Prof. Maria Dzielska – historian, classical philologist, translator of source texts

Maria Dzielska was born on September 18, 1942 in Krakow. She was a historian, a classical philologist and a translator of source texts. For many years, she taught at the Jagiellonian University. Specialized in the history of Rome at the end of the late period and early Byzantine period. Graduate of historical studies at the Jagiellonian University and of studies in classical philology at the University of Lodz.

She received the title of doctor in 1972, she completed her habilitation in 1984 and from 1996 she was a full professor.

Prof. Dzielska was one of the contemporary Polish historians most frequently translated and translated into foreign languages. She translated into Polish the works of Pseudo-Denys the Areopagite. His book "Hypatia z Alexandryrii" (Krakow 1993) was published in the United States in 1995 by Harvard University Press, translated into eight languages ​​and recognized as the best academic book of the year 1995 in the category Philosophy by "Choice Magazine ". The same year, the American History Book Club recognizes it as the best historical book of the year. In English, another Dzielska book, Apollonius of Tiana, has also been published. Legend and reality "(Kraków 1983), also translated into Greek.

Zygmunt Bauman, a philosopher is dead. He was 91 years old

At the age of 91, the philosopher and sociologist Prof. Zygmunt Bauman. He was a cultural theorist and one of the founders of the concept …

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