Sen o szkole
Dreaming About a School

Author(s): Andrzej K. Koźmiński, Ewa Barlik
Subject(s): History, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010)
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: biography; higher education; 20th century; Leon Koźmiński; Leon Kozminski University; Warsaw intelligentsia
Summary/Abstract: An intimate look at the life of Professor Andrzej Koźmiński and at the same time a portrait of a family of Professors hailing from the Warsaw intelligentsia, whose roots trace back to the Eastern Frontier of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. We get to know a scholar of an international, cosmopolitan orientation, a university teacher representing a positivist work ethic and Enlightenment-derived criticism, a leader fascinated by new technologies, a sensitive poet and an art collector. His biography abounds in stories of success but also failure as well as of the obstacles he had to overcome on his way to realizing the dream about his own university, a business school meeting European standards.

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