Anna Radziwiłł 2162256 219979793 2008-06-17T19:02:03Z Piotrus 59002 {| border=1 align=right cellpadding=4 cellspacing=0 width=250 style="margin: 0 0 1em 1em; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;" | align="center" style="background:#efefef;" colspan="2" style="border-bottom:1px #aaa solid;" | <font size="+1">'''Anna Radziwiłł''' |- | align=center colspan=2 | {| border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 width=250 style="background:#f9f9f9;" |} |- |'''[[Szlachta|Noble Family]]''' || [[Radziwiłł]] |- |'''[[Polish heraldry|Coat of Arms]]''' || [[Trąby Coat of Arms|Trąby]] [[Image:Herb Radziwiłłów.PNG|120px]] |- |'''Parents''' || [[Krzysztof Mikołaj Radziwiłł]]<br>[[Zofia Popiel]] |- |'''Consorts'''|| ? |- |'''Children''' || ? |- |'''Date of Birth''' || [[April 20]], [[1939]] |- |'''Place of Birth''' || [[Sichów]] |- |'''Date of Death''' || - |- |'''Place of Death''' || - |} '''Anna Radziwiłł''' (born [[1939]]) is a [[Poland|Polish]] historian, pedagogist, and politician. Former member of the [[Solidarity]] movement and Minister of Education of [[Poland]]. She was born [[April 20]], [[1939]], in the village of Sichów as daughter of ''Red Prince'' [[Krzysztof Mikołaj Radziwiłł]]. In [[1961]] she graduated from the faculty of history of the [[Warsaw University]]. Immediately after graduation she started to work as a [[liceum|school]] teacher. In [[1967]] she completed her studies and obtained the title of [[Doctorate|doctor]] of humanistic sciences for her study on ''Educational ideology of the [[Sanacja]] and its reflection in education policies of 1926-1939''. Her work was to be published the following year by the [[PWN]], but in [[1968]], after the anti-[[intelligentsia]] campaign of the communist regime, it was banned by the [[censorship]]. She continued to work as a teacher of history and Polish language in various Warsaw-based schools. At the same time she published a number of studies, mostly on history of education in Poland after 1945. Most of them were banned and were published underground, outside of the official system. In 1970's she also started cooperation with various undergrounds opposition newspapers, including [[Więź]], [[Znak (magazine)|Znak]] and [[Res Publica]]. After the legalization of the [[Solidarity]] movement, Anna Radziwiłł became one of its advisors. As such, she took part in various conferences between the communist authorities and the democratic opposition. The exact effect of these consultations was a reform of history education in Polish schools. For that she was awarded with the Golden Cross of Merit in [[1981]]. However, the reform was finally halted by the introduction of the [[Martial law in Poland]]. In the underground she started her work on various handbooks to Polish 20th century history. Some of them were published by the [[bibuła|underground printing presses]] and were used by, among others, the so-called [[Flying University]]. After the democratic reforms of [[1989]] and the ousting of the communist authoities, Anna Radziwiłł was elected on [[June 6]] to the [[Senate of Poland]]. She also assumed the post of a sub-secretary of state in the ministry of education in [[Tadeusz Mazowiecki]]'s government. In [[1992]] she resigned her post and returned to university studies. Together with [[Wojciech Roszkowski]] she prepared a set of history handbooks for primary schools and [[lyceum|lycea]] (published after [[1994]]), which became the most widely-used history handbooks for the period between [[1789]] and [[1990]] in Poland. In [[1998]] for her merits she was awarded with Commanders' Cross of the [[Polonia Restituta]] medal. In [[1999]], during the government of the [[Unia Wolności]]-[[Solidarity Electoral Action|AWS]] coalition, Anna Radziwiłł returned to politics as an advisor to the minister of education. At the same time she became the deputy secretary of the [[Stefan Batory Foundation]]. Among her most notable duties was preparation of the reform of education in Poland. In [[2001]] she gave up that post and retired. However, in [[2004]] minister [[Mirosław Sawicki]] proposed her as the new deputy minister of education of Poland. Prime Minister of Poland [[Marek Belka]] accepted her candidature and Anna Radziwiłł returned to public life. {{unreferenced|date=November 2006}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Radziwill, Anna}} [[Category:1939 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Polish academics]] [[Category:Polish historians]] [[Category:Polish politicians]] [[Category:Polish nobility]] [[Category:Radziwiłł family|Anna Radziwill]] [[Category:Recipients of Polonia Restituta]] [[lt:Ana Marija Radvilaitė]] [[pl:Anna Radziwiłł]]