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About Roman Wapiński
- Roman Wapinski (8 March 1931 – 14 May 2008) was a Polish historian, lecturer at the University of Gdansk.
- He specialized in the history of the Second Polish Republic and right-wing National Democracy political camp, being the foremost historian of National Democracy.
- Wapinski was considered one of the foremost Polish historians.Wapinski graduated in 1955 from the Department of History of the University of Warsaw.
- All his later life he was however related to the city of Gdansk.
- Also thanks to his efforts, the University of Gdansk was opened in 1970.
- Wapinski was an active member of the Polish United Workers' Party, which helped him to accomplish many of his organizational efforts.
- He gained a professor degree in 1971.
- He received Doctor honoris causa from the University of Wroclaw on 28 February 2001.
- Wapinski was since 2003 a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
- In 1999-2002 he presided over its Committee of Historical Sciences. He wrote about 400 scientific works and led about 270 graduation theses and 35 doctorates.
- He led graduation theses e.g.
- of Donald Tusk, Arkadiusz Rybicki or Wieslaw Walendziak.
- Donald Tusk wrote his thesis about formation of the legend of Józef Pilsudski in the interwar press. In his scientific works, Wapinski focused mostly on the Second Polish Republic and the right-wing National Democracy political camp.
- His book Narodowa Demokracja 1893-1939: Ze studiów nad dziejami mysli nacjonalistycznej (National Democracy 1893-1939: From the Study of the History of Nationalist Thought), published in 1980, was a groundbreaking work on the National Democracy.
- Historian Szymon Rudnicki pointed out that all contemporary works about National Democracy have their sources in Wapinski's book.
- The book is so far an ultimate work on the National Democratic ideology.
- In his later works, he focused on the political consciousness of Poles and their attitude towards the state.
- Wapinski also wrote several synthetic books about Polish political generations and the sociopolitical environment, in which they worked and shaped the Polish politics.
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