Józef Smolinski

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Józef Smoliński (born 1952 in Maków Mazowiecki) - Polish military and historian, officer of the Polish Army, professor of humanities. Curriculum vitae

In 1978 he completed his studies in history at the University of Gdańsk. His MA thesis concerned emigration from Gdańsk Pomerania to the United States in the years 1864-1914 (promoter Florian Stasik). Ph.D. Fighting and internment of the 2nd Pedigree Division, which was promoted by Witold Biegański, was defended in 1986 at the National Defense Academy in Warsaw. There, in 1998, based on a dissertation by the Polonia of the Americas in the military-mobilizing plans of the Polish government in exile (1939-1945). By the President of the Republic of Poland on April 19, 2007 he was awarded the title of Professor of Humanities.

He graduated from the Academy of Military Officers. Stefan Czarniecki in Poznań. Since 1975 he was an officer of the Polish Army in the 1st Regiment of Volunteers in Elblag and then in the 16th Regiment of Artillery in Braniewo. In 1979-1988 he was employed at the Academy of the General Staff of the Polish Army in Warsaw, and from 1988 to 1994 he worked at the central institutions of the Ministry of National Defense.

In 1994, he undertook scientific research and didactic work at the Military Historical Institute, and in 2000 he was in the Humanist Institute at the National Security Department of the National Defense Academy. In 1999 he was employed in the Piotrkow Academy of Pedagogy in Piotrków. In 2007 he assumed the leadership of the Department of History after 1945 in the Institute of History at the Faculty of Humanities of the Świętokrzyskie Academy, then transformed into Jan Kochanowski University. Selected publications Bibliography

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