Jan Władysław Woś

Jan Władysław Woś (born April 19, 1939 in Warsaw) is a Polish historian, essayist, as well as fiction writer, bibliophile and book collector.

Jan Władysław Woś in 1996

He graduated from the University of Warsaw discussing a thesis on Dante's philosophical system (De amore in Dantis Divina Comoedia quaestiones). He studied later in Milan, Louvain, Florence, Pisa, Bonn, and Heidelberg. He has taught History of the Eastern Europe at the Universities of Pisa (1976-1987), Heidelberg (1985–86), Trento (1987-2009), and Venice (1990–91), also contributing to anthropological research in both Africa and Amazonia.

His fields of interest are Polish history in the Sixteenth Century and History of the Roman Church, particularly regarding Italian/Polish relations. Having obtained his Italian citizenship in 1987, he was awarded a “laurea honoris causa” from the Polish University Abroad of London.[1] He is a Member of the Société Historique et Littéraire Polonaise de Paris, and of the Polish Society of Arts and Sciences Abroad in London.

Jan Władysław Woś in 2005

He owns remarkable collections of rare books, prints, engravings, parchments from the 10th to the 16th centuries, and topographical maps,[2] all related to Polish history and culture. He contributes to international periodicals, and is in the course of publishing largely informative and intellectually stimulating excerpts from his memoires[3] and diaries.[4]

References
  1. Hic est permagnus dies festus. Przemówienie wygłoszone w Londynie 19 lipca 2002 z okazji nadania tytułu doktora honoris causa przez Polski Uniwersytet na Obczyźnie, London, The Polish University Abroad, 2002.
  2. P. Bellini, Carte geografiche della Polonia (sec. XVI-XIX). Dalla collezione di Jan Władysław Woś, Trento, Editrice Università degli Studi di Trento, 1995.
  3. Jan Władysław Woś, Ze wspomnień ucznia Liceum Kołłątaja w Warszawie (1954-1958), Warszawa, PIW, 2011; id., Na drogach Europy. Wspomnienia, Warszawa, Anagram, 2016.
  4. Jan Władysław Woś, Dziennik 1955-1956, Trento, Editrice Università degli Studi di Trento, 1997; Id., Londra 2006. Taccuino di viaggio, Trento, Editrice Università degli Studi di Trento, 2007; Id., Zapiski rzymskie. Wybrane fragmenty z roku 1974, “Odra”, 2010, 12 (586), pages 48-59; Id., Dziennik włoski, “Twórczość”, 2012, 8 (801), pages 52-88.


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