Jerzy Kondracki

• Autorzy: Richling A.
• Języki publikacji: PL

Abstrakty

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Professor Jerzy Kondracki Pb.D. (1908- 1998) was born in Warsaw. He attended to the Władysław IV secondary school and in 1926-1931 he studied geography at the University of Warsaw. After graduation he worked in the education system and in 1933 he took a post at the Department of Geography. In 1938 he was promoted a doctor on the basis of his dissertation „Studia nad morfologią i hydrografią Pojezierza Brasławskiego” (Studies on morphology and hydrography of the Brasław Lake District). He participated in the 1939 Defensive War and then he spent the years of war in the Woldenberg (Dobiegniew) Oflag. In 1945 he came back to work at the University of Warsaw and in 1954 he was promoted an associated professor and a full professor in 1969. In 1953-1977 he ran the Chair (later the Department) of Physical Geography and simultaneously in 1953- 1956 he was the Dean of the Faculty of Biology and Earth Sciences. In 1970-1977 he was the Director of the extra-faculty Institute of Geography at the University of Warsaw and after the forming of the Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies - the Director of the Institute of Physico-geographical Sciences. In 1979 he retired but until 1997 he was still employed part-time at the University of Warsaw. Professor J. Kondracki developed the landscape direction in the Polish geography. He organized the first complex studies of the natural environment. He devised the physico-geographical regionalisation and the classification of the natural landscape of Poland. He published over 750 works and papers on complex physical geography, geomorphology, limnology, cartography, and didactics of geography. He is the author of the popular textbooks: „Geografia fizyczna Polski” (The Physical Geography of Poland; 12 editions, including 2 abroad), „Ogólna wiedza o Ziemi” (General Knowledge on the Earth), „Podstawy regionalizacji fizycznogeograficznej” (The Physico-geographical regionalization fundamentals), „Geografia regionalna Polski” (The Regional Geography of Poland) , and monographs „Polska północno-wschodnia” (The North-Eastern Poland) and „Karpaty” (The Carpathian Mountains). Since 1975 he was the Head of the Commission on Standardization of Geographical Names Outside the Republic of Poland at the National Education Ministry. In 1986-1997 he was a member of Commission on Standardization of Names at the Council of Ministers. He educated over 200 masters and he promoted 21 doctors. He was a meritorious member of the Polish Geographic Society: in 1959-1968 he was assigned the President of the Society and the Vice-President in 1953- 1959 and 1968-1987. In 1976 he was elected a honorary member of the Polish Geographic Society and a Honorary President in 1987. He was also a honorary member of five foreign geographic societies.

• Wydawca: -
• Czasopismo: Prace i Studia Geograficzne
• Rocznik: 2008
• Tom: 40
• Opis fizyczny: s.101-142,fot.

Twórcy

autor

Richling A.

• Instytut Geografii Fizycznej, Uniwersytet Warszawski, ul.Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, 00-927 Warszawa