Paweł Jasienica

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Leon Lech Beynar

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Birthplace: Ульяновск, Городской округ Ульяновск, Ульяновская область, Russian Federation
Death: August 19, 1970 (60)
Warszawa, Warszawa, Mazowieckie, Poland
Place of Burial: Warszawa, Warszawa, Mazowieckie, Poland
Immediate Family:

Son of Mikołaj Beynar and Helena Beynar
Husband of Władysława Beynar and Private
Father of Private
Brother of Janusz Beynar and Irena Brzozowska

Occupation: historyk, pisarz
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About Paweł Jasienica

Paweł Jasienica was the pen name of Leon Lech Beynar (1909-1970), a Polish historian, journalist, essayist and soldier. During World War II, Jasienica (then, Leon Beynar) fought in the Polish Army, and later, the Home Army resistance. Near the end of the war, he was also working with the anti-Soviet resistance, which later led to him taking up a new name, Paweł Jasienica, to hide from the communist government of the People's Republic of Poland. He was associated with the Tygodnik Powszechny weekly and several other newspapers and magazines. He is best known for his 1960s books on Polish history—on the Kingdom of Poland under the Piast Dynasty, the Jagiellon Dynasty, and the elected kings of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Those books, still popular, played an important role in popularizing Polish history among several generations of readers. Jasienica became an outspoken critic of the censorship in the People's Republic of Poland, and as a notable dissident, he was persecuted by the government. He was subject to significant invigilation (oversight) by the security services, and his second wife was in fact an agent of the communist secret police. For a brief period marking the end of his life, his books were prohibited from being distributed or printed. Wikipedia EN

About Paweł Jasienica (Polski)

Paweł Jasienica, właściwie Leon Lech Beynar (1909-1970) – polski historyk, pisarz historyczny, eseista i publicysta „Tygodnika Powszechnego”. Autor cyklu esejów historycznych Polska Piastów (1960), Polska Jagiellonów (1963), Rzeczpospolita Obojga Narodów (1967–1972), w którym przedstawił własną i publicystyczną koncepcję filozofii historii Polski, wyłożoną wcześniej w Myślach o dawnej Polsce (1960); cykl ten, poświęcony dziejom przedrozbiorowym, zyskał wielką popularność. Wikipedia PL

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Paweł Jasienica's Timeline

1909
November 10, 1909
Ульяновск, Городской округ Ульяновск, Ульяновская область, Russian Federation
1970
August 19, 1970
Age 60
Warszawa, Warszawa, Mazowieckie, Poland
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Cmentarz Powązkowski, Warszawa, Warszawa, Mazowieckie, Poland