Professor Stefan Kowal - Sozial- und Witrschaftshistoriker und akademischer Lehrer [Professor Stefan Kowal - social and economic historian and academic teacher]

Abstract

Professor Stefan Kowal has been associated with Poznań and the Institute of History of the Adam Mickiewicz University (UAM) for almost his entire life. He was born on February 2, 1938 in Kuźnica Grabowska into a wealthy family. Both the living conditions and the political situation in Poland in the first half of the 1950s meant that he was unable to continue his education for three years after primary school in 1952. After passing the school-leaving examination at the Mechanical Technical School in Świebodzin in 1960, he began studying history at the Adam Mickiewicz University.