Bogdan Suchodolski
Bogdan Suchodolski was a Polish philosopher, historian of science and culture and teacher. He served as a senior marshal of the Sejm from 1985 to 1989.Biography
Bogdan Suchodolski was born in Sosnowiec, Poland, on 27 December 1903. He was a professor at the University of Lviv in 1938 and at the University of Warsaw from 1946 to 1970. He was also university director of the Institute of Pedagogical Sciences 1958–68.
He was a member of the Polish Academy of Learning since 1946, and later the Polish Academy of Sciences. From 1965 to 1970, he worked as deputy secretary of PAN, and from 1958 to 1974, he was chairman of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences.
On 20 December 1982 Suchodolski was appointed chairman of the National Council of Culture, and from 1985 to 1989 he served as senior marshall in Sejm.
He received an honorary degree from the University of Berlin, Lomonosov Moscow State University, University of Padova, the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences in E Pedagogical University of Opole and Silesian University.
Suchodolski authored papers dealing with education, history of Polish science and philosophy. He died in Konstancin-Jeziorna on 2 October 1992.
