A brief history of the Faculty

The Faculty was founded in 1975 when the Faculty of Philosophy and History was divided into two separate units: The Faculty of Social Sciences and the Faculty of History. At that time, the Faculty of History comprised of the following:

- the Institute of History - created in the 1960's. by merging the set of departments of history dating back to the foundation of the University in 1919;

- the Institute of Archaeology, now of Prehistory, which replaced the large Department of Archeology;

- the Institute of Art History;

- the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology.

- the Chair of Musicology - founded at Poznań University in 1922 and suspended in 1962, the Department of Musicology was re-established at the Faculty of History in 1974. Initially, it was part of the Institute of the History of Art only to be re-organized as an independent Chair of Musicology in 2001.

- in 2000, the Faculty was strengthened when the Institute of Eastern Studies was merged into it. The Institute was founded in 1990 and it has been conducting courses since 1995.