Jan Wasilkowski

Jan Wasilkowski
Born(1898-05-11)11 May 1898
Sławków, Congress Poland
Died14 July 1977(1977-07-14) (aged 79)
Warsaw, Poland[1]
OccupationsJurist, judge, politician

Jan Wasilkowski (11 May 1898 – 14 July 1977) was a Polish jurist, judge and politician.

Biography

He was the son of Czesław and Aleksandra.[2] In 1918 he started studying law in Vienna and after one year he moved to Kraków.[3] During his studies, he took part in the Polish-Bolshevik War as an artillery second lieutenant.[3] In 1923 he obtained doctorate in law from the Jagiellonian University.[4] In 1924 he obtained doctorate in law from the University in Nancy.[4] In July 1924 he started work as an assistant at the University of Warsaw, working under Karol Lutostański.[4] In 1929 he obtained habilitation.[4] In the years 1926–1932, he was an editorial secretary of the journal Themis Polska.[4] From 1933 he was a member of the Codification Commission.[3][4]

In 1939, he was mobilized into the army and fought in the September Campaign[5] in an artillery unit,[4] initially on the Narew river,[4] later in the defense of Warsaw.[4] He was wounded, sent to Ujazdowski Hospital[4] and taken prisoner.[5] He was then deported to Third Reich and spent the rest of the war in POW camps.[6] During his time in Nazi captivity in Oflag VI B, Dössel, he co-organized law courses for POWs.[7] He came back to Poland in 1946.[5]

From 1946 to 1948 he was a member of the Polish Socialist Party.[2] In 1948 he joined the Polish United Worker's Party (PZPR) and remained its member until his death in 1977.[2] He was a member of the University Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party at the University of Warsaw.[8]

He was dean of the Law Faculty of the University of Warsaw from 1947 to 1949 and rector of the University of Warsaw from 1949 to 1952[2] He consistently used dialectical and historical materialism as a research method.[3] In 1948 he became a judge of the Supreme Court.[2] He was a member of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party from 1964 to 1969.[2] Earlier, from 1959 to 1964 he was deputy member of the Central Committee.[2] In 1952 he was elected a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.[2] From 1956 to 1967 he was the First President of the Supreme Court.[2][5] In the years 1947–1956 he headed the Department of Civil Law at the University of Warsaw.[9] From 1953 to 1956 he was director of the Institute of Legal Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences.[9] He was a member of the Presidium of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1957–1968 and secretary of the Department I of Social Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1955–1957.[10]

After retiring, he chaired the Codification Commission at the Ministry of Justice from 1956 to 1968.[2][3] He was a co-author of the draft Civil Code of Poland, adopted in 1964.[9] From 1961 to 1973, he was a member of Sejm.[1][3] He was Chairman of the Justice Committee of Sejm.[2] He was delegate to the 3rd and 4th Congresses of the Polish United Workers' Party.[2]

He was married to Zofia Wasilkowska, their son was Andrzej Wasilkowski.[11]

Works

  • Encyklopedia podręczna prawa prywatnego. Vol. 2–4. Co-authored with Fryderyk Zoll jr.
  • Zagadnienie waloryzacji zobowiązań prywatno-prawnych w orzecznictwie francuskim. Warsaw. 1926.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Własność i inne prawa rzeczowe: z zagadnień kodyfikacji prawa cywilnego. Warsaw. 1951.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • "Typy i formy własności w projekcie Konstytucji PRL". Państwo i Prawo (3). 1952.

Honors and awards

Commemoration

In 1979 a street in the Ursynów district in Warsaw was named after him.[18]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Wasilkowski Jan". bs.sejm.gov.pl. Retrieved 23 June 2026.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "Dane osoby z katalogu kierowniczych stanowisk partyjnych i państwowych PRL". katalog.bip.ipn.gov.pl. Archived from the original on 24 January 2025. Retrieved 23 June 2026.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Jan Wasilkowski (1949–1952)". uw.edu.pl. Archived from the original on 28 April 2026. Retrieved 23 June 2026.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Dolata, Tomasz (2023). "Początki kariery naukowej profesora Jana Wasilkowskiego" (PDF). Acta Universitatis Wratislaviensis. Wrocław: 131–141. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 June 2026. Retrieved 23 June 2026.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Jan Wasilkowski". slawkow.pl. Archived from the original on 27 March 2025. Retrieved 23 June 2026.
  6. ↑ Falkowska, W. (1961). "„…nic niezwykłego nie było w moim życiu"". Prawo i Życie (7).
  7. ↑ "Tradycja prawa. Rozmowa z profesor Katarzyną Sójką-Zielińską; Kierownikiem Katedry Powszechnej Historii Państwa i Prawa WPiA Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego". Edukacja Prawnicza. 2 (38): 20. 2001.
  8. ↑ Rutkowski, Tadeusz (2016). "Na styku nauki i polityki. Uniwersytet Warszawski w PRL 1944–1989". In Piotr M. Majewski (ed.). Dzieje Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego po 1945. Warsaw. p. 418.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  9. 1 2 3 "Poczet Dyrektorów Instytutu Nauk Prawnych PAN". inp.pan.pl. Archived from the original on 8 February 2026. Retrieved 23 June 2026.
  10. ↑ "Wasilkowski, Jan". pan.pl. Archived from the original on 30 May 2024. Retrieved 23 June 2026.
  11. ↑ Menkes, Jerzy. "Wspomnienie o prof. Andrzeju Wasilkowskim". przegladpm.blogspot.com. Archived from the original on 8 May 2020. Retrieved 26 March 2026.
  12. ↑ "M.P. 1947 nr 29 poz. 280". isap.sejm.gov.pl. Retrieved 23 June 2026.
  13. ↑ "M.P. 1952 nr 52 poz. 701". isap.sejm.gov.pl. Retrieved 23 June 2026.
  14. ↑ "M.P. 1954 nr 112 poz. 1566". isap.sejm.gov.pl. Retrieved 23 June 2026.
  15. ↑ "M.P. 1955 nr 112 poz. 1450". isap.sejm.gov.pl. Retrieved 23 June 2026.
  16. ↑ "Wręczenie odznaczeń w Belwederze". Nowiny (170): 2. 20 July 1964.
  17. ↑ Nowiny. 165 (8951): 2. 22 July 1977.
  18. ↑ Handke, Kwiryna (1998). Słownik nazewnictwa Warszawy. Warsaw: Slawistyczny Ośrodek Wydawniczy. p. 353. ISBN 83-86619-97X.

Bibliography

  • Czachórski, Witold (1977). "Jan Wasilkowski 1898–1977". Państwo i Prawo (10): 105–108.
  • Rozynek, Józef; Ziółkowski, Józef Julian (2002). Doktorzy honoris causa Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego 1948–2002. Wrocław. pp. 38–39.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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