Władysław Pobóg-Malinowski

[1] An officer of the Polish Army, he is best known as a historian and author of numerous books on modern history of Poland.

During his military service he also graduated from the Jagiellonian University (faculties of Polish studies and political science).

Pobóg-Malinowski retired from the army in 1931 (officially discharged with honours on 1 October 1932) and started working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Apart from the highly popular Political history of Poland, he also authored a monograph on Polish National Democrats in the period between 1887 and 1918, a monograph on the Bezdany raid, as well as started a monumental 6-volume biography of Józef Piłsudski (only two volumes were published).

After 1989 a yearly prize for "best historical debut work" was set up in his honour by the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Institute of National Remembrance.