Wladyslaw Niewiarowski (geographer)

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Władysław Niewiarowski (born June 24, 1924 in Ciukantowicza (Baranavichy district), March 26, 2015 in Torun) is a Polish geographer specializing in geography, geology and paleogeography and geomorphology.

Born and raised in the area of ​​present-day Belarus, in 1941 he started working as a locksmith at a railway workshop in Baranavichy while attending a Russian evening school. Education stopped the seizure of these areas by Germany, in the years 1942-1943 he worked as a worker in the peat mine in Stołowicz. In 1944 he was arrested by the Germans and spent six months in the camp in Baranavichy. After the entry of the Soviet troops, he returned to the locksmith's work and to the school.

In 1945 he went to Poland, passed his matura exam in Sopot and undertook studies in biology and geography, initially in the State Pedagogy in Gdańsk, then at the Higher School of Pedagogy in Gdansk. In the years 1948-50 he worked as a teacher in Tri-City schools, and from 1950 to 1952 at WSP. In 1952, he received a master's degree in geography at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń under the direction of Raymund Galon, and was employed as an aspirant at the Department of Physical Geography of this university. He received his doctorate at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in 1959. His postdoctoral dissertations were postglacial forms and types of deglacisation on Chełmińska Highlands, and the promoter - Rajmund Galon. He obtained his habilitation degree in 1965 on the basis of Kemy's dissertation and related forms in Denmark and the distribution of ice creams in Peribalticum within the last glaciation. In 1972 he was awarded the title of associate professor, and in 1988 he was a professor of earth sciences.

Between 1972 and 1975 he was Dean of the Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences at the Nicolaus Copernicus University. He was the director (1975-1987) and deputy director (1970-1972) of the Institute of Geography. He headed the Department of Geomorphology (1970-1976), Department of Geomorphology and Physical Geography (1976-1990), then the Department of Geography and Paleogeography of the Quaternary (1990-1994). Selected publications Bibliography Authoritative control (person):

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