At the end of October, Dr Dariusz Adamczyk concluded his long-standing research work at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw. Since 2010, he has been working on various scientific projects, the results of which have been published in numerous publications. He talked about his latest project in a short film from the NIH series ‘Na temat’ (On the subject).

Dariusz Adamczyk studied history, political science, sociology and social psychology at the University of Silesia in Katowice and at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University in Hanover, where he obtained his doctorate in 1999. Between 2000 and 2008, he lectured there on the history of Eastern Europe and participated in the organisation of German-Polish projects and exhibitions. Between 2009 and 2010, he took up a junior professorship in Hanover. Between 2010 and 2015, he worked at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw, and in 2013 he obtained his habilitation at Leibniz University in Hanover. In 2013, he took up a visiting professorship at the University of Münster in Westphalia. From 2016 to 2019, he participated in a research project funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and carried out at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw. Since November 2019, he has been working as a researcher at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw.

Research interests

• Interactions between the formation of power and intercontinental and transcontinental money flows
• The slave trade
• Commercialisation and monetisation processes in the pre-modern era
• Global history in theory and practice
• Political and economic cultures in Poland from the 16th to the 20th century

Project: Coins as an attribute of unequal development and competing imitation in the Polish-German context in the years 1000–1300

Publications (selection)

Monographs

Monetarisierungsmomente, Kommerzialisierungszonen oder fiskalische Währungslandschaften? Edelmetalle, Silberverteilungsnetzwerke und Gesellschaften in Ostmitteleuropa (800–1200), (= DHIW Quellen und Studien Bd. 38), Wiesbaden 2020.

Silver and Power. Tribute and Long-Distance Trade and the Formation of the Piast State and Neighbouring States, Warsaw 2018.

Silver and Power. Long-distance Trade, Tribute and the Formation of Piast Rule from a North-Eastern European Perspective (800–1100), Wiesbaden 2014.

On Poland's Position in the Modern World System of the Early Modern Period, Hamburg 2001.