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Professor Jerzy Axer is a prominent scholar at the University of Warsaw, serving as Director of the College of Artes Liberales. He is also a full professor at the Aleksander Zelwerowicz Theatre Academy in Warsaw. Elected as a full member of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2022, Axer previously served as Dean of the Faculty of "Artes Liberales" at the University of Warsaw (2012-2016).
Professor Axer completed his Master's degree in Classical Philology at the University of Warsaw in 1969, earned his doctoral degree in 1972, completed his habilitation in 1976, and was awarded the title of Professor of Humanities in 1986.
His research spans classical philology, Latin literature, Neo-Latin studies, and European theatre. He focuses on Cicero's rhetoric, 16th-century diplomacy, textology of ancient and modern texts, and the classical tradition in Polish and European culture from the 16th to 20th centuries. Axer directs international programs for editing historical sources, including the Corpus epistularum Ioannis Dantisci.
His scholarly publications reveal a consistent focus on the intersection of classical traditions with European cultural and political history, demonstrating how classical rhetoric and literature influenced Polish intellectual history and broader European thought across centuries.
- Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1998)
- Golden Cross of the Order of Phoenix (Greece, 1996)
- Stefania Światłowska Award
Professor Axer has significantly shaped academic organization in Poland, founding the Center for Interdisciplinary Humanistic Research in 1991 and establishing the Collegium Artes Liberales in 2008. He has held leadership positions in numerous academic societies including the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (as president 1999-2001) and is a member of Academia Europaea since 1993.
