Zygmunt Wojciechowski

Zygmunt Wojciechowski (1900-1955) was a Polish historian of state and law.

He was a professor of Poznań University from 1929, member of Polish Academy of Skills (Polska Akademia Umiejętności, PAU) from 1945, and member of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Polska Akademia Nauk, PAN) from 1952.

Zygmunt Wjciechowski was one of the main ideologists of the Great Poland Camp (Obóz Wielkiej Polski, OWP) since 1934, in the times the German occupation of Poland, during World War II, he was a professor of the underground Western Lands University (Uniwersytet Ziem Zachodnich).

He was the founder and first director of the Western Institute (Instytut Zachodni) in Poznań, which now bears his name, from 1945 to 1955. He was also the founder (1945) and editor-in-chief of the journal Polish Western Affairs ("Przegląd Zachodni") and the editor-in-chief of the Magazine of Law and History (Czasopismo Prawno-Historyczne, 1948–52).

Publications

* "Polska nad Wisłą i Odrą w X wieku", 1939 (=Poland on the Vistula and Oder rivers in the 10th century);
* "Zygmunt Stary..." 1946, (=Sigismund the Old);
* "Państwo polskie w wiekach średnich. Dzieje ustroju", 1945 (=Polish State in the Middle Ages);
* "Studia historyczne" 1955 (=The historical studies)