Jan Baszkiewicz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jan Baszkiewicz

Polish author and historian

Date of Birth: 03-Jan-1930

Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 27-Jan-2011

Profession: writer, historian, author, political scientist, university teacher

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Jan Baszkiewicz (3 January 1930 – 27 January 2011) was a Polish lawyer and Professor of Law at the University of Wroclaw, the University of Silesia and the University of Warsaw. Baszkiewicz was born in 1930 in Warsaw.
From 1946 to 1950, he studied law at the University of Warsaw where he obtained his PhD in legal sciences in 1954.
After becoming an assistant professor at the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1956, Baszkiewicz accepted a position at the University of Wroclaw where he served as head of the Department of the History of Political and Legal Doctrines from 1959 to 1968, deputy dean of Faculty of Law from 1962 to 1964 and upon becoming an associate professor in 1965, served as vice rector of the university until 1968.
In October 1968, Baszkiewicz was transferred to the University of Silesia where he served as head of the Department of Universal History of State and Law until he was promoted to a full professor in 1972.
Despite his previous position as full professor, Baszkiewicz worked as researcher at the Institute of Political Sciences, University of Warsaw.
He was a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, becoming its correspondent in 1986 and in 1994 became its full member.
He was also a member of the Warsaw Scientific Society and served on a Central Commission for Degrees and Titles.