Editing Gerard Labuda

{{Short description|Polish historian}}
[[File:Prof. Gerard Labuda.jpg|thumb|Gerard Labuda]]
'''Gerard Labuda''' ({{langx|csb|Gerard Labùda}}; 28 December 1916 &ndash; 1 October 2010) was a Polish [[historian]] whose main fields of interest were the [[Middle Ages]] and the [[Western Slavs]]. He was born in [[Kashubia]]. He lived and died in Poznań, Poland.

==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).

==Works==
*''Studia nad początkami państwa polskiego (Studies of the early Polish statehood)'', Cracow 1946.
*''Pierwsze państwo słowiańskie - państwo Samona (The first Slavonic state - Samon's state)'', Poznań 1949.
*''Fragmenty dziejów Słowiańszczyzny Zachodniej'' (Fragments of the History of Western Slavdom), vols. 1&ndash;2, 1960&ndash;64.
*''Polska granica zachodnia. Tysiąc lat dziejów politycznych'' (Poland's Western Border: a Thousand Years of Political History), 1971.
*''Pierwsze państwo polskie (The first Polish state)'', Cracow 1989.
*''O Kaszubach, ich nazwie i ziemi zamieszkania (Kashubian People, their name and land)'', Gdynia 1991. 
*''Kaszubi i ich dzieje'' (Kashubians and their history), 1996, {{ISBN|83-904950-9-0}}
*''Św. Stanisław Biskup krakowski, Patron Polski (Stanislas Bishop of Cracow, Patron Saint of Poland)'', Poznań 2000.
*''Mieszko I'', Wrocław 2002.
*''Słowiańszczyzna starożytna i wczesnośredniowieczna (Slavdom in antiquity and early middle ages)'', 2003.
*''Historia Kaszubów w dziejach Pomorza (The history of Kashubians within history of Pomerania) t.1 Czasy średniowieczne (vol.1 Middle ages)'', Gdańsk 2006.

==See also==
*[[List of Poles#History|List of Poles]]

==External links==
* [http://tygodnik.onet.pl/3229,1401027,dzial.html Jak Kaszuba z Kaszubą. O straconych szansach, przywiązaniu do symboli oraz o narodzie kaszubskim z historykiem prof. Gerardem Labudą rozmawia Tomasz Żuroch-Piechowski, "Tygodnik Powszechny", 26.03.2007 r. Interview (in Polish)]

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