The Tadeusz Manteuffel
Institute of History
Polish Academy of Sciences

The Institute of History was founded in 1953 as a research institution of the Polish Academy of Sciences, which is a corporation of scholars as well as a community of institutes representing various branches of learning. The founder of the Institute and its first director was an eminent medievalist Professor Tadeusz Manteuffel (1902–1970).

The Institute conducts research into Polish and world history, encompassing the period from the Middle Ages up to the twentieth century. Some subjects are researched in cooperation with other scholarly institutions, both in Poland and in the majority of European countries.

It carries out two kinds of research:

– individual and collective research, resulting in syntheses, monographs, collections of studies and didactic outlines.

– documentary work (editing, encyclopaedias, biographical dictionaries, historical cartography) as well as source-books and research into disciplines auxiliary to history (e.g. heraldry).

The areas of research carried out by the Institute of History:

The Middle Ages: the history of late-medieval culture in Poland and Central Europe, the history of social structures. The research takes into account the history of mentality and collective imagination, pre-Christian beliefs, processes of Christianization, ecclesiastical structures and religious life and the history of the Jewish population in Poland.

Early Modern Times (16th–18th centuries): the history of society and culture in early modern Poland in its European context (the history of social groups and strata, of mentality, of customs, of religious communities, of disasters and threats to the population), the history of the state and system of government.

The 19th and 20th centuries: the political and social history of Poland; the history of social groups and strata, of mass migrations, of totalitarian systems, the history of historiography.

Research into the history of particular countries and regions of Europe:

the history of Germany (especially Prussia and Brandenburg), of the Baltic states, Russia and the Soviet Union, Central European countries and the Balkan countries.

The main documentary works: editions of historical sources, The Polish Biographical Dictionary, bibliographies of the history of Poland, historico-geographical dictionaries of the Polish lands in the Middle Ages, The Historical Atlas of 16th c. Poland.

The Institute has 23 departments and sections with chronological or thematical profiles. Some of them carry out research into particular regions of Europe and Poland over longer periods of time.

Post-graduate studies have been run by the Institute since 1969.

The Institute has an historical library open to all researchers.

It has its own Publishing Department (Wydawnictwo Instytutu Historii Polskiej Akademii Nauk) which, since 1991, has been publishing mainly works which are the results of the research plans of the Institute.

According to the data for March 1, 2007 the Institute employs 25 professors, 32 assistant professors, 43 doctors, 19 assistants, 8 documentalists with diplomas, 23 documentary technicians, 5 librarians and 20 others.

Director of the Institute:

Stanisław Bylina

Deputy Directors:

Adam Manikowski and Andrzej Koryn

Chairman of the Scientific Council:

Andrzej Rachuba

Vice-chairmen:

Tomasz Jurek and Tadeusz Wolsza

The Structure of the Institute of History

The main seat of the Institute is Warsaw, it has also
its departments and sections in Cracow, Gdańsk, Poznań and Toruń.

00-272 Warszawa, Rynek Starego Miasta 29/31

tel.: (00-48-22) 831-02-61, 62; 831-36-42

fax: (00-48-22) 831-36-42

e-mail: ihpan@ihpan.edu.pl

www.ihpan.edu.pl

DEPARTMENT OF AUXILIARY DISCIPLINES
TO HISTORY AND SOURCE EDITING

Head: Stefan K. Kuczyński

Section of Auxiliary Disciplines
to History

Head: Stefan K. Kuczyński

Section of Source Editing

Head: Andrzej Rachuba

HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL SOCIETY AND CULTURE SECTION

Head: Halina Manikowska, Hanna Zaremska

EARLY MODERN HISTORY SECTION

Head: Wojciech Kriegseisen

HISTORICAL ATLAS SECTION

Head: Małgorzata Wilska

Social Transformations in the 19th and 20th-Century Section

Head: Włodzimierz Mędrzecki

History of Intelligentsia Section

Head: Maciej Janowski

History of Social and Political Thought Section

Head: Andrzej Wierzbicki

DEPARTMENT OF THE HISTORY OF 19th and 20th CENTURY EUROPE

Head: Marek K. Kamiński

History of East-Central Europe Section

Head: Marek K. Kamiński

History of Russia and the USSR History Section

Head: Andrzej Nowak

HISTORY OF MASS MIGRATIONS IN THE 19th
and 20th-CENTURY SECTION

Head: Małgorzata Nalewajko

DEPARTMENT OF THE HISTORY
OF TOTALITARIAN SYSTEMS AND WORLD WAR II

Head: Jerzy Borejsza

History of Poland and International
Relations 1939-1945 Section

Head: Jerzy Borejsza

Culture Questions in Totalitarian
Structures Section

Head: Grzegorz Bąbiak

HISTORY OF POLAND AFTER 1945 SECTION

Head: Tomasz Szarota

RETROSPECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE 19th and 20th-CENTURY SECTION

Head: Stefania Sokołowska

LIBRARY

Head: Hanna Cynarska-Gaj

THE PUBLISHING DEPARTMENT

Head: Andrzej Koryn

DEPARTMENT OF THE HISTORY OF POMERANIA AND THE BALTIC REGION

Head: Jerzy Dygdała

87-100 Toruń, ul. Szeroka 36

tel.: (00-48-56) 622-28-79

DEPARTMENT OF THE HISTORY OF GERMANY AND POLISH-GERMAN RELATIONS

Head: Grzegorz Kucharczyk

60-814 Poznań, ul. Zwierzyniecka 20

tel.: (00-48-61) 848-09-01

HISTORY OF GDAŃSK AND THE MARITIME
PAST OF POLAND SECTION

Head: Edmund Kizik

80-207 Gdańsk, Al. Zwycięstwa 57

tel.: (00-48-58) 302-37-45

DEPARTMENT OF THE HISTORICO--GEOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY

Head: Tomasz Jurek (Poznań)

Historico-Geographical
Dictionary of Great Poland
Section

Head: Izabela Skierska

60-814 Poznań, ul. Zwierzyniecka 20

tel. and fax: (00-48-61) 848-09-01

Historico-Geographical
Dictionary of Little Poland
Section

Head: Waldemar Bukowski

31-016 Kraków, ul. Sławkowska 17

tel.: (00-48-12) 422-70-66, ext. 242

e-mail: ihkrak@ih.pan.krakow.pl

DEPARTMENT OF THE POLISH
BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY

Head and Editor-in-chief: Andrzej Romanowski

31-016 Kraków, ul. Sławkowska 17

tel.: (00-48-12) 422-70-66, w. 273; 422-29-61

e-mail: psb@ih.pan.krakow.pl

ihkrak@ich.pan.krakow.pl

Old Polish Section

Head: Maria Czeppe

19th and 20th-Century Section

Head: Stanisław Sroka

CURRENT BIBLIOGRAPHY SECTION

Head: Anna Gruca

31-016 Kraków, ul. Sławkowska 17

tel.: (00-48-12) 422-70-66 w. 239; 422-62-61

e-mail: ihkrak@ih.pan.krakow.pl

The Institute of History PAS publishes:

· scholarly periodicals

– Acta Poloniae Historica – editor-in-chief Maria Bogucka

– Czasopismo Prawno-Historyczne (Legal-Historical Journal) – editor-in-chief Henryk Olszewski

– Dzieje Najnowsze (Recent History)– editor-in-chief Tadeusz Wolsza

– Kwartalnik Historyczny (Historical Quarterly) – editor-in-chief Wojciech Kriegseisen

– Odrodzenie i Reformacja w Polsce (Renaissance and Reformation in Poland) – editors-in-chief Adam Manikowski and Piotr Salwa

– Studia z Dziejów Rosji i Europy Środkowej-Wschodniej (Studies the History of Russia and East-Central Europe) – editor-in-chief Piotr Łossowski

– Studia Źródłoznawcze. Commentationes (Studies in Historical Sources. Commentationes) – editors-in-chief Stefan K. Kuczyński and Maria Koczerska

– Roczniki Historyczne (Historical Annals) – editor-in-chief Tomasz Jurek

– Roczniki Dziejów Społecznych i Gospodarczych (Social and Economic History Annals) – editors-in-chief Włodzimierz Mędrzecki and Jacek Kochanowicz

· continuous publications

– Polski Słownik Biograficzny (Polish Biographical Dictionary) – ed. Andrzej Romanowski

– Bibliografia historii polskiej za rok...(Bibliography of the Polish History of the year...) – ed. Anna Gruca

– Słownik historyczno-geograficzny ziem polskich w średniowieczu (Historico-Geographical Dictionary of the Polish Lands in the Middle Ages) ed. Tomasz Jurek

– Urzędnicy dawnej Rzeczypospolitej XII–XVIII wieku. Spisy (Officials of Old-Poland, 12th–18th Centuries. Lists) – ed. Antoni Gąsiorowski

– Urzędnicy Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego XIV-XVIII wieku. Spisy (Officials of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, 14th-18th Centuries. Lists) – ed. Andrzej Rachuba

· serial publications

– Społeczeństwo Polski średniowiecznej. Zbiór studiów (The Society of Medieval Poland. Collection of Studies) – ed. Stefan K. Kuczyński

– Społeczeństwo staropolskie. Seria nowa (Old-Polish Society. Series nova) – ed. Andrzej Karpiński

– Społeczeństwo polskie XVIII-XX wiek (Polish Society, 18th – 20th Centuries) – ed. Magdalena Micińska

– Polska 1944/45–1989. Studia i materiały (Poland 1944/45–1989. Studies and Materials) – ed. Tomasz Szarota

– Migracje i społeczeństwo. Zbiór studiów (Migrations and Society. Collection of Studies) – ed. Jan E. Zamojski

· others

source publications, comprehensive outlines, monographs, collections of studies, proceedings of conferences and the like – in our own Publishing Department or in a joint edition with other publishers.