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Giedroyć Family
The House of Giedroyć (; lt, Giedraitis; russian: Гедройц; French: ''Guedroitz'') is the name of an aristocratic clan and family which traces its origins to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. According to the 16th century '' Lithuanian Chronicle'', they are descendants of Prince Giedrius, a brother of Grand Duke Traidenis. Many family members were important figures in Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, French and British history or culture. The family's original domain was the Lithuanian town of Giedraičiai. Notable members * Blessed Michał Giedroyć (1420–1485), Augustinian monk * Merkelis Giedraitis (1536–1609), Bishop of Samogitia * Romuald Giedroyć (1750–1824), Commander of the allied Lithuanian regiments of Napoleon's Grande Armée * Vera Gedroitz (1870–1932), Russian military surgeon * Konstantin Gedroits (1872–1932), Russian soil scientist * Wladimir Guedroitz (1873–1941), Chamberlain of the Imperial Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Duchy Of Lithuania
The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a European state that existed from the 13th century to 1795, when the territory was partitioned among the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Prussia, and the Habsburg Empire of Austria. The state was founded by Lithuanians, who were at the time a polytheistic nation born from several united Baltic tribes from Aukštaitija. The Grand Duchy expanded to include large portions of the former Kievan Rus' and other neighbouring states, including what is now Lithuania, Belarus and parts of Ukraine, Latvia, Poland, Russia and Moldova. At its greatest extent, in the 15th century, it was the largest state in Europe. It was a multi-ethnic and multiconfessional state, with great diversity in languages, religion, and cultural heritage. The consolidation of the Lithuanian lands began in the late 13th century. Mindaugas, the first ruler of the Grand Duchy, was crowned as Catholic King of Lithuania in 1253. The pagan state was targeted in a religious crusade by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bishop Of Samogitia
Bishops of Samogitia, Samogitian diocese (now a part of Lithuania) from 1417 to 1926. The seat of the diocese was in Varniai/Medininkai until 1864, when it was moved to Kaunas. It was liquidated in 1926 by Pope Pius XI when the archdiocese of Kaunas was created. References * Błaszczyk, Grzegorz. Diecezja żmudzka od XV do początku XVII wieku : ustrój—Wyd. 1. – Poznań : Wydaw. Naukowe UAM, 1993. – 369 p, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu. Seria Historia ; Nr. 180) ; ISSN 0554-8217 External links Lietuvos dailės muziejaus Žemaičių vyskupaiVarniai muziejaus Žemaičių vyskupai*{{in lang, lt}Varnių katedra Samogitia Bishops A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ca ... History of Samogitia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Professor
Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an Academy, academic rank at university, universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a "person who professes". Professors are usually experts in their field and teachers of the highest rank. In most systems of List of academic ranks, academic ranks, "professor" as an unqualified title refers only to the most senior academic position, sometimes informally known as "full professor". In some countries and institutions, the word "professor" is also used in titles of lower ranks such as associate professor and assistant professor; this is particularly the case in the United States, where the unqualified word is also used colloquially to refer to associate and assistant professors as well. This usage would be considered incorrect among other academic communities. However, the otherwise unqualified title "Professor" designated with a capital let ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexis Guedroitz
Prince Alexis Nicolaevich Guedroitz (9 June 1923 - Pancevo, Serbia – 1 February 1992 - Brussels, Belgium) was a Belgian professor of Russian Language and Literature (Ecole de Guerre; Centre Nucléaire de Mol; Higher Institute of Interpreters and Translators Marie Haps; Higher Institute of the City of Brussels) and an Interpreter who participated in several meetings between Soviet and Belgian politicians (Spaak-Khrushchev (1961); Spaak-Kosygin (1969); Harmel-Gromyko (1972); official visit of the King and Queen of the Belgians in USSR (1975); ... ) He was also one of the founders and delegates in Belgium of the International Dostoevsky Society (IDS). Biography Childhood Born in exile in Pancevo, Serbia, in 1923, Alexis Guedroitz was the son of the Russian Prince Nicholas Wladimirovich Guedroitz and his wife Alexandra Gregorievna Strigewsky. Shortly after his birth, his father, a young officer of the Imperial Guard, died from wounds of war. The young Alexis, his sister Olga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Writer
A writer is a person who uses written words in different writing styles and techniques to communicate ideas. Writers produce different forms of literary art and creative writing such as novels, short stories, books, poetry, travelogues, plays, screenplays, teleplays, songs, and essays as well as other reports and news articles that may be of interest to the general public. Writers' texts are published across a wide range of media. Skilled writers who are able to use language to express ideas well, often contribute significantly to the cultural content of a society. The term "writer" is also used elsewhere in the arts and music, such as songwriter or a screenwriter, but also a stand-alone "writer" typically refers to the creation of written language. Some writers work from an oral tradition. Writers can produce material across a number of genres, fictional or non-fictional. Other writers use multiple media such as graphics or illustration to enhance the commun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerzy Giedroyc
Jerzy Władysław Giedroyc (; 27 July 1906 – 14 September 2000) was a Polish writer and political activist and for many years editor of the highly influential Paris-based periodical, ''Kultura''. Early life Giedroyć was born into a Polish-Lithuanian (adjective), Polish-Lithuanian noble family on 27 July 1906, with the title of ''kniaź'', prince. His schooling in Moscow was interrupted by the October Revolution, when he returned home to Minsk. During the Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921 his family left Minsk for Warsaw, where he finished the Jan Zamoyski Gymnasium (school), gymnasium in 1924. He went on to study law and Ukrainian history and literature at the University of Warsaw. Career Giedroyć worked as a journalist and civil servant in Second Polish Republic, interwar Poland, he maintained contacts with leading Ukrainians and urged the Roman Catholic Church to improve relations with the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Greek Catholic Church to which most Ukrainians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chamberlain (office)
A chamberlain (Medieval Latin: ''cambellanus'' or ''cambrerius'', with charge of treasury ''camerarius'') is a senior royal official in charge of managing a royal household. Historically, the chamberlain superintends the arrangement of domestic affairs and was often also charged with receiving and paying out money kept in the royal chamber. The position was usually honoured upon a high-ranking member of the nobility (nobleman) or the clergy, often a royal favourite. Roman emperors appointed this officer under the title of ''cubicularius''. The Chamberlain of the Holy Roman Church enjoys very extensive powers, having the revenues of the papal household under his charge. As a sign of their dignity, they bore a key, which in the seventeenth century was often silvered, and actually fitted the door-locks of chamber rooms. Since the eighteenth century, it has turned into a merely symbolic, albeit splendid, rank-insignia of gilded bronze. In many countries there are ceremonial posts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wladimir Guedroitz
Prince Wladimir Cesarevich Guedroitz (in Russian: Владимир Цезаревич Гедройц) was Chamberlain of the Imperial Court of Russia, Actual State Councilor and Chairman of the Control Commission of the Russian Empire. Biography Prince Wladimir Guedroitz was born in Tver (''Russia'') in 1873 and died in Courbevoie (''France'') in 1941. He married in Saint Petersburg (1895) Olga ''Nicolaevna'' Karmaline (Drivan (''Lithuania'') 1872 + Courbevoie (''France'') 1941) who was the daughter of General Nicholas ''Nicholaevich'' Karmaline and his wife born Lubov ''Ivanovna'' Belenitzine. From this union were born three sons : Prince Nicholas ''Wladimirovich'' GuedroitzOpen database of officers of the Imperial Russian ArmyGedroits Nikolay Vladimirovich/ref> (Saint Petersburg (''Russia'') 1896 + Kórós (''Hungary'') 1923), Prince Michael ''Wladimirovich'' Guedroitz (Saint Petersburg (''Russia'') 1899 + Biarritz (''France'') 1966) and Prince Alexis ''Wladimirovich'' Guedroit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konstantin Gedroits
Konstantin Kaetanovich Gedroits (Russian: Константин Каэтанович Гедройц; 25 March 1872 – 5 October 1932) was a Russians, Russian soil science, soil scientist of Lithuanian origins. He was a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union and a president of the International Union of Soil Sciences (1927–1930). Biography Gedroits belonged to the Lithuanian aristocratic Giedroyć family. He was born in Bessarabia, which was then part of the Russian Empire. He studied in Saint Petersburg, where he graduated from the Forest Institute in 1897 and from the Saint Petersburg Imperial University in 1903. After that he led the chemistry laboratory of the :ru:Почвенный институт имени В. В. Докучаева, Dokuchaev Soil Institute in Moscow (1915–17) and the Department of Soil Science of the Forest Institute in Saint Petersburg (1917–30). In 1929–30 he headed the Dokuchaev Soil Institute, and in 1927 was elected as pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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