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2005 In Poland
Events during the year 2005 in Poland. Incumbents Events * 9 and 23 October – 2005 Polish presidential election Deaths * 11 January – Jerzy Pawłowski, fencer and double agent (born 1932). * 20 January – Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, journalist, writer, politician and social worker (born 1914) * 25 January – Stanisław Albinowski, economist (born 1923) * 21 February – Zdzisław Beksiński painter, photographer and sculptor (born 1929) * 17 March – Czesław Słania, engraver (born 1921) * 3 April – Aleksy Antkiewicz, boxer (born 1923). * 17 April – Marian Sawa, composer (born 1937) * 12 May – Zdzisław Gierwatowski, footballer (born 1920) * 14 May – Józef Gąsienica, Nordic combined skier (born 1941). * 26 May – Krzysztof Nowak, footballer (born 1975) * 30 May – Tomasz Pacyński, fantasy and science fiction writer (born 1958) * 26 June – Filip Adwent, politician (born 1955) * 20 August – Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous member state of the European Union. Warsaw is the nation's capital and largest metropolis. Other major cities include Kraków, Wrocław, Łódź, Poznań, Gdańsk, and Szczecin. Poland has a temperate transitional climate and its territory traverses the Central European Plain, extending from Baltic Sea in the north to Sudeten and Carpathian Mountains in the south. The longest Polish river is the Vistula, and Poland's highest point is Mount Rysy, situated in the Tatra mountain range of the Carpathians. The country is bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukraine to the east, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south, and Germany to the west. It also shares maritime boundaries with Denmark and Sweden. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zdzisław Beksiński
Zdzisław Beksiński (; 24 February 192921 February 2005) was a Polish painter, photographer, and sculptor, specializing in the field of dystopian surrealism. Beksiński made his paintings and drawings in what he called either a Baroque or a Gothic manner. His creations were made mainly in two periods. The first period of work is generally considered to contain expressionistic color, with a strong style of "utopian realism" and surreal architecture, like a doomsday scenario. The second period contained more abstract style, with the main features of formalism.Krzysztof Jurecki (August 2004)Zdzisław Beksiński at Culture.pl, Museum of Art in Łódź. Translated by Marek Kępa, February 2012. Beksiński was stabbed to death at his Warsaw apartment in February 2005, by a 19-year-old acquaintance from Wołomin, reportedly because he refused to lend him money.Polska Agencja Prasowa (29 November 2010)Morderstwo malarza Zdzisława Beksińskiego. Zabójca Beksińskiego posiedzi 25 lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marian Zieliński
Marian Zieliński (24 December 1929 – 13 October 2005) was a Polish weightlifter. He competed at the 1956, 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympics and won bronze medals in 1956, 1964 and 1968, placing fourth in 1960. He held the world and European titles in 1959 and 1963. Zieliński set three ratified world records: two in the snatch in 1958 and one in the clean and jerk The clean and jerk is a composite of two weightlifting movements, most often performed with a barbell: the clean and the jerk. During the ''clean'', the lifter moves the barbell from the floor to a racked position across the deltoids, without res ... in 1964. Zieliński took up weightlifting in the early 1950s, and retired in 1970. He then coached weightlifters until 1978, and after that worked as a painter, sculptor and jeweler. He was married to Jadwiga Nienartowicz and had two sons, Andrzej (born 1958) and Mark (born 1960), both live in Canada. References 1929 births 2005 deaths Polish male weightlifters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Podrzycki
Daniel Tomasz Podrzycki (; 14 June 1963 – 24 September 2005) was a Polish socialist politician. Podrzycki was born in Siemianowice Śląskie. His career began from participation in the activity of illegal students' circles of Warsaw, which appeared at the end of the Seventies and were oriented at the beginning on the diccident Committee on Defending the Workers (Komitet Obrony Robotnikow) and later on the forbidden in 1981 independent trade-union movement "Solidarity" (Solidarność). Because his actively participation in this and several such organizations, Podrzycki was arrested twice by the secret police and condemned for anti-governmental activity. In 1993 Podrzycki, together with several of his nearest colleagues established and headed the independent Free Working Union " August - 80" (Wolny Zwiazek Zawodowy "Sierpien-80"). In 1993-1994 Podrzycki for the first time famous all over Poland having organized a series of massive strikes on several large industrial facilities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arkadiusz Gołaś
Arkadiusz Gołaś (10 May 1981 – 16 September 2005) was a Polish volleyball player, member of the Poland men's national volleyball team in 2001–2005, participant of the Olympic Games (Athens 2004). Personal life He married Agnieszka (née Dziewońska) on July 21, 2005. His best man was another volleyball player, his best friend Krzysztof Ignaczak. On September 16, 2005 Arkadiusz died in Griffen, Austria near Klagenfurt in Austria on the A2 motorway when the car he was riding in struck a concrete wall. His wife, Agnieszka, who was driving, survived. They were on their way to Macerata, where Arkadiusz was due to begin playing his first season at the club Lube Banca Macerata. His last match with the Polish national team was on September 8, 2005, when Poland beat Portugal (3-0). His funeral held on September 22, 2005 in Ostrołęka. Sports achievements Clubs National championships * 2000/2001 Polish Championship, with AZS Częstochowa * 2001/2002 Polish Championship, wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Rotblat
Sir Joseph Rotblat (4 November 1908 – 31 August 2005) was a Polish and British physicist. During World War II he worked on Tube Alloys and the Manhattan Project, but left the Los Alamos Laboratory on grounds of conscience after it became clear that Germany had ceased development of an atomic bomb in 1942. His work on nuclear fallout was a major contribution toward the ratification of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. A signatory of the 1955 Russell–Einstein Manifesto, he was secretary-general of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs from their founding until 1973 and shared, with the Pugwash Conferences, the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize "for efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international affairs and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms." Early life Józef Rotblat was born on 4 November 1908, to a Polish-Jewish family in Warsaw, in what was then Russian Poland. He was one of seven children, two of whom died in infancy. His fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romuald Grabczewski
Romuald Grabczewski (7 February 1932 – 20 August 2005) was a Polish chess player who won the Polish Chess Championship in 1968. He received the FIDE title of International Master (IM) in 1972. Chess career In 1950 Grabczewski won bronze medal in Polish Junior Chess Championship. From 1953 to 1977 Grabczewski played sixteen times in the Polish Chess Championship's finals, and in 1968 he won tournament in Łódź. In 1966 he won silver medal in first Polish Fast Chess Championship. Grabczewski was a multiple medalist in Polish Team Chess Championship, including nine gold medals. Grabczewski took part in more than twenty international tournaments. He won tournament in Eksjö (1974), stayed in third place in Warsaw (1961), Lublin (1971), Marina Romea (1978), and stayed in fourth place in Dubna (1971). Romuald Grabczewski played for Poland in Chess Olympiads: * In 1968, at second reserve board in the 18th Chess Olympiad The 18th Chess Olympiad ( it, Le 18º Olimpiadi degli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filip Adwent
Filip Stanisław Adwent (31 August 1955 – 26 June 2005) was a Polish politician and a Member of the European Parliament for the Pomeranian Voivodship. He was born in Strasbourg. He ran as a candidate from the League of Polish Families , and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development. Adwent was a substitute for the Committee on Transport and Tourism and a vice-chair of the Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee. He died eight days after he and his family were involved in a multiple car accident which occurred on 18 June 2005 near Warsaw. His father and daughter died instantly, along with two other people. Adwent, aged 49, and his mother died eight (8) days later from their injuries. Education * 2004: Physician specialising in anaesthesiology and intensive therapy (1983), post-graduate studies at the Warsaw Agricultural University in Environmental Protection Career * 2001-2002: Member of the Polish Alliance * Orga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomasz Pacyński
Tomasz Pacyński (4 February 1958 – 30 May 2005) was a Polish fantasy and science fiction writer, born in Warsaw. He was one of the creators and, from 2004, the chief editor of ''Fahrenheit'', the first Polish Internet science fiction fanzine. He published short stories in such magazines as ''Science Fiction'', ''SFera'', and ''Fantasy'', and in Internet fanzines such as ''Fahrenheit'', '' Esensja'', ''Fantazin'' and ''Srebrny Glob''. He also wrote articles published in ''SFera'' and ''Science Fiction''. He made his debut as a fantasy writer with his 2001 novel ''Sherwood'', based on the Robin Hood legend. He published four novels — the ''Sherwood'' fantasy trilogy and ''Wrzesień'' (''September'') — a post-apocalyptic political fiction novel, as well as numerous short stories. His humorous stories about Ded Moroz were published in 2005 in ''Linia ognia'' (''Line of Fire'') collection. ''Sherwood'' and ''Wrzesień'' received nominations for the Janusz A. Zajdel Award The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krzysztof Nowak
Krzysztof Nowak (; 27 September 1975 – 26 May 2005) was a Polish football player, best known for his stint with the VfL Wolfsburg team. Nowak began playing football in 1985. He slowly rose in prominence and in 1996 moved to Brazil with fellow countryman Mariusz Piekarski to play for Atlético Paranaense. He always wanted to play in Europe, so he moved to Germany in 1998 to play for Wolfsburg. Nowak, dubbed "ten of hearts" by his fans, was popular as well as skilled, but was forced to retire from the sport in early 2002 after he learned he had motor neurone disease (MND). Nowak continued to watch the games until shortly before his death. Nowak was also an important player for the Polish national team, for whom he played 10 games and scored one goal. In 2002, Nowak began a foundation to help find a cure for MND (he died from this illness). Nowak left behind a wife, Beata, and two young children – a son, Maksymillian, and a daughter, Maria. The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Józef Gąsienica
Józef Gąsienica (23 March 1941 in Zakopane – 14 May 2005 in Zakopane) was a Polish nordic combined skier who competed in the late 1960s and early 1970s. His best finish at the Winter Olympics was sixth in the Nordic combined event at Grenoble in 1968 The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide. Events January–February * January 5 – "Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. * Januar .... External links *Józef Gąsienica's profile at Sports Reference.com 1941 births 2005 deaths Nordic combined skiers at the 1968 Winter Olympics Nordic combined skiers at the 1972 Winter Olympics Polish male Nordic combined skiers Olympic Nordic combined skiers for Poland Skiers from Zakopane 20th-century Polish sportsmen {{nordic-skiing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zdzisław Gierwatowski
Zdzisław Gierwatowski (March 31, 1920 in Warsaw – May 12, 2005) was a Polish footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le .... Having originated with Polonia Warsaw, he started his career in the 1938-39 season. He was a left-sided defender with one of the most acclaimed playing stances in the Polish game during the 1940s. Serving in active combat in Warsaw during the Second World War, Gierwatowski never regained his form post-1945; he remained in football as a trainer and coach. References 1920 births 2005 deaths Polish men's footballers Polonia Warsaw players Polish football managers Polonia Warsaw managers Footballers from Warsaw Men's association football defenders {{Poland-footy-defender-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
