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ISSN 2543–7321
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Przyjęto: 12.01.2025
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On the occasion of his 70th birthday
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Dear Celebrant,
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your contribution to the development of science are invaluable achievements that will
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almost every issue, enriched its content and contributed to the formation of a high level
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Introduction

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
elementary school in 1969, he continued his education at the then Mechanical
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Military school and service in the Border Protection Forces
Upon graduating from high school (TME), he initially took exams to the
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Ireneusz Bieniecki was assigned to the retreat watchtower, which was com-
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I. Bieniecki’s interest in humanities subjects in the mid-1970s aroused in him
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  
ensigns and performed many service activities related to the training of soldiers
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I. Bieniecki, Noty biograczne wybranej kadry kierowniczej formacji ochraniających polską
granicę morską w latach 1945-1991, cz. 1
Noty biograczne wybranej kadry kierowniczej
formacji ochraniających polską granicę morską w latach 1945-1991, cz. 2, “Biuletyn
    
Noty biograczne wybranej kadry kierowniczej formacji ochraniających polska granicę
morska w latach 1945-1991, cz. 3     
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Kmdr Ppor. SG Retired Dr Ireneusz Bieniecki
and service in the protection of the maritime border, he undertook a master’s
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his studies at the Faculty of Humanities, he had contact with a group of lecturers
       
          -
-
       
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weekly Bandera, and later with the editors of other magazines. In their pages he
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service of soldiers in the protection of the maritime border.
In the autumn of 1981, he graduated from the Faculty of Humanities at the Uni-
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          
-
tensive professional work, he still intended to educate himself. To this end, be-
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Faculty of Humanities. At that time, the group of lecturers in political science
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  -
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eastern borderlands of the Second Republic was later developed by him in further
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the military press at the time, in 1988 he received the “Bronze Feather” award of
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bat training and popularisation of educational initiatives and experiences. He was
one of 22 nationwide authors awarded at the time, outside the full-time editorial
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In addition, in the elections to national councils on 19 June 1988, he was elect-
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

leaving the service of the MOSG he did not undertake professional work for




Scientic work at the Pomeranian Academy in Słupsk
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
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

2020 (with an interruption) he was employed as a full-time assistant professor

6
        

the collection of I. Bieniecki).
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Editors
    
      
-
sive positions he held were based on the organisational structures in place at that
time.
-


-
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tion and Business in Gdynia.
Since he had a wealth of academic achievements, just before he ended his
-
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2020.
Scientic achievements of Ireneusz Bieniecki – achievements in
scientic work before obtaining the doctoral degree

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interests were already focused on the problems of military history in the broadest
sense. During this period he published a number of popular science articles in



short publications. The summary of this area of research interest was a doctoral

dissertation was a thorough and pioneering study of the formation, organisation




        

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Kmdr Ppor. SG Retired Dr Ireneusz Bieniecki
Achievements in scientic work after receiving his doctoral degree in
history (in 1995)
  -
   
-
-


education.
-
al degree. The fourth area of interest was demonstrated in one of his publications
(book). Biographical studies, book reviews, conference reports and the system

undertaken by Dr. I. Bieniecki throughout the period. However the last area of

publications and which he successfully continues in his retirement.
-





specialised articles in short publications and journals published during the period

subject.

short publications and reviews. The culmination of this area of interest was the

second half of the twentieth century. Selected problems.” It was published by the



then published (together with Izabela Szkurlat) two volumes of sources devoted


numerous articles in this area.
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Editors
-
ish Republic, includes articles published in journals and short publications,
a detailed list of which is included in the list of scholarly achievements.
          -

formation), the Maritime Brigade of Border Ships and the Border Guard after
1991. This is represented by the largest number of publications dealing with
a variety of issues related to the broadly understood border problems, which
appeared in the form of articles in journals and short publications. The culmi-
nation of the work devoted to this research area was a book entitled “Border



           
a number of articles presenting, among others, the lives and activities of: kmdr.



      

-
-




Discussions and reviews of books are the next research area that can be
-
ens of discussions and reviews of various publications dealing with border
and naval war issues and were published in the pages of: “Military Histori-
-

        -

          
-

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Kmdr Ppor. SG Retired Dr Ireneusz Bieniecki
appeared in professional periodicals, for both civilian and uniformed forma-
tions.
Dr. Ireneusz Bieniecki’s eighth area of research concerns the system and

-
-
lished articles included in specialised publications.
The last (ninth) and at the same time new, in addition to the eight already
listed as basic areas of research interest of Dr. I. Bieniecki, was schooling

resulted in further studies in this area in the form of articles. To date, studies
have been published in this area concerning: the training of non-commissioned

-



the form of subsequent articles.
Since 2016, he has successfully collaborated with the journal “The study of
Security,” which has published six of his articles, the last two in co-authorship
with Dr. Izabela Szkurlat.
Characteristics of teaching achievements
The main teaching activity of I. Bieniecki focused from 2008 on teaching

During this time, he implemented classes in numerous subjects in the form of:
lectures, exercises, lectures and seminars, as well as consultations at the home
-


During the course of teaching he used his extensive academic and research
achievements as well as professional experience. In terms of content and form,
he tried to prepare and conduct his classes in such a way that they showed stu-
dents that the knowledge they would gain should prove useful in their future
          
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Editors
-


Since 2011, he has repeatedly been a member of committees conducting ex-

Research achievements

to disseminate research on border formations and border protection by publish-
ing books, publishing articles and presenting papers at national and international
conferences. By 2020, he was an active participant in dozens of conferences,
where he presented, in the form of papers, the results of his research.



Summary
In conclusion, it should be said that Dr. Ireneusz Bieniecki, during the period
of his professional activity from the mid-1970s to the present, a period of nearly


At the end of this article it is also appropriate to cite a very positive assessment
of the achievements of Dr. I. Bieniecki concerning his activities up to the begin-
ning of the 21st century. It was presented in one of Jan Tyminski’s articles in the
second decade of this century.
“(…) The second author mentioned, Ireneusz Bieniecki, has been working on

his research were evident in the form of the publication of numerous articles or
papers delivered at various conferences of which a great example was the scien-

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  Przegląd dorobku polskiej historiograi na temat Flotylli Rzecznej
Marynarki Wojennej w Pińsku z lat 1919–1939, “Biuletyn Historyczny Muzeum

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Kmdr Ppor. SG Retired Dr Ireneusz Bieniecki
It should also be mentioned that Dr. Bieniecki’s academic achievements in-
-



        -

-
      -
ical and historical department of the University of Rzeszow in Rzeszow “UR
      

      -

-
-

In addition, he has promoted dozens of bachelor’s and master’s degrees, and
with regard to 17 undergraduate theses, he was their reviewer.

achievements presented above, Dr. Bieniecki can be considered an outstanding

of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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