| dc.description.abstract | The article provided data concerning the academic output of Jerzy Jarowiecki, professor and a long-time director
of the Institute of Library Management and Scientific Information at the Pedagogical University named after the
National Education Commission in Cracow, the Chair of the Journalism Commission of the Branch of the Polish
Academy of Sciences, previous Director of the Main Methodological Centre for Teacher Training. The article's
objective was to present professor’s life and to commemorate the forty-five-year period of his academic work.
Professor was bom on May 27, 1930 in Borysław. He lived through the German occupation period in Lvov. In 1945 he
settled in Bytom and then moved to Wałbrzych. In 1953 he began the Polish philological studies at the Pedagogical
University in Cracow. During his final year at the university he look up the position of the junior assistant ul
tire Chuir of lire History of Polish Literature, where he remained after he had graduated and acquired the title
of Master of Arts. Subsequently, he received the title of doctor and habilitated doctor, became professor
extraordinary, and finally professor ordinary, hi 1978 he was appointed the head of the Department of Library
Management and Scientific Information. In the course of time the Department was transformed into a Chair and then
into the Institute of Library Management and Scientific Information, which was directed by professor Jarowiecki
until 2000, and which was successfully developed by him. In the same year he retired still continuing his work in
the Institute.
The fundamental subject matters of his literary and press research were the historical novel by Władysław
Stanisław Reymont, and the literature and the press of the war and German occupation period. The total of his 350
works was published until the end of 1999. Professor conferred 23 doctor’s degrees, was a reviewer of 15 doctoral
and 20 habilitated dissertations, was frequently a member of various academic commissions and reviewed the case
of conferring the title of professor.
Professor Jarowiecki has great achievements in publishing. He published the novel “Lubonie” by J.I. Kraszewski,
he continued with other works by the same author, and he published Maria Konopnicka’s “Historic and Literary
Letters”.
Between 1987 and 1990 he performed the function of Prorector of the Pedagogical University. He organised the
Institute of Polish Philology at the Szczecin University, and he was the Director of the Main Methodological
Centre for Teacher Training.
For his academic and didactic work, as well as social involvement, professor Jarowiecki was awarded numerous
orders and medals. In 2000 he was granted the Officer Cross of Poland’s Revival Order. | en_EN |
