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Polish historian and politician

Wojciech Stefan Roszkowski OOB (born 20 June 1947 in Warsaw), sometimes known by the pseudonym Andrzej Albert, is an influential right wing Polish historian and politician. From 1990 to 1993, he served as vice rector of Warsaw School of Economics and from 1994 to 2000, he was the Kościuszko Chair of Polish Studies at the University of Virginia, USA. In 2004, Roszkowski won election to the European Parliament from the Law and Justice Party for a five year term.

Mariusz Turowski, a philosopher of historiography at University of Wrocław finds Roszkowski to be an influential exponent of the "patriotic school of Polish historiography" that gained status in post Communist Poland; his works posited a "clash of civilization" between conservative Christian ethics and multicultural democracies. For him, the downfall of Western Civilization originated in the Age of Enlightenment, once it negated the existence of God. Daniel Blatman, writing in 1997, noted Roszkowski to be among a new generation of post Communist historians who tried to portray Poles as the ideal victim of Nazism as well as communism, and exonerate them of all misdeeds — his monograph on post War history of Poland portrayed the Kielce pogrom as a handiwork of Communist agents, rather than Poles, despite lack of supportive evidence. In December 2023, Roszkowski was given the "Patriot of the Year" (Polish: Patriota Roku) award during the Patriot Day IX (Polish: IX Dzień Patrioty) event. Both the event and the award are organised in part by the same Biały Kruk (wydawnictwo) publishers that have published several of Roszkowski's books.

In August 2022, the Polish Ministry of Education and Science authorised Roszkowski's 1945–1979. Historia i teraźniejszość (1945–1979. History and the Present) textbook for use by liceum and technikum schools when teaching a newly introduced subject of the Historia i teraźniejszość; scholars and commentators criticised the book as essentially being a far right tract that, in addition to other claims, stigmatised IVF conceived children, equated feminism, liberalism, and other popular ideologies with Nazism, depicted neo Marxist influence as being a reason for the prominence of women's rights and gay rights movements, and was critical of the Black Lives Matter movement and of negative assessments of the Crusades. The book also referred to the controversial writings of Daniel Cohn Bendit on paedophilic acts and contained graphic images of human corpses. The issue was compounded by an alternative textbook being slow to receive official authorisation The book's supposed depiction of IVF conceived children drew negative commentary from Civic Platform leader Donald Tusk, while Polish Ombudsman Marcin Wiącek wrote a letter to education minister Przemysław Czarnek in which he reported the wider concerns of teachers and parents about the book's suitability for use in schools. A father of a child conceived through IVF announced his intention to sue Roszkowski; In the meantime, Roszkowski had written a follow up textbook covering the period between 1980 and 2015, with this newer book also receiving approval from the Ministry of Education and Science.