Edward Wiśniewski (geographer)

Edward Kazimierz Wiśniewski (born November 4, 1936 in Inowrocław, Poland) is a geographer specializing in geomorphology and paleogeography of the Quaternary.

In 1954, he graduated from the First High School in Warsaw. Jan Kasprowicz in Inowrocław and after taking an annual pedagogical course he took up the job of a teacher in elementary school. He then studied geography at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, graduated in 1960, among his lecturers were Rajmund Galon and Ludmila Roszko. After graduation he worked at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 1968 he obtained his doctorate degree, the subject of his dissertation were Structure and texture of the Ostrołęka sandstone and the terrain of the upper Drwęca valley, and the promoter of the Rajmund Galon. In 1977, in the same institute, on the basis of a dissertation, the geomorphological development of the Vistula River valley between Płock Plateau and the Toruń Basin.

In 1984-1998 he worked at the Nicolaus Copernicus University, in 1990 he became an associate professor, and in 1996 he became a professor of natural sciences. In 1984-1990 he was Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences of the Nicolaus Copernicus University, and from 1990 to 1998 he headed the Department of Geomorphology of this university. He also lectured at the Pomeranian Pedagogical Academy in Slupsk (1998) and the Pomeranian School of Tourism and Hotel Industry in Bydgoszcz (1999).

He participated in research expeditions on Spitsbergen (1973) and Bunger Oasis (1978-1979). Selected publications Bibliography Authoritative control (person):

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