Jozef Lewandowski

Who was Jozef Lewandowski?

Józef Lewandowski was a Polish-born Swedish historian.

In his youth he fought in World War II. After the war he studied at Warsaw University, with his doctoral thesis completed in 1961. He specialised in East-European history and national issues.

In 1969 he arrived as a political refugee to Sweden and was associated with Uppsala University, where he worked until his retirement in 1988. He has published a large amount of scientific writings, among which several books. Peter Englund, who wrote the foreword to his last book Knutpunkt Stockholm, was one of Józef Lewandowski's students in Uppsala.

Józef Lewandowski died on November 17, 2007 in Stockholm.