Jerzy Kłoczowski
Polish historian, professor at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, and former member of the Polish Senate (1924-2017) · Poland · On the map · Writers · Died at 92
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.
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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.
