Józef Feldman

Józef Feldman, war pseudonym Józef Sokołowski, born on 1 August 1899 in Przemyśl, died on 16 June 1946 in Cracow, Pole of Jewish descent, historian, professor of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow and member of the Polish Academy of Learning.

He was son of Wilhelm Feldman, writer, playwright, literary critic and historian, and Maria Kleinman, a translator of Western literature.

He graduated from secondary school (Gimnazjum no 4) in Cracow in 1917, then studied law (1917–1919) and history (1919–1922) in the Jagiellonian University, among others under the direction of Władysław Konopczyński and Stanisław Kot. During 1918-1920 he served as a volunteer in the Polish Army.

In 1922 he was appointed assistant in the Seminar of History of the Jagiellonian University, in 1923 he defended his doctor thesis Polska w dobie wielkiej wojny północnej 1704-1709" [Poland in the Time of the Great Northern War 1704-1709] elaborated under the supervision of Stanisław Kot.

In 1927 he passed examination for post-doctoral degree based on his study Polska a sprawa wschodnia 1709-1714 [Poland and the Eastern Question 1709-1714] and became senior reade in the Department of Universal History of the Jagiellonian University.

Since 1937 he was associate professor, and at the same time took over the management of the Department of Modern History of the Jagiellonian University and was the chief thereof until the outbreak of World War II and since the end of the war. He lectured the universal history and the diplomatic history of the 19th century and 20th century; since 1929 he additionally lectured the same subjects in the School of Political Sciences in Cracow. He was a visiting lecturer in Paris, was involved in the activities of the International Congress of Historical Sciences in Warsaw in 1933 as well as in Zurich in 1938, was one of the initiators of the International Institute of the History of the French Revolution in Paris.

His friends included historians Władysław Konopczyński, Stanisław Kot, Marian Kukiel, Stanisław Kutrzeba as well as foreign scholars.

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