Hanna Świda-Ziemba
Hanna Maria Świda-Ziemba (September 19, 1930 – January 11, 2012) was Polish sociologist, scholar and opposition activist in the Polish People's Republic.[1]
Biography
[edit]Her father was professor Witold Świda, and her sister was professor Zofia Świda. She grew up in Vilnius and started keeping a diary from the age of ten, describing life in Soviet-occupied Vilnius, and documenting the post-war period of creating a new socio-political reality in Poland. She became interested in the mechanisms of totalitarian states and would later expand on her observations in her academic studies.[2]
In 1952 she graduated with a degree in sociology from the University of Łódź, in 1960 she obtained a doctoral degree, and in 1969 her habilitation.[1] She began working the University of Warsaw in 1954. She was a member of the presidium of the Polish Academy of Sciences and also lectured at the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities. She has published a number of academic papers, mainly in the field of sociology on the topic of totalitarian systems. She was co-founder of the Institute of Applied Social Sciences as well as the Institute of Social Prevention and Rehabilitation of the University of Warsaw and in the years 1991-1993 she was member of the State Tribunal.[3]
In 2010 she published Youth of the People's Republic of Poland: portraits of generations in historical context, a culmination of many years of research for which she received the Jan Długosz award in 2011. President Bronisław Komorowski awarded Świda-Ziemba the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta for outstanding achievements in research and teaching.[4]
She died on January 11, 2012, in Warsaw and was buried at the Powązki Military Cemetery (section D 31-tuje-6).[5]
Publications
[edit]- Człowiek wewnętrznie zniewolony. Mechanizmy i konsekwencje minionej formacji – analiza psychologiczna, Warszawa 1997
- Młodzi w nowym świecie, Kraków 2005
- Młodzież licealna: analiza wybranych klas warszawskich w latach 1956–58, Warszawa 1963
- Obraz świata i bycia w świecie. Z badań młodzieży licealnej, Warszawa 2000
- Osobowość jako problem pedagogiki, Wrocław 1970
- Stalinizm i społeczeństwo polskie, Warszawa 1991
- Urwany lot. Pokolenie inteligenckiej młodzieży powojennej w świetle listów i pamiętników z lat 1945–1948, Kraków 2003
- Wartości egzystencjalne młodzieży lat dziewięćdziesiątych, Warszawa 1995
- Młodzież PRL. Portrety pokoleń w kontekście historii, Kraków 2010
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Hanna Świda-Ziemba – Encyklopedia Solidarności". 2020-09-27. Archived from the original on 27 September 2020. Retrieved 2021-12-28.
- ^ "Hanna Świda-Ziemba - Uchwycić życie. Wspomnienia, dzienniki i listy 1930-1989 | Ośrodek KARTA". Księgarnia historyczna KARTA (in Polish). Retrieved 2021-12-28.
- ^ Naukowy.pl. "Zmarła prof. Hanna Świda-Ziemba - Społeczeństwo - Naukowy.pl - Polski Serwis Naukowy". Naukowy.pl. Retrieved 2021-12-28.
- ^ "List prezydenta na pogrzebie profesor Hanny Świdy-Ziemby". Oficjalna strona Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej (in Polish). 2012-01-19. Retrieved 2021-12-28.
- ^ Jerzy S. Majewski, Tomasz Urzykowski. Narodowy Panteon na Powązkach. Sławne osoby pochowane w latach 2007–2017. "Gazeta Stołeczna", p. 11, 27 October 2017.
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