Witold Filipczak

Witold Aleksander Filipczak - Polish historian, habilitated doctor, lecturer of the University of Warsaw

Curriculum vitae

. Filipczak studied history at the Institute of History of the University of Warsaw in 1982-1987. On July 3, 1997 he became a doctor on the basis of the work of the Sejm from 1778. dr hab. Wojciech Szczygielski (reviewers: Jerzy Grobis and Hubert Izdebski). In the years 1987-1988 he worked as a history teacher, then joined the Institute of History of the UŁ and remained his employee until the present day. First in the Department of History of Modern Poland (then renamed the Department of History of Poland between the 16th and 18th centuries) as assistant-trainee and assistant. In the years 1997-2009 he was employed as an adjunct. Since 2006 in the Chair of Modern History of Poland and the Baltic States. In 2009 he became a senior lecturer at the Department of Modern History.

In 2012, he presented the habilitation dissertation of the Diet of the Province of Wielkopolska in the years 1780-1786 (reviewers: Prof. Zbigniew Anusik, Prof. Jerzy Dygdała, Andrzej Stroynowski, Prof. Michał Zwierzykowski) . In 2013, he received his habilitation degree.

< Research interests

Research interests of W. Filipczak focus on a number of issues: parliamentarianism and political life of the Commonwealth in the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries; the parliamentary life of the Western Crown in the years 1780-1786; During the period of functioning of the Perpetual Council (1775-1788), the functioning of the Sejmik (especially the Province of Wielkopolska) and the Sejm and the political forces in the Crown and Lithuania. Books Bibliography

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