Stanislav Andreski

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1919 – 2007

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Who was Stanislav Andreski?

Stanisław Andrzejewski was a Polish-British sociologist known best for his scathing indictment of the "pretentious nebulous verbosity" endemic in the modern social sciences in his classic work Social Sciences as Sorcery.

Andrzejewski was a Polish Army officer. During the German-Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets. He escaped to Britain and fought against the Germans on the Western Front in Władysław Anders Polish II Corps.

At the University of Reading, United Kingdom, and he was a professor of sociology, a department he founded in 1965.

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Born
May 8, 1919
Poland
Died
Sep 26, 2007
Reading

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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