Jaros%C5%82aw Gowin


Jarosaw Adam Gowin is a Polish conservative politician and editor. Gowin served as Minister of Justice in the cabinet of Prime Minister Donald Tusk between 2011 to 2013, and is the current Minister of Science and Higher Education in the cabinet of Beata Szydo.

Gowin was born in Krakw to parents previously involved in the anticommunist Freedom and Independence movement, whose political discussions had an early affect on his upbringing. Later in life, Gowin was educated at Jagiellonian University and the University of Cambridge, where Gowin met and discussed Polish issues with the political scholar Zbigniew Peczyski. Upon returning to Poland, Gowin also came into contact with professor and personal friend Jzef Tischner, whose Catholic and political philosophy also highly influenced Gowins views. Gowin later became the founder and rector of Tischner European University in Krakw. Between 1994 to 2005, Gowin acted as editorinchief of the conservative Catholic magazine Znak.

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