Life
Adam Daniel Rotfeld was born in Przemyślany near Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine). He survived the Holocaust in the Univ Lavra, a monastery of the Studite Brethren. Rotfeld was married to Barbara Sikorska-Rotfeld (died in 2006) and has one daughter, Alicja, born in 1971.
Rotfeld studied international law and diplomacy in Warsaw (1955–1960). PhD dissertation on the right of self-determination of people in modern international law at the Jagiellonian University, Kraków defended in 1969. Later, Habilitation on European Security in Statu Nascendi. He was appointed professor at the Warsaw University by the President of Poland in 2001.
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