Andrzej Ajnenkiel is a Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 historian. He specializes in the political history of Poland and the history of Polish law, especially constitutional law

Constitutional law

Constitutional law is the body of law which defines the relationship of different entities within a state, namely, the executive, the legislature and the judiciary....

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From 1949 to 1954 Ajnenkiel studied law at the University of Warsaw

University of Warsaw

The University of Warsaw is the largest university in Poland and one of the most prestigious, ranked as best Polish university in 2010 and 2011...

. Since 1979 Ajnenkiel has been a professor at the Institute of History at the Polish Academy of Sciences

Polish Academy of Sciences

The Polish Academy of Sciences, headquartered in Warsaw, is one of two Polish institutions having the nature of an academy of sciences.-History:...

 in Warsaw. In 1991 he gained a professor degree, the highest academic degree in Poland, and later a habilitation

Habilitation

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. He has been a member and director of several historical societies, including the Polish Historical Society

Polish Historical Society (Poland)

Polish Historical Society is a Polish scientific society for historians. Founded in 1886 in Lwów by Ksawery Liske as a local society, in 1926 it became the Poland-wide organization dedicated to advancing the knowledge and studies in history of Poland. Since 1974 it organizes tournaments of...

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Works

• Historia ustroju Polski 1764-1939 (1969)
• Administracja w Polsce: zarys historyczny (Administration in Poland: Historical Overview) (1975)
• Parlamentaryzm II Rzeczypospolitej (1975)
• Od rządów ludowych do przewrotu majowego: zarys dziejów politycznych Polski 1918-1926 (1977)
• Polska po przewrocie majowym: zarys dziejów politycznych Polski 1926-1939 (Poland after the May Coup: Overview of the Political History of Poland 1926-1939) (1980)
• Polskie konstytucje (Polish Constitutions) (1991)
• Prezydenci Polski (Presidents of Poland) (1991)
• Konstytucje Polski w rozwoju dziejowym 1791-1997 (2001)

External links

• Profile at Nauka Polska portal