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Commission on Biography
| Chairperson | Elżbieta Orman |
| Deputy Chairperson | Agata Barzycka-Paździor |
| Deputy Chairperson | Mariusz Wołos |
| Secretary | Krzysztof Kloc |
The Biography Commission was brought into being on 1 June 2021 by a decision of the Board of Faculty II (History and Philosophy) of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. It aims to consolidate the community of researchers working on biography and life writing understood in broad terms as a genre in the field of the history of historiography.
The editors of the Dictionary of Polish Biography and their associates are responsible for establishing the Biography Commission. The appearance of this monumental work of Polish historiography, which occurred in 1935, was thanks to PAU.
Indeed, its editorial board remains to this day in the PAU building at ul. Sławkowska 17 in Kraków, which has become something of a mecca for biography and life writing pursued as an academic discipline.
Tasks of the Biography Commission
1. To conduct open didactic and scientific meetings on life writing and biography in its broadest sense, including in the fields of historical biography, encyclopaedic and dictionary biography, genealogy, and the theory of biographical research and its place in the discipline of history
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Biography
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Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly
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