Wrocławski okres w życiu Jana Baszkiewicza

Jan Baszkiewicz, the eminent political and legal thought historian, in the years 1959–1968 was associated with the University of Wrocław, working at the Faculty of Law and Administration. The nine-year Wrocław period was very important in Jan Baszkiewicz’s life. First employed at the Chair of General History of State and Law and, later, at the Chair of History of Political and Legal Doctrines, Jan Baszkiewicz can be deemed the father of the Wrocław history of political and legal doctrines. For didactic purposes, he developed academic course materials on the above subject, on which History of Political and Legal Doctrines, published together with Franciszek Ryszka in 1969, was based. It was the first Polish academic textbook fully discussing the history of political and legal thought from antiquity to contemporary times. During his stay in Wrocław, Jan Baszkiewicz published Sovereign State in the Feudal Political Doctrine until the Early 14th Century (Warsaw 1964), one of the most significant studies among all of his scientific achievements, which has later become a classic of the genre and strengthened Jan Baszkiewicz’s position among Polish state and law historians. He also performed important organisational functions. In 1960, Jan Baszkiewicz was appointed the Head of the Department of Political Doctrines, and, in 1963, of the Chair of Political and Le- gal Doctrines. From 1962 until 1964, he was Deputy Dean for Didactics of the Faculty of Law. In September 1965, Jan Baszkiewicz was appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Youth of the University of Wrocław and fulfilled that role through to the March 1968 Polish political crisis. Due to the attitude he demonstrated towards that situation, he was forced to move from Wrocław to the University of Si- lesia in Katowice. In 2003, the University of Wrocław conferred an honorary doctorate upon him.