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Jan Jaroslawski (* 25. Mai 1925 in Łódź, Poland) was between 1972 and 1990 professor at the Universität Bremen in the department for the Theory of the Political Systems of Governing. The main focus of his scientific work was the sociology of the communist party.
Biography
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]Jan Jaroslawski experienced the end of the WW II during one of the Death marches (Holocaust) that accompanied the process of dissolution of the Nazi concentration camps, when the US army entered the Oberpfalz region of Bavaria in southern Germany.
After the war he returned back to his native town of Łódź in Poland, where he studied sciology. At the end of the 1940s' he married Halina Jaroslawski (* 20. Mai 1922; † 8. Juli 2016; who was between 1972 and 1987 professor for Political Economy at the Universität Bremen).
During the early after-war years he worked aufter his studies as a sociologist at the National Institut of Urbanistics in Warsaw (meanwhile National Institute of Architecture and Urbanistics). Later he worked as a member of he staff of editors of the political journal "Nowe Drogi" ("New Paths") until the whole family left Poland in the autumn 1968 and emigrated to then Western Germany. in 1972 he became professor at the new University of Bremen during it's founding phase.
He did his PhD thesis under Jürgen Habermas in Frankfurt am Main.
His political and scientific outlook devloped strongly informed by the continous discourse with the Polish philosopher Leszek Kołakowski with whom he was connected in a life-long friendship.
After his retirment (1990) he focused for five years on a "political diary" where he worked as a chronist and commentator of the period 1991-1995 that was rich with conflicts and events of great political importance for the whole world, which he commented on the basis of his experience of the WW II and the decades after, developing a unique perspective.
Works
[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]- Theorie der sozialistischen Revolution, Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg, 1973, (aus dem Polnischen übersetzt von Edda Werfel) ISBN 3-455-09091-5.
- Soziologie der kommunistischen Partei, Campus, Frankfurt/Main, 1978, (aus dem Polnischen übersetzt von Edda Werfel) ISBN 3-593-32309-5.
- Die Intellektuellen und der Sozialismus, Nomos, Baden-Baden, 1981, (aus dem Polnischen übersetzt von Edda Werfel) ISBN 3-7890-0690-4.
- Die marxistische Bewegung und die Polenfrage, Nomos, Baden-Baden, 1989, (aus dem Polnischen übersetzt von Robert Jaroslawski) ISBN 3-7890-1767-1
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