Professor Michał Tymowski
Biography
B. 1941; master’s degree at the Warsaw University in 1964, Ph.D. and habilitation there in 1971, 1981. Employed at the Warsaw University Historical Institute since 1964 as assistant, senior assistant, assistant professor, associate professor, since 1991, professor since 1993. Full professor, 2001. Deputy director of the Warsaw University Historical Institute 1987-1989. Director of the Warsaw University Historical Institute 2002-2008. Head of the Department of General Medieval History at the Institute of History, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (UMCS) in Lublin 1984-1989, professor at the Faculty of Slavic Studies, Paris IV-Sorbonne University and director of the Centre of Polish Civilization at the Sorbonne 1989-1993, member of the Main Board of the Polish Historical Association 1972-1976, Scientific Secretary of the Committee of Historical Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences 1973-1974, leader of an academic expedition Sahara 74 1974-1975, member of the Main Committee of the Historical Olympiad 1975-1982, member of the Scientific Council of the Department of Non-European Countries, Polish Academy of Sciences 1975-1981 and 1987-1989; Deputy President of the Polish African Society 1993-1996; 1996-2000 Deputy Director of the Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Paris; Deputy President of the Division I of Social Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences – 2002, Member of the Editorial Board of Przegląd Historyczny 1973-1975, Member of the Editorial Board of Hemispheres since 1984, Member of the Editorial Board of Histoire et Afrique since 2006. Scientific editor (together with R. Karpiński) of the Great Problems of Human History series in SW Czytelnik. Organizer of the section States and Empires in Africa before 1800 in the XVII International Congress of Historical Sciences in Madrid 1990.
Member of the Board of Governors of OBTA and member of the Board of Governors of the Institute of Developing Countries – Faculty of Geography, member of the Board of Governors of the Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, member of the Committee of Historical Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences.
Bibliography
Le Niger voie de communication des grands Etats du Soudan Occidental, Africana Bulletin, 1967, s. 73-95 (reedycja w serii An Expanding World, ed. A. Russel-Wood, M. Steele, vol. I, The Global Opportunity, ed. by F. Fernández-Armesto, Cambridge 1995, s. 253-275);
Les domaines des princes du Songhay, Annales ESC, 1970, s.1637-1658;
Le développement et la régression chez les peuples de la boucle du Niger a l’époque précoloniale, Warszawa 1974;
Historia Mali, Wrocław 1979; Dzieje Timbuktu, Wrocław 1979;
The Evolution of Primitive Political Organization from Extended Family to Early State, [w:] Development and Decline. The Evolution of Socio-political organization, ed. H. Claessen, et al., Massachusetts, 1985, s. 183-195
Historia Polski, Paryż 1986 (wraz z J. Kieniewiczem i J.Holzerem, pięć wydań), wyd. bułgarskie, W. Trnowo 1998;wyd. rosyjskie Moskwa 2004; L’Amee et la formation des Etats en Afrique Occidentale au XIXe siecle, Varsovie 1987;
Early State and after in precolonial West Sudan. Problems of Stability of political organization and the obstacles to their development [w:] Early State Dynamics, ed. H. Claessen, et al., Leiden 1987, s. 54-69;
Geneza i funkcjonowanie wczesnych form państwowości na tle porównawczym, Warszawa 1992 (współautorstwo i współredakcja) Najkrótsza historia Polski, wyd. 1 Gdańsk 1993, wyd. 2 Warszawa 1995; Une histoire de la Pologne, Paryż 1993 i 2003; wyd. chorwackie, Kratka povijest Poljske, Zagrzeb 1999;
Lieux du pouvoir au Moyen Age et a l’époque moderne, textes réunis et présentées par M. Tymowski, Warszawa 1995; Historia Afryki do początku XIX w., pod red. naukową M. Tymowskiego, Wrocław 1996; Państwa Afryki przedkolonialnej, Wrocław 1999;
How did European Explorers Communicate with Indigenous African People in the 15th century, Africana Bulletin, 50 (2002), s. 43-74;
Use of the Term „Empire” in Historical Research on Africa: A comparative Approach, Africa-Zamani, No 11-17, 2003-2004, p. 18-26.