Miron Wolny
ORCID ID http://www.uwm.edu.pl
Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie
Polska

Miron Wolny is a historian of antiquity, born into an educated family in Olsztyn. He graduated in history from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (2001), took his doctorate from the University of Gdańsk (2005) and was then employed in the position of Assistant Professor at the Institute of History and International Relations, University of Warmia and Mazury, where he obtained his habilitation in 2015. As a De Brzezie Lanckoroński Foundation Scholar, he conducted research at scientific institutions in Rome (2007), to where he returned on UWM scholarships (2008, 2011). He was a two-time winner of the prestigious Scholarship for an Outstanding Young Researcher (2011), awarded twice by the President of UWM for his outstanding scientific and teaching achievements. He has published two extensive scientific monographs and edited and co-edited five monographs and published several dozen scientific papers. He was chairman of the organizing committee of a scientific conference on “Paradoxology in Antiquity and the Middle Ages” (2016), a member of the Polish Society for Ancient Studies, the International Society for Knowledge Organization, a scientific consultant to the journal Echa Przeszłości (Echoes of the Past) and a member of the editorial board of the journal Meritum (Essence). The research interests of Dr. Habil. M. Wolny concern the history of Carthage and the Hellenistic states. Within these problems, he particularly deals with the figures of Pyrrhus and Hannibal. Moreover, the problems with which Wolny deals as a researcher include the history of law and the history of medicine.