Gerard Labuda
Gerard Labuda was a Polish historian whose main fields of interest were the Middle Ages and the Western Slavs. He was born in Kashubia. He lived and died in Poznań, Poland.Life
Labuda was born in Nowa Huta, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Kartuzy, Poland ), into a Kashubian family. He was the son of Stanislaw Labuda and Anastazja Baranowska. From 1950 he was a professor at Poznań University; rector 1962-1965; from 1951 a member of the Polish Academy of Learning ; president 1989-1994; from 1964 member of the Polish Academy of Sciences ; vice-president 1984-1989; from 1959 to 1961 director of the Western Institute in Poznań and a member of the New York Academy of Sciences. He was buried in Luzino - Kashubia.
From 1958 onwards he edited the multi-volume Słownik Starożytności Słowiańskich and published historical sources. Author of more than 30 books and close to 2000 scholarly publications.
Awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta and the highest Polish distinction Order of the White Eagle .
Award of the Alfred Jurzykowski Foundation, Herder Award. State of Poland awards.
Honorary Doctorates of Gdańsk University, Nicolas Copernicus University, Jagiellonian University, Warsaw University, Wrocław University, and Szczecin University.Works
- Studia nad początkami państwa polskiego, Cracow 1946.
- Pierwsze państwo słowiańskie - państwo Samona , Poznań 1949.
- Fragmenty dziejów Słowiańszczyzny Zachodniej, vols. 1-2, 1960-64.
- Polska granica zachodnia. Tysiąc lat dziejów politycznych, 1971.
- Pierwsze państwo polskie , Cracow 1989.
- O Kaszubach, ich nazwie i ziemi zamieszkania , Gdynia 1991.
- Kaszubi i ich dzieje, 1996,
- Św. Stanisław Biskup krakowski, Patron Polski , Poznań 2000.
- Mieszko I, Wrocław 2002.
- Słowiańszczyzna starożytna i wczesnośredniowieczna , 2003.
- Historia Kaszubów w dziejach Pomorza t.1 Czasy średniowieczne '', Gdańsk 2006.
