Stanislav Andreski, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Polish-British sociologist
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Place of Birth: Częstochowa, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
About Stanislav Andreski
- Stanislaw Andrzejewski (or Stanislav Andreski) (8 May 1919, in Czestochowa – 26 September 2007, in Reading, Berkshire) was a Polish-British sociologist.
- He is known for his indictment of the "pretentious nebulous verbosity" endemic in the modern social sciences in his classic work Social Sciences as Sorcery (1972). Andrzejewski was a Polish Army officer.
- During the German-Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets.
- He escaped to Britain and fought against the Germans on the Western Front in Wladyslaw Anders' Polish II Corps. At the University of Reading, United Kingdom, he was a professor of sociology, a department he founded in 1965.
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