Hieronim Eugeniusz Kubiak (30 September 1934 – 21 April 2024) was a sociologist, politician and professor at the Jagiellonian University.
Biography He came from the working class family; he was the son of Marian and Genowefa. In 1953 he joined Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR). He was a graduate of Russian philology (1956) and sociology (1964) from the Jagiellonian University. He was an activist and chairman of the Kraków Branch of the Polish Students' Association (ZSP); later he became its honorary member. He defended his doctoral thesis in 1968 under the supervision of Kazimierz Dobrowolski. In 1972 he obtained habilitation.
From 1971 to 1972 he was an advisor to Deputy Prime Minister . In the academic year 1976/1977 he stayed in the USA as a scholarship holder of the Fulbright. In 1976 he was the initiator of the Institute for Polish Diaspora Research of the Jagiellonian University in Przegorzały (Instytut Badań Polonijnych UJ w Przegorzałach), and was its director between 1976–1981 and 1987–1991. He was creator and editor of the journal Przegląd Polonijny, issued from 1975.
His research interests included nation, religion, Polish diaspora (including Poles in the United States), as well as peace and conflicts between different groups and political sociology. He supervised 18 doctoral dissertations and more than 500 master's dissertations.
He was a secretary of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party from 1981 to 1982 and a member of the Central Committee Politburo from 1981 to 1986.
From 1982, he served as Chairman of the Scientific Council of the .
He took part in the Round Table talks on the government side. He was a co-founder and, from 1989 to 1993, president of the Kuźnica association. He had a dog called Maciuś.
His remainings were buried at the Rakowicki Cemetery.
Works
Edited works Co-edited with . Co-edited with Eugeniusz Kusielewicz and Tadeusz Gromada. Co-edited with , Jarosław Rokicki and M. Wawrykiewicz.
Co-edited with Jerzy J. Wiatr.
Awards Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" (1985) Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2002) Kowadło, awarded by the Kuźnica association (2012)
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