Prof. Wojciech Ślusarczyk

Nicolaus Copernicus University and Leon Wyczółkowski District Museum, Poland

TOPIC – Jędrzej Śniadecki, About the physical education of children – time and work

Wojciech Ślusarczyk (Ph.D.) is a Polish historian. Graduate of the Faculty of Humanities at Casimir the Great University in Bydgoszcz. Head of the Department of the History of Pharmacy and Medicine at the Leon Wyczółkowski District Museum in Bydgoszcz; certified curator. Professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences at the Ludwik Rydygier Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. Specializes in the history of Polish pharmacy. Member of the Polish Pharmaceutical Society, the Polish Society for the History of Medical Sciences, the Bydgoszcz Scientific Society, the Association of Art Historians, the Association of Polish Museologists, the National Committee Poland in the International Council of Museums, and the Museum Council at the Jerzy Dunin-Borkowski Museum in Krośniewice. Co-founder of the "Bydgoszcz School of the History of Medical Sciences" Scientific Foundation. He earned his doctorate in the history of pharmacy in Kujawy and Gdańsk Pomerania in 2010 at Casimir the Great University in Bydgoszcz. He also completed his habilitation there in 2021, based on a monograph on the Trade Union of Pharmacist-Workers in the Republic of Poland (1919–1939). He is an organizer of interdisciplinary scientific conferences and editor of over 30 collective monographs on the intersection of the history of medicine and culture, including the series Cleanliness and Dirt on the history of hygiene and the series Healing in the Provinces. Past – Present. In 2024, he edited the collective work Childhood. Medical and Cultural Aspects Through History.