Natalia Gąsiorowska-Grabowska (20 May 1881 – 30 November 1964) was a historian, president of the Polish Historical Society from 1953 until 1956.
Biography She came from empoverished gentry family. She was the daughter of Józef Gąsiorowski (1840–1886) and Weronika née Trawińska (1850–1932). Her siblings were: Zofia, Kazimiera, Wanda, Eugenia, Stanisław and .
She grew up in difficult material conditions, earning money by giving lessons and working in secret educational clubs. She graduated from Henryka Czarnocka's boarding school in Warsaw, where her teachers included and . She graduated from high school on Wilcza Street, where she obtained a certificate entitling her to homeschooling. Due to the boycott of government secondary schools in the former Kingdom of Poland, she passed her secondary school leaving examination externally in Riga.
She studied history in Heidelberg (1903–1904); history and economics at the École de Droit, Collège de France in Paris (1904–1905), where she attended lectures of Paul Aulard, André Gide and Charles Seignobos; and history in Zurich, Hamburg and Lviv (1905–1910). She obtained doctorate in 1910 from the Lviv University upon dissertation Wolność druku w Królestwie Kongresowym 1815–1830 supervised by Szymon Askenazy.
Since the 1920s, she taught at the Free Polish University. She obtained habilitation from the University of Warsaw in 1934. From 1945, she was a professor at the University of Warsaw. In 1950, she joined Polish United Workers' Party. She supervised more than twenty doctoral dissertations. Reprint of the original version published in:
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Review: .
Second edition: 1949.
Editions Five volumes. Editor of the first six folumes (1962–1967).
Articles and book chapters
Accolades Order of the Banner of Labour, 1st class (1949) Gold Cross of Merit (1951) Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1955) Honorary doctor of the University of Łódź (1961)
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