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Józef Madeja (1899-1975)

2017

Józef Madeja was born on 5 April 1899 in Opole. He attended and completed a primary school and a Realschule in Opole as well as the teachers’ college in Pyskowice, a small town near Gliwice. He began his first professional work as a teacher at a German primary school near Opole in 1919. Following the split of Upper Silesia, Józef Madeja, who declared himself Polish, moved to Katowice in 1921. He worked as a teacher at primary schools situated in the Polish part of Upper Silesia.He studied pedagogy at the Jagiellonian University, where he wrote his doctoral dissertation in the fi eld of psychology. He also worked as a teacher in teachers’ seminaries and at the Pedagogical Institute in Katowi…