
Born 1974 in Wroclaw, Poland; married, two children.
MA in history from University of Wroclaw - 1999;
PhD in history from University of Wroclaw - 2003;
Habilitation from Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg in 2015 (veniam legendi: Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte/Economic and social history)
Employment history:
2002-2004: lecturer, Institute of History, University of Wroclaw
2004-2006: assistant professor, Institute of History, Pomeranian High School of Pedagogics,
Slupsk (Poland)
2006-2008: Marie Curie Intra-European Research Fellow, Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, Dept. of Geography, University of Cambridge, UK
2008-2014: Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research,
Rostock, Germany
2014-2017: Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale),
Germany
2018- POLONEZ Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Fellow, IH UW
Selected institutional responsibilities and commissions of trust:
- Honorary Research Associate, The Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, University of Regensburg
– member of the European Association for Population Studies (EAPS) (major convener for the History panel 2018)
- Board Member of the International Commission for Historical Demography (EHESS, Paris)
- Board Member of the European Society of Historical Demography (NL)
- Editorial Board member of Romanian Journal of Population Studies; Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski; Demografia, English Edition (Demographic Research Institute of Hungarian Central Statistical Office)
- Board Member of the Mosaic project (www.censusmosaic.org)
- member of the Aleksander-Brückner-Zentrum für Polenstudien, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle, Germany
- Scientific Advisory Board of Historical Life Course Studies (EHPS-Net’ http://www.ehps-net.eu/journal)
Scholarships and courses:
2017 Visiting Professorship, the Graduate School for East- and Southeast European Studies at the University Regensburg
2006-2008 Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship (EIF/ FP6-2002-MOBILITY-5), University of Cambridge, UK
2006 KOLUMB Fellowship from the Polish Science Foundation (Fundacja na Rzecz nauki Polskiej), University of Michigan (US)
2006 Summer Course “Longitudinal Analysis of Historical Demographic Data”, / Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research, University of Michigan (US)
2005 Visiting scholar, The Center for Population Studies, University of Umea, Sweden
2004 Visiting scholar (Gastdozent), Department of Economic History, University of Münster, Germany
2004-05 Visiting scholarship, Max Planck Institute for History, Göttingen, Germany
Peer-reviewed international conferences:
Canadian Population Society (CA): 2010;
British Society for Population Studies (UK): 2012, 2007;
Economic History Society Annual Conference (UK): 2009, 2007;
European Congress on World and Global History (EU): 2011;
European Social Science History Conference (EU): 2016, 2014, 2012, 2010, 2008, 2006, 2004;
European Population Conference (EU): 2014, 2012, 2010;
European Society of Historical Demography (EU): 2014; 2016
European Rural History Organisation (EU): 2016
Population Association of America (US): 2010;
International Congress of Historical Sciences (EU): 2010;
Social Science History Association Annual Conferences (US): 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009.
Monographs:
(2015) Rethinking East-central Europe: family systems and co-residence in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Peter Lang: Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 1066 pp; 2 vols. (https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/11044)
Reviews:
R. Frost, The Slavic Review (2017), https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/slavic-review/article/rethinking-eastcentral-europe-family-systems-and-coresidence-in-the-polishlithuanian-commonwealth-by-mikolaj-szoltysek-population-family-and-society-vol-211-bern-peter-lang-2015-xxx-1062-pp-bibliography-index-tables-maps-17395-hard-bound/6C05CDAC111A9C76BFD749BC9F7B2ECF
P.P. Viazzo, Popolazione e Storia (2017), https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319525875_Review_of_Rethinking_East-Central_Europe_by_PP_Viazzo_Popolazione_e_Storia
A. Plakans, Journal of Family History (2017), http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0363199016680224?journalCode=jfha
O. Sorescu-Iudean, Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas (2018), https://www.dokumente.ios-regensburg.de/JGO/Rez/Sorescu-Iudean_Szoltysek_Rethinking_East-Central_Europe.html
Journal articles/book chapters:
(2017). Age heaping patterns in Mosaic data. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, https://doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2017.1393359
(2017) The Patriarchy Index: A New Measure of Gender and Generational Inequalities in the Past. Cross-Cultural Research 51 (3): 228 – 262 [first author, with Klüsener, S., Poniat, R., and S. Gruber]
(2017) “Girl Power” in Eastern Europe? The human capital development of Central-Eastern and Eastern Europe in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries and its determinants. European Review of Economic History 21 (1): 29-63 (with J. Baten and M. Campestrini)
(2016) Historical family systems and European inequalities: a way forward for the future. In Koen Matthijs, Saskia Hin, Jan Kok & Hideko Matsuo (Eds.), The future of historical demography: Upside down and inside out, Publisher: ACCO Uitgeverij, pp.59-52.
(2016) A stem-family society without the stem family ideology? The case of eighteenth-century Poland, The History of the Family,21 (4), 502-530.
(2016) De invloed van demografi sche parameters op de huishoudsamenstelling in het achttiende-eeuwse Oost-Europa. Wat kunnen we leren door data van historische volkstellingen en uitkomsten van microsimulaties te vergelijken? In Puschmann, P., Paping, R. & Matthijs, K. (Eds.), Familie en levenskansen in het verleden. Jaarboek. Leuven: Acco, 153-182.
(2016) Mosaic: recovering surviving census records and reconstructing the familial history of Europe. The History of the Family, 21(1), 38-60 (first author, with S. Gruber).
(2016) The patriarchy index: a comparative study of power relations across historical Europe. The History of the Family, 21(2), 133-174 (with S. Gruber).
(2015) Fertilität und Familienformationen in historischer Perspektive. In: Niephaus, Y. et al.(Eds.), Handbuch Bevölkerungssoziologie, pp. 179-200. Springer: Wiesb (with G. Fertig).
(2015). Residence patterns and demographic constraints: The case of historical Eastern Europe; Journal of Family History 40 (3), 323-350.
(2015). Households and family systems in early modern Europe. In book: The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750, Volume I: Peoples and Place., Chapter:, Publisher: Oxford: Oxford University Press., Editors: H. Scott, pp.313-341.
(2015) Residence patterns and the human-ecological setting in historical Eastern Europe: a challenge of compositional (re)analysis. In P. Kreager, B. Winney, S. Ulijaszek, C. Capelli (eds.), Population in the human sciences: concepts, models, evidence. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 431-468.
(2014). Living arrangements of the elderly in two Eastern European joint-family societies: Poland-Lithuania around 1800 and Albania in 1918, The Hungarian Historical Review, 3(1), 101-140 [first author, with S. Gruber].
(2014) Spatial variation in household structure in 19th-century Germany, Population-E, 69 (1), 55-80 (with Gruber, S., Klüsener, S., and Goldstein, J. R).
(2014). Family systems and welfare provision in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: discrepancies and similarities, Białoruskie Zeszyty Historyczne / Беларускі гістарычны зборнікm 42, 25-57.
(2012). Spatial construction of European family and household systems: promising path or blind alley? An Eastern European perspective. Continuity and Change 27(1), 11-52.
(2011). ‘Living arrangements and household formation in an industrializing urban setting: Rostock 1867-1900’, Annales de démographie historique, 122(2), 233-269. [first author, with Gruber S., Zuber-Goldstein B., Scholz R.]
(2009). Historical family systems and the great European divide: the invention of the Slavic East. Demográfia (English edition) 52(5): 5-47. [first author, with B. Zuber-Goldstein].
(2009). ‘Life cycle service and family systems in the rural countryside: a lesson from historical East-Central Europe’, Annales de Démographie Historique, 1, 53-94.
(2009). Female headship, household position, and gendered well-being in peasant societies: evidence from the territories of the historical Kingdom of Poland (18th century)’. In M. Durães, A. Fauve-Chamoux, L. Ferrer, and J. Kok (eds), The transmission of well-being: gendered marriage strategies and inheritance systems in Europe (17th-20th centuries), pp. 447-486. Bern: Peter Lang.
(2008). Three kinds of preindustrial household formation system in historical Eastern Europe: A challenge to spatial patterns of the European family’, The History of the Family 13(3), 223-257.
(2008). Rethinking Eastern Europe: household formation patterns in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and European family systems’, Continuity and Change, 23, 389-427.
(2007). Central European household and family systems, and the “Hajnal-Mitterauer” line: the parish of Bujakow (18th-19th centuries)’, The History of the Family, 1, 19-42.
Long-distance running; I am currently preparing for the 6th Wrocław Night Half-marathon. A fan of hiking around Germany. I like to return to the Mani Peninsula on the Peloponnese.