Editing Gerard Labuda (section)

==Life==
Labuda was born in [[Nowa Huta, Pomeranian Voivodeship]], [[Gmina Kartuzy|Kartuzy]], Poland (before 1918 Neuhütte/ Karthaus, [[West Prussia]] / [[Prussian Partition|Prussian Partition of Poland]], Germany), into a [[Kashubians|Kashubian]] family.  He was the son of Stanislaw Labuda and Anastazja Baranowska. From 1950 he was a professor at [[Poznań University]]; rector 1962&ndash;1965; from 1951 a member of the [[Polish Academy of Learning]] (''PAU''); president 1989&ndash;1994;  from 1964 member of the [[Polish Academy of Sciences]] (''PAN''); vice-president 1984&ndash;1989; from 1959 to 1961 director of the [[Western Institute]] (''Instytut Zachodni'') 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]]'' (''Dictionary of Slavonic Antiquities'') 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]] (1996) and the highest Polish distinction [[Order of the White Eagle (Poland)|Order of the White Eagle]] (2010; posthumously) .

Award of the Alfred Jurzykowski Foundation (USA, 1983), [[Herder Award]] (Austria, 1991). State of Poland awards (1949, 1951, 1970).

Honorary Doctorates of [[Gdańsk University]] (1986), [[Nicolas Copernicus University]] (1993), [[Jagiellonian University]] (1995), [[Warsaw University]] (1997), [[Wrocław University]] (1999) and [[Szczecin University]] (2003).