# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/janusz-kurtyka
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:26:55.934Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/janusz-kurtyka"
name: "Janusz Kurtyka"
slug: "janusz-kurtyka"
description: "Janusz Marek Kurtyka was a Polish historian, and from December 2005 until his death in the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash, the second president of the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN)."
tagline: "Polish historian (1960–2010)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kurtyka_Janusz.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1960-08-13"
deathDate: "2010-04-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.82668133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump