Marian Kamil Dzevanovsky (June 27 [4] 1913 , Zhytomyr - February 18, 2005 , Milwaukee , Wisconsin , USA ) - Polish historian, emigrant, Soviet scientist , writer, journalist, cavalry reserve officer of the Polish army and the Polish armed forces in the west, Professor at Boston University and the University of Wisconsin , Member of the Polish Academy of Knowledge .
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| Marian Kamil Dziewanowski | |
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| Place of Birth | Zhytomyr , Russian Empire |
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| Place of death | Milwaukee , Wisconsin , USA |
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| Scientific field | history , sovietology |
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| Alma mater | Harvard University |
The early years
He was born and raised in a family of landowners - Polish Muslim Tatars, Kamil Dzevanovsky and his wife Sofia nee Kamenskaya. The family survived the 1917 revolution, the German occupation in 1918 and the events of the civil war in Ukraine. After the arrival of the Polish army in Zhytomyr in April 1920, the Dzevanowski family was evacuated to Warsaw. Upon arrival in Warsaw, Marian Dzevanovsky studied at the gymnasium of PR students . After he studied at the Kremenets Lyceum , which he graduated from. He studied law at the University of Warsaw , received a diploma at the French Institute . Later, Marian Dzevanovsky entered the reserve cavalry school in Grudziadze . He served as an officer of the 1st cavalry regiment. After being appointed an officer, he moved to the third cavalry regiment in Suwalki .
In high school, Marian met Edmund Osmanchik , who in 1936 invited him to work in Berlin, to the press service of the Union of Poles in Germany located there. For six months he was a correspondent for the Polish Telegraph Agency in Berlin and worked there in 1937-1938. [5] .
During the Second World War
After the German invasion of Poland, he fought as part of the third Polish cavalry regiment. After the Soviet invasion of September 17, 1939, he fought with the Germans on the Western Front, and in the evening he was already fighting the Red Army . Marian Dzevanovsky was captured by the Red Army, but he managed to escape to Latvia, then to Sweden, fled from Sweden to France, and then the remnants of the Polish army in France were evacuated to England aboard MS Batoria. Subsequently, due to his knowledge of the German language, he was a translator and teacher at the Institute of Skydivers and Saboteurs in the UK, where he trained Polish saboteurs. There, at a golf club, he met his future wife, Ada Karczewska [6] , who had fled from the Germans from Lithuania to London. [five]
U.S. Immigration
Dzevanovsky in 1944 was sent to Washington as an assistant military attache of the Polish government in exile. After the war, Dzevanovsky remained in the United States. Where he entered Harvard University, writing in 1951 a doctoral dissertation on the history of Russia and Eastern Europe. He received American citizenship in 1953. He worked as a teacher at Boston College, and then in 1978, at Boston University. In 1979, Dzevanowski was appointed professor of history of Poland and Eastern Europe at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). He was a member of the Congress of American Polonium , the Polish community and the Polish Society of Science in Exile (1960).
Scientific activity
As a recognized historian, he wrote a number of frequently innovative works. Among them: “History of Soviet Russia”, which was published six times, including in China, where it is used as a textbook in Chinese universities, “Communist Party of Poland”, “United States in the 20th Century”, “War at any price: The Second World War in Europe 1939-1945 ”(three editions - in French, English and Hungarian),“ Alexander I: The Mysterious Tsar of Russia ”. Dzevanovsky had an extensive audience. When in 1983 he was formally (for the second time) dismissed, he went to Europe with a series of lectures. He lectured at the University of Paris, the University of Bordeaux and Oxford. He was an active member of scientific committees dealing with Russia and Eastern Europe. Dzevanovsky’s last lecture at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, entitled “Vladimir Putin and the New Russia,” took place at the end of 2003 and was enthusiastically received by the audience.
Family
- Daughter - Barbara [6]
- Son - Yang [6]
Publications
- Śląsk Opolski , Rzym: nakł. Oddziału Kultury i Prasy 2 Korpusu, 1945.
- (editor) Poland to-day as seen by foreign observers, The Polish freedom movement , "Independence and Democracy" London 1946;
- Nie jesteśmy sami. O krajach i narodach Międzymorza . Londyn 1947, Biblioteka Polska w W. Brytanii,
- The Communist Party of Poland: an outline of history . Cambridge, Mass., 1959 (1976), Harvard University Press, ISBN 0-674-15055-4 ;
- Joseph Pilsudski: a European federalist, 1918-1922 , Hoover Institution Press, Stanford, Calif., 1969, ISBN 0-8179-1791-8
- Poland in the twentieth century , New York 1977; Columbia University Press; ISBN 0-231-03577-2 ;
- Leon Petrażycki , New York: The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America 1981.
- A history of Soviet Russia and its aftermath , Prentice-Hall, (wyd. 5 od 1979) Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1997 ISBN 0-13-392159-X ;
- Lord Wellington, pogromca Napoleona , Wrocław 1997 Wydawnictwo Atla 2, ISBN 83-86882-70-0 ;
- Alexander I - Russian Mysterious Tsar , New York 1990, Hippocrene Books ISBN 0-87052-898-X ;
- War at any price. World War II in Europe, 1939-1945 , Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 1987, 1991 ISBN 0-13-944331-2 ;
- Aleksander I - car Rosji, król Polski , Wrocław 2000, Wydawnictwo Atla 2, ISBN 83-86882-23-9
- Napoleon Bonaparte: kochanek, polityk, mistrz propagandy . Wyd. Atla 2, Wrocław 1998, ISBN 83-86882-41-7
- Książę wielkich nadziei: biografia księcia Adama Jerzego Czartoryskiego . Wrocław 1998, Wydawnictwo Atla 2, ISBN 83-86882-95-6
- Russia in the twentieth century (6th ed.), Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ 2003 ISBN 0-13-097852-3
- Jedno życie to za mało. Kartki z pamiętnika niepoprawnego optymisty . Toruń 1994, Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, ISBN 83-86229-20-9 . Wspomnienia z lat 1919–1992, dotyczące wojny domowej na Ukrainie, studiów prawniczych na Uniwersytetach Jagiellońskim i Warszawskim, nauki w Instytucie Francuskim w Warszawie witziörzi Berlinrjzrjąrjąr37pąrj Berlinr Berlinp Berlinr Berlinp Berlinl Berlinp Berlinr Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin zer Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlin Berlinzer Berlin 39), kampanii wrześniowej, internowania na Litwie, pracy w sekcji polskiej BBC w Londynie, po wojnie pracy profesora w Boston College, Uniwersytetu Harvard i Uniwersytetu stanu Wisconsin w Milwaukee
Biography
- Wojciech Wrzesiński, Marian Kamil Dziewanowski (27 VI 1913 - 18 II 2005), Rocznik PAU 2004/2005, s.255-260.
- Sławomir Łukasiewicz, Marian Kamil Dziewanowski (1913-2005). Szkic do biografii intelektualnej, “Zeszyty Historyczne” 2006, z.155, s. 226-244.
Notes
- ↑ Perseus - 2005.
- ↑ LIBRIS
- ↑ SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ Date of birth is uncertain, there are great differences in different sources. Here by: Dziewanowski, Marian
- ↑ 1 2 MKDziewanowski "Jedno życie to za mało." Toruń 1994
- ↑ 1 2 3 Dziewanowski, Marian
