Jerzy Szacki

Jerzy Szacki
Born
Jerzy Ryszard Szacki

6 February 1929
Died25 October 2016(2016-10-25) (aged 87)
Alma materUniversity of Warsaw
Scientific career
InstitutionsCollège de France, University of Minnesota, Oxford University, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen

Jerzy Ryszard Szacki (6 February 1929 – 25 October 2016) was a Polish sociologist and historian of ideas. From 1973 he was a professor at the University of Warsaw, and in 1991 became a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is considered one of the most prominent representatives of the Warsaw School of the History of Ideas.