DHC UWr for prof. Leszek Mrozewicz [PHOTO]

We would like to invite you to the ceremony of conferring the doctor honoris causa to Professor Leszek Mrozewicz – 9 June 2022, at 13:00 Aula Leopoldina, pl. Uniwersytecki 1 (the main building).

Leszek Mrozewicz (born 5 November 1951 in Myślibórz) – Professor Emeritus of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, historian and Latin epigraphist, European scholar, one of the most eminent contemporary Polish humanists. He studied history at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. His entire academic career was connected with this university, from his employment as an assistant in 1974 to full professorship. In 1979 he was awarded a PhD degree, in 1988 a postdoctoral degree and in 1996 a professor degree. In the years 1997-2012, he headed the Department of the History of Ancient Societies at the Institute of History of the Adam Mickiewicz University. In the years 2009-2020, he held the position of Director of the Institute of European Culture in Gniezno – an institution with the status of a department of the Adam Mickiewicz University. He has promoted 24 PhDs and over 200 MAs. Main areas of research: History of the early Roman Empire, especially the history of the provinces on the Danube and Rhine, Latin epigraphy and ancient prosopography. He is the author of 5 monographs and over 120 articles. He was co-editor of the journal Eos. He initiated important publishing series Xenia Posnaniensia in its various mutations and Fontes Historiae Antiquae. Since 1991 he has been a member of the Committee for the Study of Ancient Culture of the Polish Academy of Sciences, serving as its vice-chairman in the past. For many years a chairman of the Committee on Ancient History of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. For many years a member of the authorities of the Association Internationale d’Épigraphie Grecque et Latine. He was a guest lecturer at many of the most important European universities: Heidelberg, Mainz, Kiel, Augsburg, Erlangen, Hannover, Bern, Zurich, Freiburg, La Sapienza in Rome and Sorbonne in Paris.