Dr Edmund Jan OSMAŃCZYK
Birth date: 10.08.1913
Date of death: 04.10.1989
Award date: 02.10.1975
UŚ Senate resolution date: 27.06.1975
Application date: 20.06.1975
Applying unit: Council of the Faculty of Social Sciences
Doctor of political science, writer, journalist, columnist, foreign correspondent (serving the Potsdam Conference and the Nuremberg Trials) and diplomatic correspondent in the United Nations, the United States and Latin America. Politician, deputy of the Opole Silesia (1952–1961, 1969–1984), member of the Council of State of the Republic of Poland (1979–1980), Chair of the Polish Society of Authors and Composers (1983–1988), author of Encyclopedia of the United Nations and International Agreements. He received an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Wroclaw (1988).