12 Facts About Jerzy Szacki

Jerzy Ryszard Szacki was a Polish sociologist and historian of ideas.

Jerzy Szacki is considered one of the most prominent representatives of the Warsaw School of the History of Ideas.

In 1956, when the sociological department in Warsaw re-opened, Jerzy Szacki returned there to obtain a Ph.

Jerzy Szacki completed his habilitation at the department of philosophy in 1965.

Jerzy Szacki was appointed "extraordinary professor" in 1973 and "ordinary professor" in 1987, the highest rank in Polish academe.

Jerzy Szacki retired from the university in 1999, but has been teaching at the private university-level Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities since 2003.

From 1972 to 1976, Jerzy Szacki was the president of the Polish Sociological Association, and held numerous further administrative positions, including in the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Jerzy Szacki wrote his monumental Historia mysli socjologicznej in Minneapolis and Oxford.

In 1991, Jerzy Szacki co-founded the Solidarnosc Pracy, a short-lived social-democratic party formed by left-wing Solidarity members, which merged with the Labour Union the following year.

In 1994, Jerzy Szacki published a book on Liberalism after communism, which was translated into English and other languages and received favourable reviews in the West.

Jerzy Szacki translated several classic works from English and French into Polish: Some English-language writings by Florian Znaniecki, a pioneering Polish sociologist, as well as Emile Durkheim's classic work Les Regles de la methode sociologique, Jean-Pierre Vernant's Les origines de la pensee grecque and Marcel Mauss's Sociologie et anthropologie.

In 2004, Jerzy Szacki was honoured as a Righteous Among the Nations.