Stanisław Salmonowicz
Stanisław Salmonowicz was a Polish historian, professor of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, and a member of the Polish Academy of Learning and History Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
He specialised in the history of law, Polish history from the time of the Polish Enlightenment to World War II, and history of Polish-German relations. He has been described as one of the premier Polish authorities in the field of the history of law.
Biography
Salmonowicz was born on 9 November 1931 in Brzesc nad Bugiem. He got his doctorate in law in 1959 at the University of Warsaw. His thesis was about a city of Toruń lawyer Krystian Bogumił Steiner. In 1959 he began working at the Jagiellonian University, where he finished his habilitation in 1966 with a thesis about criminal law of the enlightened absolutism era. From that year he moved to Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, where he served as the vice dean. In 1970 due to his ties to another historian, Paweł Jasienica, he was arrested for anti-governmental activism by the Polish communist authorities of the People's Republic of Poland and fired from the university in the next year. In 1972 he began work at the History Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences where he would work until 2003. From 1981 he resumed his work at the University of Toruń. In 1983 he received the rank of special professor and in 1989, the higher rank of the regular professor. He has also served as a guest lecturer at a number of universities outside Poland.Salmonowicz received a medal for "Deeds for City of Toruń" and the Cross of Freedom and Solidarity in 2012.
In 2022, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Jagiellonian University.
Salmonowicz in Toruń on 24 May 2022, at the age of 90.