Oscar Halecki was a Polish historian, social and Catholic activist.
Dr. Oskar Halecki, a leading historian in Poland until the onset of World War II, died in White Plains Hospital. He was 82 years old and lived at 35 Barker Avenue, White Plains.
Dr. Halecki, an expert on the Polish delegation at the Paris Peace Conference after World War I, was emeritus professor at Fordham University and honorary president of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America. He had been its first executive director in 1942 and its president from 1952 to 1964.
Born in Vienna, Dr. Halecki received his doctorate from the University of Cracow in 1913 and lectured there on Polish history from 1916 to 1918. After Poland's liberation, he became professor of Eastern European history at the University of Warsaw from 1919 to 1939.
From 1922 to 1924, Dr. Halecki was secretary of the Committee on Intellectual Cooperation of the League of Nations. A prominent Roman Catholic layman with several Papal honors, he was a delegate to the Eucharistic Congress in Chicago in 1926.
Dr. Halecki came to the United States in 1938 as visiting professor under the Kosciusko Foundation. When Poland was occupied in 1939, he went to France to organize and preside over the Polish University in Exile in Paris.
When France was overrun in 1940, Dr. Halecki returned here and taught at Vassar College and then at Fordham from 1944 to 1961. He was also associated with the University of Montreal and held an adjunct professorship at Columbia University.
Since retiring in 1961, Dr. Halecki had lectured at Loyola University in Rome, the University of California at Los Angeles and at Good Counsel Col ege.
His books have been published in Polish, German, French and English. In "Limits and Divisions of European History," he argued that East Central Europe, including Poland, was no less European than Western Europe. He was co-editor of the Cambridge History of Poland.
Dr. Halecki had served on the editorial boards of the Slavic Review, Polish Review and Journal of Central European Affairs. He was president in 1960 of the American Catholic Historical Association. He had held a Fulbright research schol arship in Italy in 1952–53 and a Guggenheim research fellowship in 1957–58.
His wife, the former Helen de Sulima‐Szarlowska, died in 1964.
A Mass of the Resurrection will be offered at 11 A.M. on Thursday in St. John's Roman Catholic Church in White Plains.
Dr. Oskar Halecki, a leading historian in Poland until the onset of World War II, died in White Plains Hospital. He was 82 years old and lived at 35 Barker Avenue, White Plains.
Dr. Halecki, an expert on the Polish delegation at the Paris Peace Conference after World War I, was emeritus professor at Fordham University and honorary president of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America. He had been its first executive director in 1942 and its president from 1952 to 1964.
Born in Vienna, Dr. Halecki received his doctorate from the University of Cracow in 1913 and lectured there on Polish history from 1916 to 1918. After Poland's liberation, he became professor of Eastern European history at the University of Warsaw from 1919 to 1939.
From 1922 to 1924, Dr. Halecki was secretary of the Committee on Intellectual Cooperation of the League of Nations. A prominent Roman Catholic layman with several Papal honors, he was a delegate to the Eucharistic Congress in Chicago in 1926.
Dr. Halecki came to the United States in 1938 as visiting professor under the Kosciusko Foundation. When Poland was occupied in 1939, he went to France to organize and preside over the Polish University in Exile in Paris.
When France was overrun in 1940, Dr. Halecki returned here and taught at Vassar College and then at Fordham from 1944 to 1961. He was also associated with the University of Montreal and held an adjunct professorship at Columbia University.
Since retiring in 1961, Dr. Halecki had lectured at Loyola University in Rome, the University of California at Los Angeles and at Good Counsel Col ege.
His books have been published in Polish, German, French and English. In "Limits and Divisions of European History," he argued that East Central Europe, including Poland, was no less European than Western Europe. He was co-editor of the Cambridge History of Poland.
Dr. Halecki had served on the editorial boards of the Slavic Review, Polish Review and Journal of Central European Affairs. He was president in 1960 of the American Catholic Historical Association. He had held a Fulbright research schol arship in Italy in 1952–53 and a Guggenheim research fellowship in 1957–58.
His wife, the former Helen de Sulima‐Szarlowska, died in 1964.
A Mass of the Resurrection will be offered at 11 A.M. on Thursday in St. John's Roman Catholic Church in White Plains.
Oscar Halecki was a Polish historian, social and Catholic activist.
Dr. Oskar Halecki, a leading historian in Poland until the onset of World War II, died in White Plains Hospital. He was 82 years old and lived at 35 Barker Avenue, White Plains.
Dr. Halecki, an expert on the Polish delegation at the Paris Peace Conference after World War I, was emeritus professor at Fordham University and honorary president of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America. He had been its first executive director in 1942 and its president from 1952 to 1964.
Born in Vienna, Dr. Halecki received his doctorate from the University of Cracow in 1913 and lectured there on Polish history from 1916 to 1918. After Poland's liberation, he became professor of Eastern European history at the University of Warsaw from 1919 to 1939.
From 1922 to 1924, Dr. Halecki was secretary of the Committee on Intellectual Cooperation of the League of Nations. A prominent Roman Catholic layman with several Papal honors, he was a delegate to the Eucharistic Congress in Chicago in 1926.
Dr. Halecki came to the United States in 1938 as visiting professor under the Kosciusko Foundation. When Poland was occupied in 1939, he went to France to organize and preside over the Polish University in Exile in Paris.
When France was overrun in 1940, Dr. Halecki returned here and taught at Vassar College and then at Fordham from 1944 to 1961. He was also associated with the University of Montreal and held an adjunct professorship at Columbia University.
Since retiring in 1961, Dr. Halecki had lectured at Loyola University in Rome, the University of California at Los Angeles and at Good Counsel Col ege.
His books have been published in Polish, German, French and English. In "Limits and Divisions of European History," he argued that East Central Europe, including Poland, was no less European than Western Europe. He was co-editor of the Cambridge History of Poland.
Dr. Halecki had served on the editorial boards of the Slavic Review, Polish Review and Journal of Central European Affairs. He was president in 1960 of the American Catholic Historical Association. He had held a Fulbright research schol arship in Italy in 1952–53 and a Guggenheim research fellowship in 1957–58.
His wife, the former Helen de Sulima‐Szarlowska, died in 1964.
A Mass of the Resurrection will be offered at 11 A.M. on Thursday in St. John's Roman Catholic Church in White Plains.
Dr. Oskar Halecki, a leading historian in Poland until the onset of World War II, died in White Plains Hospital. He was 82 years old and lived at 35 Barker Avenue, White Plains.
Dr. Halecki, an expert on the Polish delegation at the Paris Peace Conference after World War I, was emeritus professor at Fordham University and honorary president of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America. He had been its first executive director in 1942 and its president from 1952 to 1964.
Born in Vienna, Dr. Halecki received his doctorate from the University of Cracow in 1913 and lectured there on Polish history from 1916 to 1918. After Poland's liberation, he became professor of Eastern European history at the University of Warsaw from 1919 to 1939.
From 1922 to 1924, Dr. Halecki was secretary of the Committee on Intellectual Cooperation of the League of Nations. A prominent Roman Catholic layman with several Papal honors, he was a delegate to the Eucharistic Congress in Chicago in 1926.
Dr. Halecki came to the United States in 1938 as visiting professor under the Kosciusko Foundation. When Poland was occupied in 1939, he went to France to organize and preside over the Polish University in Exile in Paris.
When France was overrun in 1940, Dr. Halecki returned here and taught at Vassar College and then at Fordham from 1944 to 1961. He was also associated with the University of Montreal and held an adjunct professorship at Columbia University.
Since retiring in 1961, Dr. Halecki had lectured at Loyola University in Rome, the University of California at Los Angeles and at Good Counsel Col ege.
His books have been published in Polish, German, French and English. In "Limits and Divisions of European History," he argued that East Central Europe, including Poland, was no less European than Western Europe. He was co-editor of the Cambridge History of Poland.
Dr. Halecki had served on the editorial boards of the Slavic Review, Polish Review and Journal of Central European Affairs. He was president in 1960 of the American Catholic Historical Association. He had held a Fulbright research schol arship in Italy in 1952–53 and a Guggenheim research fellowship in 1957–58.
His wife, the former Helen de Sulima‐Szarlowska, died in 1964.
A Mass of the Resurrection will be offered at 11 A.M. on Thursday in St. John's Roman Catholic Church in White Plains.
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