Henryk Łowmiański (August 22, 1898 near Wilkomiria - September 4, 1984 in Poznań) was a Polish historian and academic who was an authority on the early history of the Slavic and Baltic people. A researcher of the ancient history of Poland, Lithuania and the Slavs in general, Łowmiański was the author of many works, including most prominently the six-volume monumental monograph Początki Polski (transl. The Beginnings of Poland).
Henryk Łowmiański (August 22, 1898 near Wilkomiria - September 4, 1984 in Poznań) was a Polish historian and academic who was an authority on the early history of the Slavic and Baltic people. A researcher of the ancient history of Poland, Lithuania and the Slavs in general, Łowmiański was the author of many works, including most prominently the six-volume monumental monograph Początki Polski (transl. The Beginnings of Poland).
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Scholarly years Łowmiański was born to father Konstanty and mother Kazimiera née Rudzińska. After receiving his doctorate on the Wschody" miast litewskich w XVI wieku (transl. Beginnings of Lithuanian Cities) in 1924, Łowmiański became the first history Ph.D. in the University of Stefan Batory (USB). Prior the World War II, working as an academic archivist wrote a two-volume Studia nad początkami społeczeństwa i państwa litewskiego (1931–32), and a treatise Uwagi w sprawie podłoża społec-znego i gospodarczego Unii Jagiellońskiej (1934). In the meantime, he took over the Chair of the History of Eastern Europe in 1932 until the termination of the university in 1939. In 1945, at the invitation of the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Poznań, Kazimierz Tymieniecki, he took over the Chair of the History of Eastern Europe, later renamed the Chair of the History of the Nations of the USSR in 1951, until 1968. In 1946 was appointed as a full professor. He researched the early history of Poland and of the Eastern Slavs, publishing Podstawy gospodarczego formowania się państw słowiańskich (1953) and Zagadnienia roli Normanów w genezie państw słowiańskich (1957) before his most important work, the six-volume monumental monograph Początki Polski between…
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Personal life
His wife was Maria Łowmiańska (1899–1961), a Polish philologist with historical interests, also graduate from USB.
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Awards
He was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1951), the Order of the Banner of Labour, 2nd class (1954), and on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the People's Republic of Poland, he received the first-degree state award. In 1974, he was awarded the Order of the Builders of People's Poland.
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Important works
"Wschody" miast litewskich w 16 wieku (1923–1924)
Studia nad początkami społeczeństwa i państwa litewskiego (2 vol., 1931–32)
Uwagi w sprawie podłoża społec-znego i gospodarczego Unii Jagiellońskiej (1934)
Prusy pogańskie (1935) [English edition: The Ancient Prussians (1936)]
'Wcielenie Litwy do Polski w 1386 r. (1937)
Podstawy gospodarczego formowania się państw słowiańskich (1953)
Zagadnienia roli Normanów w genezie państw słowiańskich (1957)
Geneza państwa ruskiego jako wynik procesu wewnętrznego (1962)
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Początki Polski (6 vol., 1963–1985)
Studia nad dziejami Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego (1983)
Studia nad dziejami Słowiańszczyzny, Polski i Rusi w wiekach średnich (1986)
Religia Słowian i jej upadek (w. VI-XII) (1979)
