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Narutowicz Death
Narutowicz is a Polish surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Gabriel Narutowicz (1865-1922), president of Poland * Joanna Narutowicz (1868-1948), wife of Stanislaw * Stanisław Narutowicz Stanisław Narutowicz ( lt, Stanislovas Narutavičius ) (2 September 1862, Telšiai District Municipality, Brewiki, Kovno Governorate – 31 December 1932, Kaunas, Lithuania) was a lawyer and politician, Signatories of the Act of Independence of L ... (1862-1932), brother of Gabriel, Polish-Lithuanian activist * Kazimierz Narutowicz (1904-1987), son of Stanisław and Joanna, Polish-Lithuanian activist {{surname, Narutowicz Polish-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Narutowicz
Gabriel Józef Narutowicz (; 29 March 1865 – 16 December 1922) was a Polish professor of hydroelectric engineering and politician who served as the first President of Poland from 11 December 1922 until his assassination on 16 December, five days after assuming office. He previously served as the Minister of Public Works from 1920 to 1922 and briefly as Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1922. A renowned engineer and politically independent, Narutowicz was the first elected head of state following Poland's regained sovereignty from partitioning powers. Born into a noble family with the strong patriotic sentiment, Narutowicz studied at the University of St. Petersburg before relocating to Zurich Polytechnic and completing his studies in Switzerland. An engineer by profession, he was a pioneer of electrification and his works were presented at exhibitions across Western Europe. Narutowicz also directed the construction of the first European hydroelectric power plants in Monthey, Mü ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joanna Narutowicz
Joanna Narutowicz Billewicz ( lt, Joana Bilevičiūtė-Narutavičienė; 21 March 1868 – 19 February 1948) was a Polish-Lithuanian educational activist and the last owner of the (Lithuania). Born to the Billewicz family, she was a cousin to Poland's first chief of state Józef Piłsudski and General Leon Billewicz. She married Stanisław Narutowicz, a signatory of the Act of Independence of Lithuania, with whom she ran several cultural facilities. Notably, she headed the gymnasium for girls in Telšiai. She was also the chairperson of the last Polish gymnasium in Kaunas, Lithuania. She left Lithuanian SSR after World War II and settled in Warsaw. She died there and was buried at Powązki Cemetery. Biography Early life and education Narutowicz was born in the Billewicz family, an old family of Samogitian nobility. She was a daughter of Hipolit Billewicz and Helena née Dowgird. Her siblings included educator Sofija Bilevičiūtė-Zubovienė and chemical engineer . She atte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanisław Narutowicz
Stanisław Narutowicz ( lt, Stanislovas Narutavičius ) (2 September 1862, Telšiai District Municipality, Brewiki, Kovno Governorate – 31 December 1932, Kaunas, Lithuania) was a lawyer and politician, Signatories of the Act of Independence of Lithuania, one of the twenty signatories of the Act of Independence of Lithuania and brother to the first president of Poland Gabriel Narutowicz. He was also the only Polish-Lithuanian (adjective), Polish–Lithuanian member of the Council of Lithuania, Taryba, the provisional Lithuanian parliament formed in the later stages of World War I. Biography The Narutowicz family, which had its roots in Lithuanian nobility, received a coat of arms in 1413, changing its name from Noručiai (singular Norutis) to Narutowicz in the process. He was a self-declared Samogitian, Lithuanians, Lithuanian and a Polish people, Pole. His parents, Jan Narutowicz and Wiktoria née Szczepkowska were landowners and ran a manor. His father took part in the January U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazimierz Narutowicz
Kazimierz Narutowicz (1904, Brewiki, Kovno Governorate - 1987) was a Polish Lithuanian political activist. Son of Stanisław Narutowicz, in interwar Lithuania in 1934-1938 he tried to mediate between the ministries of diplomacy of Poland and Lithuania for settlement of the conflict for the city of Wilno (since 1945 Vilnius). Arrested by the Soviets after occupation of the Baltic states in 1940 during World War II and forcibly resettled to Siberia, in 1947 he was released and settled in Poland (Lithuania still being occupied by the Soviets as the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic The Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic (Lithuanian SSR; lt, Lietuvos Tarybų Socialistinė Respublika; russian: Литовская Советская Социалистическая Республика, Litovskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialistiche ...), where the communist government relegated him to work in the industrial sector. References * Jackiewicz Mieczysław, "Polacy na Litwie 1918-2000" (sło ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
