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Janusz Kurtyka

1960 - 2010

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Janusz Marek Kurtyka (13 August 1960 – 10 April 2010) 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). Kurtyka was born in Kraków and obtained his degree in the History and Philosophy Department of the Jagiellonian University. He had been a historian at the Polish Academy of Sciences since 1985 where he specialized in Polish medieval and communist era history, modern history and historical methodology. He finished his PhD in 1995 and was habilitated in 2000. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Janusz Kurtyka is the 549th most popular historian (down from 548th in 2019), the 1,377th most popular biography from Poland (up from 1,382nd in 2019) and the 19th most popular Polish Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Janusz Kurtyka ranks 549 out of 561. Before him are Christopher Clark, Gábor Kósa, Peter Heather, Oliver Grau, Irfan Habib, and Wendy Beckett. After him are Stephen Turnbull, Allan Lichtman, Stephen Kotkin, Peeter Järvelaid, Victor Davis Hanson, and Michael Wood.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Janusz Kurtyka ranks 707. Before him are Nahed Hattar, Gregory Colbert, Stéphane Le Foll, Al Joyner, Francis Gillot, and Lesley Sharp. After him are Javier Velásquez, Ola By Rise, Luiz Carlos Pereira, Kevin Clash, Matthias Jacob, and Tecla Marinescu. Among people deceased in 2010, Janusz Kurtyka ranks 478. Before him are Dorothy Height, Helen Wagner, Barbara Billingsley, Yvette Vickers, Teena Marie, and Harry Schwarz. After him are Shoya Tomizawa, Massamasso Tchangai, Edwin Morgan, Orlando Zapata, Bill Dixon, and Adele Mara.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Janusz Kurtyka ranks 1,377 out of 1,694. Before him are Agata Kulesza (1971), Jerzy Brzęczek (1971), Lucyna Langer (1956), Roman Giertych (1971), Kamil Grosicki (1988), and Anna Anka (1971). After him are Andrzej Wroński (1965), Elizabeth Diller (1958), Bartosz Bosacki (1975), Władysław Pasikowski (1959), Krzysztof Charamsa (1972), and Sebastian Szymański (1999).

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Among HISTORIANS In Poland

Among historians born in Poland, Janusz Kurtyka ranks 19. Before him are Jacob Talmon (1916), Fritz Stern (1926), Jan T. Gross (1947), Franz Theodor Kugler (1808), Albrecht Weber (1825), and Benjamin Mazar (1906).

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