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Jan III Sobieski High School, Kraków
Jan III Sobieski High School in Kraków is a high school in Kraków, Kraków, Poland. It was founded in 1883. History The school was founded as a tribute to King Jan III Sobieski and his victory at battle of Vienna. The new building, which is still the location of ''Jan III Sobieski High School'' was completed in 1887. The students took part in both World Wars, fighting for the independence of Poland. During the Nazi occupation of Poland, the Germans made an office building of the school and destroyed the book collection. After the Wehrmacht left Kraków, the school was first in the city that started holding classes again. Since 1969 the school has been an organizer of a theatrical contest ''Festiwal Małych Form Teatralnych'' (''Small Theatrical Forms Festival''), where many famous Polish actors started their careers. A student of Sobieski High School, Przemysław Mazur, was awarded a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2006, 2007 and 2008. Sobieski High S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liceum Ogólnokształcące
A general education liceum (Polish: ''Liceum ogólnokształcące'' ) is an academic high school in the Education in Poland, Polish educational system. They are attended by those who plan to further their academic education upon graduation from Education in Poland, szkoła podstawowa (compulsory education) through a path other than Technikum (Polish education), Technikum or Vocational school (since it's impossible for one to be at the age of 18 or more upon graduation from Education in Poland, szkola podstawowa, thus education is still mandatory for them one has to pick one of the three). Before graduating from liceum, students take a final exam called a "matura" (equivalent to the A-Level). It's a tradition for students of graduating grades and school staff to host and attend a prom called "studniówka" about a 100 days before the exams. There are several types (ages of students in brackets): * General Liceum (15-19) * Specialized Liceum (15-19) * Supplementary Liceum (17-20, opti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zdzisław Krygowski
Zdzisław Jan Ewangelii Antoni Krygowski (Lwów, 1872 — 1955, Poznań) was a Polish mathematician, rector of the Lwów Polytechnic (1917–18), and professor at Poznań University (1919–38, 1946–55). Enigma Krygowski has become famous in the history of cryptology for having assisted the Polish General Staff in setting up its cryptology course for Poznań University mathematics students that began on January 15, 1929. This led eventually to the General Staff's Cipher Bureau's recruitment of Marian Rejewski, Henryk Zygalski and Jerzy Różycki, who would jointly break and decrypt the World War II-era German Enigma-machine ciphers, beginning at the end of December 1932.See "Marian Rejewski," footnote citation no. 1. Family Zdzisław Krygowski had three brothers - Tadeusz, Kazimierz and Stanisław. He married Rose New from England. They had one daughter Eileen Krygowska-Korczyńska, who after World War II worked for Jan Nowak-Jeziorański at RFE. See also *List of Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariusz Ziółko
Mariusz Ziółko (born September 18, 1946, in Hamburg) is a Polish Professor of automatics and signal processing. He graduated in 1970 from AGH University of Science and Technology, where he also received PhD in 1973 and habilitation in 1990. In 2001 he received a title of a professor of technical studies from a president of Poland. He was a DAAD stipendist at University of Wuppertal. He was a visiting professor at Fachhochule St. Pölten at Austria in 2005. He is a professor in AGH Department of Electronics, where he leads a Digital Signal Processing Group. He was a member of several scientific organisations including IEEE, SIAM, EURASIP, ISCA and a chair of several conferences. He is a coauthor of pioneer publications from mathematical optimization Mathematical optimization (alternatively spelled ''optimisation'') or mathematical programming is the selection of a best element, with regard to some criterion, from some set of available alternatives. It is generally divi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerzy Turowicz
Jerzy Turowicz (; 10 December 1912 – 27 January 1999) was a leading Polish Catholic journalist and editor for much of the post-Second World War period. He was editor of the Catholic weekly ''Tygodnik Powszechny'' from 1945 until his death in 1999, except for three years in the early 1950s. Early life and education Turowicz was born on 10 December 1912 in Kraków, Poland, the son of Klotylda (Turnau) and August Turowicz, a judge. In 1930, he joined a Catholic youth organization, called ''Rebirth''. He graduated from Jagiellonian University in 1939 with a degree in philosophy. Career and activities Turowicz was appointed chief editor of ''Głos Narodu'' in 1939. During World War II, he worked in the underground journals. In 1945, he became editor of the Catholic weekly ''Tygodnik Powszechny'', which he also cofounded. It was financed by Adam Sapieha, Archbishop of Kraków. However, there is another report, arguing that Sapieha was loosely related to the weekly. Turowicz ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Sztaudynger
Jan Izydor Sztaudynger (Kraków, 28 April 1904 – 12 September 1970, Kraków) was a Polish poet and satirist who enjoyed enormous popularity after World War II. Life Jan Sztaudynger studied Polish and German language, German philology at Kraków's Jagiellonian University. He is known for his epigrams, which in Poland are called ''fraszki'' (singular: ''fraszka''). Sztaudynger called some of his epigrams ''piórka'' (singular: ''piórko''). In 1964 Sztaudynger published a poetry collection, ''Tranzytem przez Łódź'' (Transit through Łódź), in which he expressed nostalgia for that city's ''Fraszka'' cafe. Sample ''fraszki'' "''Głos w telefonie''" ''Halo - tu sumienie.'' ''Czy pan zamówił budzenie?' "A voice on the phone" Hello, this is your conscience. Did you order a wake-up call? "Nie lubię" Nie lubię siebie sam za dobrze siebie znam "Don't like" I don't like myself I know myself too well "Może zaszczytnie" Łamią cie? Może zaszczytnie Bez wtedy łam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomasz Szczypiński
Tomasz Szczypiński (born 22 September 1953 in Kraków) is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 7399 votes in 13 Kraków district as a candidate from the Civic Platform Civic Platform ( pl, Platforma Obywatelska, PO)The party is officially the Civic Platform of the Republic of Poland (''Platforma Obywatelska Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej''). is a political party in Poland. It is currently led by Donald Tusk. It w ... list. He was also a member of Sejm 2001-2005. See also * Members of Polish Sejm 2005-2007 External linksTomasz Szczypiński - parliamentary page- includes declarations of interest, voting record, and transcripts of speeches. Members of the Polish Sejm 2005–2007 Members of the Polish Sejm 2001–2005 Civic Platform politicians 1953 births Living people {{CivicPlatform-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Marcin Szancer
Jan Marcin Szancer (12 November 1902 – 21 March 1973) was a Polish illustrator, scenographer and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Szancer was born into a Jewish family in Kraków. He studied at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts, and later in France and Italy. He was a friend of Jan Brzechwa many of whose poems he illustrated. Szancer illustrated over 200 books, including Henryk Sienkiewicz's ''Trilogy'', Adam Mickiewicz's ''Pan Tadeusz'' and Brzechwa's ''Pan Kleks'' series. Beginning in May 1945, he was the editor and cover-illustrator of the children's magazine Świerszczyk. He was the first (post World War II) artistic director for Telewizja Polska, the Polish broadcasting organization. The "Crooked House of Sopot" (Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Poles Poles,, ; singular masculine: ''Polak'', singular feminine: ''Polka'' or Polish people, are a West Slavic nation and ethnic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henryk Reyman
Henryk Tomasz Reyman (28 July 1897 – 11 April 1963) was a Polish footballer, sports official and military officer. He fought in World War I in the Austrian Army, then in the Polish Army in the Polish-Soviet War, and also participated in the Silesian Uprisings. The exact number of goals he scored for Wisła Kraków in all of his games is unknown but it's estimated to be over 378 goals (in 328 games) Sports career Born in Kraków, Reyman joined Wisła Kraków in 1910 and remained with the club until his death. He made his debut in the first squad in 1914. When Reyman began his career in Wisła it was one of the oldest Polish football clubs but had no great sports success. By the end of his career in 1933 Wisła was already the champions team which year to year was said to prevail in the National Football League. It was him who led the team to great successes and conducted the exceptional and well-recognizable in Poland style of play of the ‘Reds’. Reyman was the centre f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Raczyński (1891-1993) (1891–1993), son of E. A. Raczyński, Polish aristocrat, diplomat, politician and the President of Poland in exile between 1979 and 1986
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Edward Raczyński was the name of three members of a Polish aristocratic family: * Edward Raczyński (1786–1845) Polish conservative politician, protector of arts, founder of the Raczynski Library in Poznań * Edward Aleksander Raczyński (1847–1926) grandson of E. Raczyński, founder of the famous Raczyński Art Gallery in Rogalin * Edward Bernard Raczyński Count Edward Bernard Raczyński (December 19, 1891 – July 30, 1993) was a Polish diplomat, writer, politician, President of Poland- in-exile (between 1979 and 1986). He was the longest living (101), and oldest serving Polish President (f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tadeusz Peiper
Tadeusz Peiper (3 May 1891, Kraków – 10 November 1969, Warsaw) was a Polish poet, art critic, theoretician of literature and one of the precursors of the avant-garde movement in Polish poetry. Born to a Jewish family, Peiper converted to Catholicism as a young man and spent several years in Spain. Marci Shore ''Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism, 1918–1968.''''Yale University Press'' 2006, . He was a co-founder of the ''Awangarda krakowska'' ('Kraków Avant-garde') group of writers.Nina Kolesnikoff ''...Evolution from Futurism to Socialist Realism'', p. 37. ''Wilfrid Laurier University Press'' 1982, . In 1921, in the Second Polish Republic, he founded the ''Zwrotnica'' ('Railroad switch') monthly, devoted mostly to avant-garde movements in contemporary poetry. Although short-lived, the magazine (issued until 1923 and then briefly reactivated between 1926 and 1927), paved the way for young poets of the ''Awangarda krakowska'' group, among them Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthropologist
An anthropologist is a person engaged in the practice of anthropology. Anthropology is the study of aspects of humans within past and present societies. Social anthropology, cultural anthropology and philosophical anthropology study the norms and values of societies. Linguistic anthropology studies how language affects social life, while economic anthropology studies human economic behavior. Biological (physical), forensic and medical anthropology study the biological development of humans, the application of biological anthropology in a legal setting and the study of diseases and their impacts on humans over time, respectively. Education Anthropologists usually cover a breadth of topics within anthropology in their undergraduate education and then proceed to specialize in topics of their own choice at the graduate level. In some universities, a qualifying exam serves to test both the breadth and depth of a student's understanding of anthropology; the students who pass are pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bronisław Malinowski
Bronisław Kasper Malinowski (; 7 April 1884 – 16 May 1942) was a Polish-British anthropologist and ethnologist whose writings on ethnography, social theory, and field research have exerted a lasting influence on the discipline of anthropology. Malinowski was born in what was part of the Austrian partition of Poland, and completed his initial studies at Jagiellonian University in his birth city of Kraków. From 1910, at the London School of Economics (LSE), he studied exchange and economics, analysing Aboriginal Australia through ethnographic documents. In 1914 he traveled to Australia. He conducted research in the Trobriand Islands and other regions in New Guinea and Melanesia where he stayed for several years, studying indigenous cultures. Returning to England after World War I, he published his principal work, ''Argonauts of the Western Pacific'' (1922), which established him as one of Europe's most important anthropologists. He took posts as lecturer and later as chair ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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