Maria Minakowska
{{short description|Polish historian}}
{{notability|Biography|date=January 2023}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2018}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Maria Jadwiga Minakowska
| image = Maria Jadwiga Minakowska 14.01.2025.jpg
| nationality = Polish
| education = PhD
| birth_name = Marek Jerzy Minakowski
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1972|06|13|df=yes}} Olsztyn, Poland
| alma_mater = Jagiellonian University
| occupation = Historian and genealogist
}}
Maria Jadwiga Minakowska (born June 13, 1972) is a Polish historian, genealogist and demographer{{Cite web |title=Sprawdził pół miliona nekrologów i już wie: przed nami półwiecze rządów kobiet |url=https://www.rp.pl/plus-minus/art40321681-demograf-czeka-nas-polwiecze-rzadow-pan |access-date=2024-11-16 |website=Rzeczpospolita |language=pl}} creator of the Polish genealogy database Wielka Genealogia Minakowskiej (en. Minakowska's Great Genealogy). In 2024 Minakowska announced her transition from male to female.{{Cite news |last=Gąsiorowski |first=Maciej |date=2024-11-13 |title=Jest w trakcie tranzycji. "Jako mężczyzna miałam tylko dwie pary spodni" |url=https://www.o2.pl/informacje/jest-w-trakcie-tranzycji-jako-mezczyzna-mialam-tylko-dwie-pary-spodni-7092127952866240a |access-date=2024-11-16 |work=o2.pl}}
Biography
Minakowska was born as Marek Jerzy Minakowski in Olsztyn into the family of Jerzy Minakowski and Wiesława, née Kraszewska. After graduating in philosophy from the Jagiellonian University, in 1998 she was awarded a PhD for a dissertation titled Formal logic prior to Aristotle,[https://archiwum.nauka-polska.pl/#/profile/research?id=2950&_k=6qqe3m] also in Kraków, under professor {{Interlanguage link|Ewa Żarnecka-Biały|pl}}.
In 2001, she founded the Polish genealogy website Wielka Genealogia Minakowskiej based on extant historical records and data submitted by correspondents. By 2022, the site contained details of around 1 million people with ties to Poland. Based on the historic Great Sejm of 1788-1792, by 2022 Minakowska had assembled details of over 130,000 descendants of the participants of partitioned Poland's outgoing parliament, some of whom have been scattered across the globe. Minakowska focuses on "mass genealogy" whose research results are published on line and in print editions.{{Cite web |date=2018-02-10 |title=Minakowski: Potomkowie chłopów żydowskich przodków nie mają. Za to elity były skoligacone [WYWIAD] |url=https://www.gazetaprawna.pl/wiadomosci/artykuly/1103290,marek-jerzy-minakowski-o-zwiazkach-polakow-z-zydami.html |access-date=2024-11-16 |website=www.gazetaprawna.pl |language=pl}}
Personal life
In 1994, being formally a male, she married archaeologist {{Interlanguage link|Anna Lebet-Minakowska|pl}} (born 1963) and had a daughter together. Minakowska’s second forename, Jadwiga, refers to Hedwig of Silesia, to whom she is distantly related. She anticipates an era when women, no longer as burdened by child-bearing or rearing, will assume their rightful place in society.{{cite web|author=Kawalec-Segond, Magdalena|title=Demograf: Czeka nas półwiecze rządów pań |date= 10 May 2024|url=https://www.rp.pl/plus-minus/art40321681-demograf-czeka-nas-polwiecze-rzadow-pan |website=Rzeczpospolita|lang=pl|access-date=2025-03-13}}
Award
In 2016, in recognition of her work, she received the Decoration of Honor Meritorious for Polish Culture.{{Cite web |title=Odznaczenia dla wybitnych literaturoznawców, historyków i animatorów kultury MKiDN – 2016 |url=http://www.mkidn.gov.pl/pages/posts/odznaczenia-dla-wybitnych-literaturoznawcow-historykow-i-animatorow-kultury-6637.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161005123231/http://www.mkidn.gov.pl/pages/posts/odznaczenia-dla-wybitnych-literaturoznawcow-historykow-i-animatorow-kultury-6637.php |archive-date=2016-10-05 |access-date=2018-05-31 |website=www.mkidn.gov.pl |language=pl}}
Publications
=In Polish=
- {{Interlanguage link|Adam Boniecki (heraldyk)|pl}}, Herbarz polski, Kraków 2005 (CD-ROM) {{ISBN|83-918058-1-6}}
- Ci wielcy Polacy to nasza rodzina, Kraków 2005 (CD-ROM), {{ISBN|83-918058-2-4}}
- Elita Rzeczypospolitej. Elita północnomazowiecka vol. I, 2011
- Elita Rzeczypospolitej. Elita wileńska vol. II, 2011
- Elita Rzeczypospolitej. Elita kresowa i smoleńska vol. III, 2011
- Elita Rzeczypospolitej. Elita krakowska senatorska vol. IV, 2012
- Elita poznańska senatorska z posłami ziemi wschowskiej: województwo poznańskie: rodziny senatorów oraz rodziny posłów ziemi wschowskiej, Kraków 2012
- Elita ruska: województwo ruskie z ziemią chełmską i województwem bełskim, Kraków 2013
- Elita łęczycka i rawska: województwa łęczyckie i rawskie, Kraków 2015
=In English=
- {{cite journal |last1=Minakowski |first1=M.J. |last2=Lebet-Minakowska |first2=Anna |date=2018 |title= Jewish Birth and Marriage Registrations in 19th-century Cracow and What They Reveal about the Dynamics of Ritual Marriage|url=http://cejsh.icm.edu.pl/cejsh/element/bwmeta1.element.desklight-7b331e4b-43ea-4063-bd8c-256786f42102/c/07_minakowski.m-lebet-minakowska.a.pdf |journal=Poland's Demographic Past 40 (2018) |volume= 40|issue= |pages= 171–196|doi=10.18276/pdp.2018.40-08 |access-date=2025-03-14}}
References
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External links
- [https://wielcy.pl/?hl=en Wielka Genealogia Minakowskiej]
- [https://wielcy.pl/nekrologia/ Nekrologia Minakowskiej]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy8aHJ0XLgw TEDxWarsaw – Marek Minakowski – 3/5/10] YouTube [English]
- [https://nauka-polska.pl/#/profile/scientist?id=99506 Marek Jerzy Minakowski at Ludzie nauki] nauka-polska.pl [Polish]
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Category:Jagiellonian University alumni
Category:20th-century Polish historians