Category:Jerzy Snopek

Jerzy Snopek 

Polish historian
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Name in native language	Jerzy Snopek
Date of birth	3 August 1952 Wrząca, Pomeranian Voivodeship
Country of citizenship	Poland
Educated at	Polish Academy of Sciences University of Warsaw (magister degree, Polish studies)
Occupation	historian university teacher translator
Employer	Warszawska Wyższa Szkoła Humanistyczna im. Bolesława Prusa (2002–2012) Polish Academy of Sciences (1995–2006) Eötvös Loránd University (1985–1990)
Position held	ambassador of Poland to Hungary (2016–2022)
Native language	Polish
Spouse	Márta Gedeon
Award received	Officer's Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit Pál Teleki Merit Medal (Gábor Bethlen Foundation) (2018)
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Jerzy Snopek, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Poland in Hungary. Jerzy Snopek is a historian of literature and culture, and professor at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 1995-2006, he served for three terms as the Academy’s research director, where he established a Team of European Literary Studies. In 1985-1990, he lectured Polish literature at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. In 1991-1997 he was secretary of the Hungarian Institute of Culture. He was a visiting professor at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Piliscsaba near Budapest. Between 2003 and 2013 he was the Bolesław Prus Warsaw School of Humanities’ professor, dean, and then vice president. From Autumn 2016, he serves as the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Hungary. Jerzy Snopek is the author of numerous books on Polish and Hungarian culture of different periods. He has translated over 20 books of Hungarian poetry and prose, and the Hungarian Constitution. Snopek has been awarded the Officer´s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary and the Gold Cross of the President of the Republic of Hungary.