Professor’s Marek Koter scientific way from cartography to political geography

Abstract

Professor Koter has raised a new generation of scholars: he was thesis promoter of five doctoral students (three in political geography, one in historical geography, one in social geography). Increase in staff allowed for subdivision of the department: creation of the Division of Political Geography as a separate unit led Professor Koter to concentrate on historical geography. It can be asserted that during the last 25 years of his professional life, Professor Koter succeeded in his efforts to establish the Polish school of political geography in Łódź. Boasting international recognition, this academic centre stimulates development of this discipline in Poland and produces new generations of political geographers. It can be regarded as a continuation of splendid traditions of Polish political geography steming from the Lviv school founded in the interwar period.