Emanuel Halicz – More than Scientist’s Profile
Emanuel Halicz – More than Scientist’s Profile

Summary/Abstract: Emanuel Halicz (1921–2015) was a historian of the 19th century. In 1939 he began his studies at the Ukrainian university in Lviv. In June of 1941 he was evacuated to the Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. From 1943 a political officer in the Polish people’s Army. A member of the Polish Workers’ Party/Polish United Workers’ Party. In 1950 he earned a Ph.D. degree at the Jagiellonian University, Cracow, and was delegated from the army to the Institute for Training Scientific Cadres, where he was employed in 1952. From 1957 he was a lecturer at Feliks Dzerzhinsky Military Political Academy. In 1960 he became associate professor. A member of the committee of the Polish and Soviet Academies of Sciences created to edit and publish historical sources to the period of the January 1863 Uprising. He lost his job in the aftermath of March ’68. In 1971 he emigrated to Denmark, and was demoted to the rank of private. In 1972–1982 he was professor at Odense University, in 1982–1990 at the University of Copenhagen. He collaborated with the Polish émigré periodical Zeszyty Historyczne.

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