Szoltysek, Mikolaj
SZOLTYSEK, Mikolaj
Senior Research Fellow
Research fields
-Historical demography
-Cross-cultural comparisons of family systems
-Spatial demography
-Economic history
-Historical censuses and Big Data
Contact:
mszoltis@gmail.com
SHORT BIO
I have previously worked as at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale (Germany). I am also a former Deputy Head of the Laboratory of Historical Demography at the MPI for Demographic Research in Rostock (Germany). In 2015 I earned the Habilitation degree at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg in Social and Economic History. In 2006-08 I was the Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow at the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. The research carried out in the UK has resulted in my book “Rethinking East Central Europe: Fam¬ily Systems and Co-residence in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth”, published within the series Population, Famille et Société edited by Michel Oris. Since then, I have been involved in developing The Mosaic Project, one of the largest infrastructural projects in historical demography and family sociology in Europe (www.censusmosaic.org). Currently, I continue my work on historical family patterns, especially in the context of spatially contingent relationships between different aspects of family systems. My current research project is "HUMAN FAMILY SYSTEMS AS ENVIRONMENTAL ADAPTATIONS: THE CASE OF HISTORIC EURASIA, 1700-1926".
PUBLICATION LIST
BOOKS
Szołtysek, M. (2015). Rethinking East-central Europe: family systems and co-residence in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth [Monograph] (Peter Lang: Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 1066 pp; 2 vols. [reviewed in: The Slavic Review, Popolazione e Storia, Journal of Family History, Romanian Journal of Population, Continuity and Change, Economic History Review, Genus]
PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Mikołaj Szołtysek, Bartosz Ogórek & Siegfried Gruber (2020): Global and local correlations of Hajnal’s household formation markers in historical Europe: A cautionary tale. Population Studies
Szołtysek, M. (2019). How Many Household Formation Systems Were There in Historic Europe? A View Across 256 Regions Using Partitioning Clustering Methods. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History (with B. Ogórek).
Szołtysek, M. (2019). “One size does not fit all”: Spatial nonstationarity in the determinants of elderly residential isolation in historical Europe. Population, Space, and Place. 2019;e2242. (with Ogórek, B, Poniat, R, Gruber, S.).
Szołtysek, M. (2019). Family organisation and human capital inequalities in historic Europe: testing the association anew. In C. Diebolt, A. Rijpma, S. Carmichael, S. Dilli, and C. Störmer (Eds.), Cliometrics and the Family: Global Patterns and their Impact on Diverging Development, pp. 83-119. Cham: Springer Nature (with R. Poniat, S. Klüsener, and S. Gruber).
Szołtysek, M., (2019). Making a Place for Space: A Demographic Spatial Perspective on Living Arrangements Among the Elderly in Historical Europe. European Journal of Population (with Ogórek, B, Poniat, R).
Szołtysek, M., (2018). Historical family systems and contemporary developmental outcomes: what is to be gained from the historical census microdata revolution? The History of the Family 23:3, pages 466-492. (with Poniat, R).
Szołtysek, M. (2018). The Power of the Family: New Data Reveal the Role of the Historical Family as the Instigator of Disparate and Lasting Developmental Trajectories. World Values Research 10 (1): 1-39 (with R. Poniat).
Szołtysek, M. (2018). Age heaping patterns in Mosaic data, Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, 51:1, 13-38 (with R. Poniat & S. Gruber).
Szołtysek, M. (2017) The Patriarchy Index: A New Measure of Gender and Generational Inequalities in the Past. Cross-Cultural Research 51 (3): 228 – 262 (with Klüsener, S., Poniat, R., and S. Gruber).
Szołtysek, M. (2017). “Girl Power” in Eastern Europe? The human capital development of Central-Eastern and Eastern Europe in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries and its determinants. European Review of Economic History 21 (1): 29-63 (with J. Baten and M. Campestrini).
Szołtysek, M. (2016) A stem-family society without the stem-family ideology? The case of eighteenth-century Poland, The History of the Family, 21:4, 502-530.
Szołtysek, M. (2016). Historical family systems and European inequalities: a way forward for the future. In Koen Matthijs, Saskia Hin, Jan Kok & Hideko Matsuo (Eds.), The future of historical demography: Upside down and inside out, Publisher: ACCO Uitgeverij, pp.59-52.
Szołtysek, M. (2016). De invloed van demografi sche parameters op de huishoudsamenstelling in het achttiende-eeuwse Oost-Europa. Wat kunnen we leren door data van historische volkstellingen en uitkomsten van microsimulaties te vergelijken? In Puschmann, P., Paping, R. & Matthijs, K. (Eds.), Familie en levenskansen in het verleden. Jaarboek. Leuven: Acco, 153-182.
Szołtysek, M. (2016) The patriarchy index: a comparative study of power relations across historical Europe, The History of the Family, 21(2): 133-174 (with S. Gruber).
Szołtysek, M. (2016). Mosaic: recovering surviving census records and reconstructing the familial history of Europe. The History of the Family, 21(1), 38-60 (with S. Gruber).
Szołtysek, M. (2015). Fertilität und Familienformationen in historischer Perspektive. In: Niephaus, Y. et al.(Eds.), Handbuch Bevölkerungssoziologie, pp. 179-200. Springer: Wiesb. (with G. Fertig).
Szołtysek, M. (2015). Residence patterns and demographic constraints: The case of historical Eastern Europe; Journal of Family History 40 (3), 323-350.
Szołtysek, M. (2015). Households and family systems in early modern Europe. In: The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750, Volume I: Peoples and Place., Chapter:, Publisher: Oxford: Oxford University Press., Editors: H. Scott, pp. 313-341.
Szołtysek, M. (2015). Residence patterns and the human-ecological setting in historical Eastern Europe: a challenge of compositional (re)analysis. In P. Kreager, B. Winney, S. Ulijaszek, C. Capelli (eds.), Population in the human sciences: concepts, models, evidence. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 431-468.
Szołtysek, M. (2014). Living arrangements of the elderly in two Eastern European joint-family societies: Poland-Lithuania around 1800 and Albania in 1918, The Hungarian Historical Review, 3(1), 101-140 (with S. Gruber).
Szołtysek, M. (2014) Spatial variation in household structure in 19th-century Germany, Population-E, 69 (1), 55-80 (with Gruber, S., Klüsener, S., and Goldstein, J. R).
Szołtysek, M. (2012). Spatial construction of European family and household systems: promising path or blind alley? An Eastern European perspective. Continuity and Change 27(1), 11-52.
Szołtysek, M. (2011). Living arrangements and household formation in an industrializing urban setting: Rostock 1867-1900, Annales de démographie historique, 122(2), 233-269 (with Gruber S., Zuber-Goldstein B., Scholz R.).
Szołtysek, M. (2009). Historical family systems and the great European divide: the invention of the Slavic East. Demográfia (English edition) 52(5): 5-47 (with B. Zuber-Goldstein).
Szołtysek, M. (2009). Life cycle service and family systems in the rural countryside: a lesson from historical East-Central Europe, Annales de Démographie Historique, 1, 53-94.
Szołtysek, M. (2008). Three kinds of preindustrial household formation system in historical Eastern Europe: A challenge to spatial patterns of the European family’, The History of the Family 13(3), 223-257.
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