B. 1956; MA 1979 University of Warsaw; PhD 1984, post-doctoral degree (habilitacja) 1991 (both at UW); professor since 1996, full professor since 2004. Has worked at the IH UW since 1979.
1991 - 1994 Chancellory of Sejm (parliament) (1991/92: Office for Interparliamentary Relations, director; 1992-1994: Director General)
1996 - present Professor for History at the University of Warsaw
1997 - 2007 Polish Chairman of Polish-German Textbook Commission
1999 - 2002 Prorector of University of Warsaw
2003 - present editor in chief of "Polskie Dokumenty Dyplomatyczne", published by the Polish Institute of International Affairs (until 2016 – 22 volumes)
2010 – present Co-director of Imre Kertész Kolleg, Jena
Academic Councils (selection):
(emerging) House of European History, Brussels, Chairman
Haus der Geschichte, Bonn
(emerging) Museum of the Second World War, Gdańsk
Polish-German Foundation for Scientific Cooperation, Vice-Chairman
Editorial boards:
2000-2010 "Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung"
2003-2009 "Journal of Modern European History"
2006-2012 "Polski Przegląd Dyplomatyczny"
Awards:Verdienstkreuz 1. Klasse des Verdienstordens der Bundespreublik Deutschland (2002), Herder Preis (2006), Carl von Ossietzky Preis (2010), Medal Komisji Edukacji Narodowej (2012), Krzyż Oficerski Orderu Odrodzenia Polski (2014), Nagroda Prezesa Rady Ministrów (2015).
Web presence:
http://www.ihuw.pl/instytut/o-instytucie/pracownicy/prof-dr-hab-wlodzimi...
http://www.imre-kertesz-kolleg.uni-jena.de
- Der Blick von außen: Haben die Deutschen die Verantwortung für ihre NS-Vergangenheit übernommen? Ein Kommentar, in: München und der Nationalsozialismus. Katalog des NS-Dokumentationszentrums München, München 2015, pp. 569-576; English translation: The View from Outside: Have the Germans Taken Responsibility for their Nazi Past? A Commentary, in: Munich and National Socialism. Catalogue of the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism, Munich 2015, pp. 561-568
- Krieg im Museum. Präsentationen des Zweiten Weltkriegs in Museeen und Gedenkstätten des östlichen Europa, ed. with Katerina Makhotina et al., München 2015
- (with Maciej Górny), Nowsze badania nad I Wojną Światową w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej i Południowo-Wschodniej (wybrane zagadnienia (Recent research on First World War in Central-Eastern and Southern-Eastern Europe (selected issues), "Kwartalnik Historyczny" CXXII, 2015, s. 131-152
- (with Maciej Górny), Nasza Wojna. Tom I: Imperia, 1912-1916 (Our War. Part I: Empires, 1912-1916), Warszawa 2014
- Mastery and Lost Illusions. Space and Time in the Modernization of Eastern and Central Europe, ed. with Stanislav Holubec and Joachim von Puttkamer, München 2014
- Legacies of Violence. Eastern Europe’s First World War, ed. with Jochen Böhler and Joachim von Puttkamer, München 2014
- Europa und sein Osten. Geschichtskulturelle Herausforderungen, ed. with Joachim von Puttkamer, München 2012
- Geschichte Polens im 20. Jahrhundert, München 2010
- Hidden Paths within Socialism, "Journal of Modern European History" 8, 2010,.3, ed. with Jerzy Kochanowski and Joachim von Puttkamer
- Polish Documents on Foreign Policy, 24 October 1938 - 30 September 1939, ed. with Sławomir Dębski, Warsaw 2009
- Der Warschauer Aufstand 1944, Frankfurt M. 2001, 2004; English translation: The Warsaw Uprising 1944, The University of Wisconsin Press 2006.