Jan Michał Baszkiewicz (3 January 1930 – 27 January 2011) was a lawyer, historian, politologist, historian of ideas, member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Biography He came from an intelligentsia family; he was the son of Bolesław Ludwik Baszkiewicz, a white-collar worker at the Municipal Transport Company in Warsaw, and Michalina née Perzanowska. He graduated from the Władysław IV High School in Warsaw. In the years 1946–1950 he studied law at the University of Warsaw. Until 1948 he was an activist of the , in which he was member of the main committee and vice-chairman of the Warsaw committee; while his supervisor was Andrzej Munk.
From October 1949 he was a deputy assistant at the Department of General History of State and Law at the University of Warsaw. In the years 1951–1953 he served as a postgraduate student at the Department of History of State and Law at the University of Warsaw, headed by Juliusz Bardach, in whose scientific seminar he also participated. In 1954 he wrote his doctoral thesis, Powstanie zjednoczonego państwa polskiego na przełomie XIII i XIV wieku, under the supervision of Juliusz Bardach. In 1959, he was transferred to the University of Wrocław, where he became head of the Department of the History of Political and Legal Doctrines at the Faculty of Law. He was a historical consultant on the film Danton.
He authored several hundred works, including about 30 books. In 1986 he became a corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and in 1994 – a full member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He was a full member of the Warsaw Scientific Society and a member of Accademia dei Lincei. He supervised twenty six doctoral dissertations. His doctoral students included Adam Wielomski, , Józef Ciągwa, , , and Bartłomiej Zdaniuk. In the years 1951–1990 he was a member of the Polish United Workers' Party. He was a member of and .
He was buried at the Evangelical Reformed Cemetery in Warsaw.
Works
Further editions: 1971, 1973, 1984. Co-authored with . 1998, 2009. 1978, 1995, 1999, 2004, 2008. 1989. 1980, 1990.
Co-authored with Stefan Meller. 1985. 1995.
2002. 2009.
Accolades Knight of the Legion of Honour “as a distinguished ambassador of Polish culture in France and a devoted advocate of Polish-French scientific cooperation” (1996) Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta “in recognition of outstanding merits in scientific and teaching activities, for achievements in professional work” (2 August 2002) Honorary degree of the University of Wrocław (2003) Honorary degree of the Pedagogical Academy in Kraków (2005) Honorary degree of the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (2008) Honorary degree of the Jagiellonian University (2008)
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