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Karol Schayer
Karol Schayer (25 December 1900 in Lwów – 15 March 1971 in Rockford, Illinois) was a Polish architect and soldier. He designed buildings in Katowice, Warsaw, and (during and after World War II) in Beirut, Lebanon. He was the son of Julian, a merchant in Lwów. In 1919, he passed his final exams at the Lwów Gymnasium (school), gymnasium. He fought on the side of the Polish insurgents during the fights with the Ukrainian troops Battle of Lemberg (1918), that occupied Lwów. After completing his military service, he began studying at the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University in Lwów. He soon interrupted his studies to take part in the plebiscite campaign in Spisz and Orawa. In 1920, as a volunteer, he took part in the Polish-bolshevik war, Polish-Bolshevik war. In 1921, he interrupted his studies again to help organize an 1921 Upper Silesia plebiscite, Upper Silesia plebiscite. In 1922, he returned to his studies while working in companies and architectural bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lwów
Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in western Ukraine, and the seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine. It was named in honour of Leo, the eldest son of Daniel, King of Ruthenia. Lviv emerged as the centre of the historical regions of Red Ruthenia and Galicia in the 14th century, superseding Halych, Chełm, Belz and Przemyśl. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia from 1272 to 1349, when it was conquered by King Casimir III the Great of Poland. From 1434, it was the regional capital of the Ruthenian Voivodeship in the Kingdom of Poland. In 1772, after the First Partition of Poland, the city became the capital of the Habsburg Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria. In 1918, for a short time, it was the capital of the West Ukrainian People's Republic. Between the wars, the city was the centre of the Lwów Voivodeship in the Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
