Antoni Mączak

Antoni Maczak was born in Lwów in 1928 in a family with scientific and pedagogical traditions.

A student of Marian Małowist, in the first decades of his scientific activity he devoted himself to the study of economic history at the University of Warsaw.

He was a younger friend of the "princes" of Polish history: Aleksander Gieysztor, Stefan Kieniewicz, Tadeusz Manteuffel.

His 1980s book Governing and governed (Rządzący i Rządzeni) was considered one of the most important historical texts in contemporary Poland, breaking with the past Marxist look on history that until than dominated in historiography in the People's Republic of Poland.

In the English speaking world he is best known for his Travel in Early Modern Europe (Życie codzienne w podróżach po Europie XVI–XVII wieku) (by Antoni Maczak and Ursula Phillips).