archives in Warsaw. Up until 1991 he was a secretary, and in 2010 he was promoted to president of the Mianowski Fund - Foundation for the Promotion of Science.[3] He is a member of the Warsaw Scientific Society (2002), and was its general secretary (2011-2020).[4] He was a J. William Fulbright scholar at the University of California in Berkeley (1999/2000),[5] and received a British Academy scholarship in 1988.[citation needed] He has lectured as a guest at the Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, Lund University in Sweden.[citation needed]He is also a member of scholarly commission of the Research Centre for the History of East Europe (Czech Academy of Sciences)[6]

His research concerns the history of East Central Europe and Russia since the 19th to the 20th century, especially the issues embracing political, social, confessional, educational, academic and scholarly life.[7]

Works

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  • L. Zasztowt, Józef Mianowski. Biografia konserwatysty, Warszawa 2021, 234 s.
  • L. Zasztowt, J. Szumski (ed.), Rok 1918. Odrodzona Polska i Sowiecka Rosja w nowej Europie, Warszawa 2019, vol. I: 489 p.; vol. II: 402 p.
  • Melting Puzzle. The Nobility, Society, Education and Scholarly Life in East Central Europe (1800s-1900s), "Bibliotheca Europae Orientalis", vol. XLIX, studia 7, Warsaw 2018, 367 p.
  • L. Zasztowt, J. Schiller-Walicka (ed.), Historia nauki polskiej, Vol. 10, 1944-1989, Warsaw 2015, part 1 - Warunki rozwoju nauki polskiej, 448 p.; part 2 - Instytucje, 718 p., part 3 - Idee i polityka, 446 p.
  • L. Zasztowt, P. Hübner, J. Piskurewicz, J. Soszyński, A History of the Józef Mianowski Fund, translated and edited by Jacek Soszyński, Warsaw 2013, 166 p.
  • Akademie nauk, uniwersytety, organizacje nauki. Polsko-rosyjskie relacje w sferze nauki XVIII-XX w., ed. L. Zasztowt, Warsaw 2013, 756 p.
  • Kasa Mianowskiego 1881-2011, ed. L. Zasztowt, Warsaw 2011, 468 p.
  • East and West. History and Contemporary State of Eastern Studies, ed. L. Zasztowt, J. Malicki, "Bibliotheca Europae Orientalis", Vol. XXXIV, didactica 5, Warsaw 2009, 338 p.
  • Europa Środkowo-Wschodnia a Rosja XIX-XX wieku. W kręgu edukacji i polityki, "Bibliotheca Europae Orientalis", Vol. XXVII, Studia 3, Warsaw 2007, 561 p.
  • Instytut Historii Nauki Polskiej Akademii Nauk w latach 1953-2003. Księga jubileuszowa z okazji pięćdziesięciolecia działalności, ed. L. Zasztowt, J. Schiller, Warsaw 2004, 508 p.
  • Kresy 1832-1864. Szkolnictwo na ziemiach litewskich i ruskich dawnej Rzeczypospolitej. Warsaw 1997, 456 p.
  • L. Zasztowt, P. Hübner, J. Piskurewicz, Kasa im. Józefa Mianowskiego – Fundacja Popierania Nauki 1881-1991, Warsaw 1992, 70 p.
  • Popularyzacja nauki w Królestwie Polskim 1864-1905, Wrocław 1989, 278 p.

References

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  1. ^ "Prof. dr hab. Leszek Zasztowt".
  2. ^ "prof. Leszek Zasztowt" (in Polish).
  3. ^ "Members of the Board of Mianowski Fund".
  4. ^ "Prezydium Zarządu wybrane 19 grudnia 2016 r." (in Polish).
  5. ^ "Past ISEEES Visiting Scholars - University of California, Berkeley". Archived from the original on 2013-06-19. Retrieved 2017-12-12.
  6. ^ "Research Centre for the History of East Europe".
  7. ^ "Prof. Leszek Zasztowt" (in Polish).
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