Gerard Labuda

Gerard Labuda (born December 28, 1916 in Neuhütte/ Karthaus, West Prussia, Germany (now Nowa Huta by Kartuzy, Poland), in a Kashubian family, is a Polish historian of the Middle Ages and of the Western Slavs. He remained in what became the Polish Corridor after his birth.

Labuda from 1950 was a professor at Poznań University; rector 1962-1965; from 1951 a member of the Polish Academy of Learning ("PAU"); president 1989-1994; from 1964 of the Polish Academy of Sciences ("PAN"); vice-president 1984-1986; and from 1959 to 1961 director of the Western Institute ("Instytut Zachodni") in Poznań.

Since 1958 he has edited the multi-volume "Dictionary of Slavonic Antiquities" ("Słownik Starożytności Słowiańskich") and published historical sources.

Publications

*"Fragmenty dziejów Słowiańszczyzny Zachodniej" (Fragments of the History of Western Slavdom), vols. 1-2, 1960-64.
*"Polska granica zachodnia. Tysiąc lat dziejów politycznych" (Poland's Western Border: a Thousand Years of Political History), 1971.

External links

* [http://tygodnik.onet.pl/3229,1401027,dzial.html Jak Kaszuba z Kaszubą. O straconych szansach, przywiązaniu do symboli oraz o narodzie kaszubskim z historykiem prof. Gerardem Labudą rozmawia Tomasz Żuroch-Piechowski, "Tygodnik Powszechny", 26.03.2007 r. Interview (in Polish)]