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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 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Janusz Kurtyka is the 550th most popular historian (down from 548th in 2024), the 1,387th most popular biography from Poland (down from 1,382nd in 2019) and the 19th most popular Polish Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Janusz Kurtyka ranks 550 out of 561. Before him are Gábor Kósa, Peter Heather, Oliver Grau, Andreas Umland, Irfan Habib, and Wendy Beckett. After him are Stephen Turnbull, Adam Tooze, Allan Lichtman, Stephen Kotkin, Peeter Järvelaid, and Hatoon al-Fassi.

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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 482. 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 1,386 out of 1,694. Before him are Lucyna Langer (1956), Roman Giertych (1971), Mariusz Czerkawski (1972), Kamil Grosicki (1988), and Anna Anka (1971). After him are Wojciech Polak (1964), Andrzej Wroński (1965), Elizabeth Diller (1958), Andrzej Chyra (1964), Bartosz Bosacki (1975), Władysław Pasikowski (1959), and Krzysztof Charamsa (1972).

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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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