IN MEMORIAM OF PROFESSOR ANTONI KUKLIŃSKI

Professor Kukliński was a major figure in our field with an important legacy and constant commitment to international engagement. I never forget that he made it possible for us to meet for the first time and enabled my first visit to Poland and Central Europe.
John Bachtler
European Policies Research Centre, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

I was very sorry to hear the sad news of Antoni Kuklinski’s passing. He was one of the instrumental supporters in the establishment of the RSA Polish Division and we were very grateful for his generous support.
Sally Hardy
Chief Executive of the Regional Studies Association

More than a scholar, Prof. Kuklinski was a teacher and a thinker whose contributions have influenced all of those who have worked on the fields he cultivated. He was also a leader and a caring boss who, as you will remember, used to refer to his team of young collaborators as his “crew”.
Juan J. Palacios
University of Guadalajara, Mexico

I remember my first contact with his works trough Prof. Lasuen at the UAM, when I was doing the research for the Phd degree. And his approach stimulted me always very much.
Antonio Vazquez Barquero
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

Prof. Antoni Kuklinski was a great man who had an exceptional power both in his arguments and in his personal character. He had a crucial impact on my personal life. I met him first time in a conference organised by Grzegorz, near Warsaw, around 1990. I was a young researcher thinking about my place in the fast changing world around me. Listening his speech, talking with him, I decided to find my place in a research community who was engaged in social and economic betterment of my country.
Karoly Fazekas
Centre for Economic and Regional Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

It was a privilege to work with Prof. Kukliński.
Lubomir Faltan
Institute for Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences

He was one of the most intelectually vivid people I have ever met. 
Piotr Dutkiewicz
Centre for Governance and Public Management, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

I remember Pofessor Kuklinski in the 1990s as that time great personality and authority of Polish geography - the one who initiated, inspired and directed in the 1990s and thereafter our cooperative research projects.
Michal Illner
Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences

He was a visionary, futurist, strategist, who had started to speak and publish about the Knowledge-based Economy long before it became popular in Poland. He was the first to show how important it is for Poland to shift from the agriculture and industry towards innovation-led growth and development. It took about 20 years before politicians, policymakers and public opinion followed his ideas about a nation being able to compete not on the basis of the low labor costs, but on the basis of innovative economy.
Krzysztof Piech
Warsaw School of Economics


He was the key for our Sorrento Meeting, when he spoke about the triple Mezzogiorno in Europe and his theory about the development of! His Gordian knots and Alexandrian solutions conquered our imagination and stimulated our research that continue to this day!
Antonio Corvino
General Manager
Observatory of Industries and Banks, Italy

Antony has been a key inspiration for my students at Roskilde University and for many research project brought on in Italy. He has been in Italy a  key speaker an the Sorrento Meeting in 2012 where his idea of a European Triple Mezzogiorno was lunched, vividly discussed and has since oriented the work of the Italian Observatory of Industry and Banks. His lecture holds in Rome at the Association for Cooperative Popular Banks his still remembered as a mile stone for the European thinking and perception. Antony leave us alone in a moment where his contribution and warmly support for the European cause is as never needed. We remind him as friend and inspiring source in the terrible work still to be done.
Bruno Amoroso
Observatory of Industries and Banks,Italy

We all loose an intellectual monument in broad European and world-wide scientific thinking! In our hearts Antoni will remain forever our admired mentor, thanks also to his permanent stream of publications.
Herman Baeyens
Regional Development Advisor, former General-Director “MENS EN RUIMTE, Belgium

It is a great loss to all of us, to the community of scientists and scholars devoted to international cooperation. and territorial development . Antoni was an extraordinary person. We all owe him a lot and we will all miss him.  
His ideas and fruits of his work will always remain with us and guide us.
Ivo Šlaus
Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia

He was a most pleasant human being with the highest moral qualities; a scholar that inspired many.
Gilbert Fayl and Ulric Fayl v. Hentaller
The Global Round Table

I knew Antoni since 1972 and met him regularly all over the world.  We published together and exchanged our views. It is a great loss to all of us.
Jan Lambooy
Utrecht University, The Netherlands

He was a great scholar and a truly inspiring researcher. We will all miss him and his enlightening remarks.
Wilhelm Krull
Secretary General
VolkswagenStiftun, Germany

I will always remember him as a young, fresh and inquiring mind full of enthusiasm and drive trying to improve things through his intellectual work. We will miss him.
Mikel Landabaso
European Commission

We were very sorry to hear that Professor Antoni Kukliński had passed away. He was a distinguished scholar and academic teacher, an authority on economic geography and spatial economics. It is a profound lost for Polish science. For years he was inspiring and leading new research themes in the field.
Leszek Kasprzyk
Dean of the Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University

Professor Antoni Kukliński was our University's graduate and close friend of our Institute for years. We will remember him as a man of great creativity and passion for the research. He was an undisputed authority on economic geography, spatial economics and regional studies.
Tadeusz Stryjakiewicz
Head of the Institute of Socio-Economic Geography and Spatial Management, Adam Mickiewicz University