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Jerzy Kłoczowski

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Polish historian, professor at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, and former member of the Polish Senate (1924-2017)

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Jerzy Kazimierz Kłoczowski was a Polish historian, professor at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, and former member of the Polish Senate. During World War II, Kłoczowski was a soldier of the Home Army and participated in the Warsaw Uprising, where he was seriously injured and lost his right hand. D.

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1999doctor honoris causa from the Paris-Sorbonne University
Order of the White Eagle
Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class
Fellow of the Collegium Invisibile
Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari
Bene Merito
Knight of the Order of Polonia Restituta
Cross of Valour (1939)

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Jerzy Kazimierz Kłoczowski was a Polish historian, professor at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, and former member of the Polish Senate. During World War II, Kłoczowski was a soldier of the Home Army and participated in the Warsaw Uprising, where he was seriously injured and lost his right hand. On leaving the military hospital in April 1945, he went to Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and then to Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, where he earned a degree and a Ph.D. (1950). Member of the anti-communist Solidarity movement - after the fall of communism in Poland, Kłoczowski was elected Senator and member of the Commission for Foreign Affairs of the Senate, as well as the representative of the Polish Parliament at the Council of Europe.

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Lived 1924 to 2017 · aged 92
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