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Wacław
Wacław is a Polish masculine given name. It is a borrowing of , Latinized as Wenceslaus. For etymology and cognates in other languages, see Wenceslaus. It may refer to: * Wacław Cimochowski (1912–1982), Polish philologist * Wacław Gajewski (1911–1997), Polish geneticist * Wacław Hański (1782–1841), Polish nobleman * Wacław Kiełtyka (born 1981), Polish musician * Wacław Kopisto (1911–1993), Polish Army officer * Wacław Kuchar (1897–1981), Polish athlete * Wacław Leszczyński (1605–1666), Primate of Poland * Wacław Maciejowski (1792–1883), Polish historian * Wacław Micuta (1915–2008), Polish economist *Wacław Seweryn Rzewuski (1784–1831), Polish explorer, poet and orientalist *Wacław Sieroszewski (1858–1945), Polish writer *Wacław Sierpiński (1882–1969), Polish mathematician *Wacław Szybalski (1921–2020), Polish-American medical researcher, geneticist *Wacław Szymanowski (1859–1930), Polish sculptor and painter *Wacław of Szamotuły (c. 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wacław Sierpiński
Wacław Franciszek Sierpiński (; 14 March 1882 – 21 October 1969) was a Polish mathematician. He was known for contributions to set theory (research on the axiom of choice and the continuum hypothesis), number theory, theory of functions, and topology. He published over 700 papers and 50 books. Three well-known fractals are named after him (the Sierpiński triangle, the Sierpiński carpet, and the Sierpiński curve), as are Sierpiński numbers and the associated Sierpiński problem. Early life and education Sierpiński was born in 1882 in Warsaw, Congress Poland, to a doctor father Konstanty and mother Ludwika (''née'' Łapińska). His abilities in mathematics were evident from childhood. He enrolled in the Department of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Warsaw in 1899 and graduated five years later. In 1903, while still at the University of Warsaw, the Department of Mathematics and Physics offered a prize for the best essay from a student on Vorono ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wacław Of Szamotuły
Wacław z Szamotuł (Szamotuły, near Poznań, c. 1520 – c. 1560, Pińczów), also called Wacław Szamotulski and (in Latin) Venceslaus Samotulinus, was a Polish composer. Life Wacław z Szamotuł was a student at the Lubrański Academy in Poznań later studying at Kraków University in 1538. In 1547 or 1548 he was appointed composer to the court of Sigismund II Augustus. In 1555 Wacław left Kraków, having received the title of "royal composer." Nevertheless, during Szamotuly's lifetime his music was known outside of Poland. He died early, and only a few of his works survive. In the words of Szymon Starowolski, who wrote the first concise biography of Wacław, "If the gods had let him live longer, the Poles would have no need to envy the Italians their Palestrina, Lappi or Vedana." His motets ''In te Domine speravi'' and ''Ego sum pastor bonus'' were the first Polish musical compositions to be published abroad. According to Gustave Reese, Wacław's style may be seen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wacław Szymanowski
Wacław Szymanowski (23 August 185922 July 1930) was a Polish sculptor and painter. He is best known for his statue of composer Frédéric Chopin in Warsaw's Royal Baths Park (Łazienki Park). Life Szymanowski was born in Warsaw and was the son of , the journalist and writer (9 July 1821 – 21 December 1886), and the father of , the physicist and politician (14 April 1895 – 15 January 1965).''Encyklopedia powszechna PWN'' (1976), vol. 4, p. 372. Until about 1895 the painter-''cum''-sculptor occupied himself mainly with executing genre paintings of Polish mountaineers and Hutsuls, and portraits. He then turned to sculpture, creating compositions in Art Nouveau-Symbolist style. He designed the monuments to Artur Grottger in Kraków (1907) and to Frédéric Chopin#Memorials, Frédéric Chopin in Warsaw; tomb monuments (including his father's at Warsaw's Powązki Cemetery); and portrait busts. He died in Warsaw at age 70. Chopin monument In 1907 Szymanowski designed the bron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wacław Kopisto
Major Wacław Kopisto a.k.a. Wacław Jaworski, ''nom de guerre'' Kra (8 February 1911 – 23 February 1993) was an officer of the Polish Army in interwar Poland, infantry captain, and an underground soldier of the elite Polish ''Cichociemni'' unit (the Silent Unseen) during the occupation of Poland in World War II. Military career In 1934–35 Kopisto attended the '' Podchorąży'' military academy in Tarnopol. In 1939 he fought in the September Campaign defending Poland around the town of Podkarpacie. Following Poland's defeat by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, he escaped to Hungary, then to France, and finally Great Britain, where he became a Polish Armed Forces in the West parachutist. He was deployed back to Poland on the night of 2 September 1942 in the area of Grójec. Kopisto took part in several spectacular military actions in Volhynia against the occupying German forces as well as the collaborationist units of the UPA. On 20 January 1943 he was involved in the res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wacław Zalewski
Wacław Piotr Zalewski (25 August 1917 – 29 December 2016) was a Polish construction engineer and designer, creator of innovative buildings such as "Spodek" in Katowice, " Supersam" in Warsaw from the roof of the structure funikularnej, or train station in Katowice. He was Professor Emeritus of Structural Design at the School of Architecture of MIT. Early life and education Zalewski was born on 25 August 1917 to a Polish family settled in Samgorodek, Ukraine since the seventeenth century. He took part in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 in Czerniaków. Went to Tadeusz Czacki High School in Warsaw, where he was in the same graduating class as the poet priest Jan Twardowski. In 1947 he graduated from Warsaw University of Technology, which he began before the war, eventually graduating from the Gdańsk University of Technology. Career He has designed a whole range of new industrial construction. He was repeatedly sent to foreign conferences during the communist era to "proclaim t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wacław Kuchar
Wacław Michał Kuchar (16 September 1897 – 13 February 1981) was a Polish sports champion, Olympian, and multiple football, track and field and speed skating champion of the country. Kuchar excelled in many sports – track and field, football (firstly – as a forward, then as a midfielder, and finally at the end of his career – as a defender), skiing, speed skating and ice hockey. Even though born in Łańcut, his whole life was connected with Lwów, where he played for Pogoń Lwów – one of the most important and most popular sports clubs of interwar Poland. After finishing his career, he became a referee, coach and sports official. To this day Kuchar is regarded as an excellent example of fair play. In 1926, in a poll held by the Polish sports daily ''Przegląd Sportowy'', Kuchar was chosen as the athlete of the year. A year later he came in 10th in the same poll. In 1924, at the Paris Olympic Games, he played on the Poland national football team. Club career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wacław Sieroszewski
Wacław Kajetan Sieroszewski (24 August 1858 – 20 April 1945) was a Polish writer, Polish Socialist Party activist, and soldier in the World War I-era Polish Legions (decorated with the Virtuti Militari). For activities subversive of the Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its establishment in November 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Republic in September 1917. At its height in the late 19th century, it covered about , roughl ..., he had spent many years in Siberian exile. Sieroszewski's Siberian experiences became the subjects of his many stories and novels—''Na kresach lasów'' (At the Edge of the Woods, 1894), ''Dno nędzy'' (The Depths of Misery, 1900), ''Risztau'' (1899), ''Ucieczka'' (The Escape, 1904), ''Zamorski diabeł'' (The Overseas Devil, 1900). He also authored the popular ''Bajki'' (Fables, 1910). His ''12 lat w kraju Jakutów'' (12 years in the Yakut country, 1900) provides the firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wacław Michał Zaleski
Wacław Michał Zaleski (8 September 1799 in Olesko, eastern Galicia – 24 February 1849 in Vienna), pseudonym ''Wacław from Olesko'' (), was a Polish nobleman, poet, writer, researcher of folklore, theatre critic, political activist, and governor of Galicia (1848). Galician landowner and deputy to the Parliament. His sons were Filip Zaleski - the governor of Galicia and the member of the Austrian House of Lords, and Antoni (1842-1866, writer) and Józef Mieczysław (1838-1899, cavalryman, later commander of the division and field marshal), married to Martyna Grabianszczanka from Ostapkowce. Zaleski collected and published in Lviv ''Pieśni polskie i ruskie ludu galicyjskiego'' (Polish and Russian songs of the Galician Nation; 1833), which contained about 1,500 works, including 160 with piano accompaniment composed by Karol Lipiński. It was the largest collection of folk songs published in Poland before Oskar Kolberg. Zaleski was an author of patriotic songs, paraphrases, tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wacław Seweryn Rzewuski
Wacław Seweryn Rzewuski (15 December 1784 – 14 May 1831) was a Polish explorer, poet, orientalism, orientalist and horse expert.T. Miciński: "Emir Rzewuski" Early life Wacław Rzewuski family, Rzewuski was born 15 December 1784 in Lvov, Lwów. He was the son of field Hetman Seweryn Rzewuski whose family held enormous estates in Ukraine, and Princess Konstancja Małgorzata Lubomirska of the influential Lubomirski family. His parents moved the family to Vienna after the Third Partition of Poland and he was educated at the elite Theresianum. In 1806 he married Alexandra Francis Rzewuska, Alexandra, another descendant of the Lubomirski family. He served in the Imperial and Royal Army during the Napoleonic Wars, Austrian army, fighting at Aspern-Essling in 1809, as a second lieutenant in the regiment of Hussars and was Military discharge#Commissioned officers, dismissed in 1811. During his time in Vienna, his relative, the famous traveler and adventurer, Jan Potocki, stirred hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wacław Kiełtyka
Wacław "Vogg" Kiełtyka (born 17 December 1981) is a Polish musician, best known as the guitarist of the death metal band Decapitated. In addition to Decapitated, Wacław has been the guitarist of Lux Occulta since 1998, as well as a former member of the Kraków group Sceptic. He also worked with the death metal band Vader. He is a graduate of musical school in the first and second degree, and attended the Academy of Music in Kraków as an accordionist. Kiełtyka auditioned for second guitarist of Morbid Angel after the departure of Erik Rutan in 2006. Before joining Vader in 2009, Kiełtyka was a music store salesman. He also worked as a guitar technician for the band Hypocrisy. From September 2019 to November 2023, Kiełtyka played the lead guitar in Machine Head. Instruments ;Guitars * Ibanez LA Custom Shop Destroyer with EMGs * Ibanez Iceman 7 String Custom (''Blood Mantra'', and live performances) * Ibanez Iceman 6 String Custom * Ibanez Apex 7 String * Ibanez RGD 7 St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wacław Leszczyński (other)
Wacław Leszczyński may refer to: * Wacław Leszczyński (1576–1628), voivode of Kalisz, chancellor * Wacław Leszczyński (1605–1666) , Prince-Bishop of Warmia, primate of Poland, see List of bishops of Warmia See also * Wacław {{hndis, Leszczyński, Wacław ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wacław Micuta
Wacław Micuta (pseudonym ''Wacek''; 6 December 1915, in Petrograd, Russia – 21 September 2008, in Geneva, Switzerland) was a Polish economist, World War II veteran, and United Nations functionary. He took part in the September 1939 defense of Poland and, in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, commanded one of two tanks that had been captured from the Germans. Life Micuta was born to a Polish ''Kresy'' family in Petrograd, Russia. He was the son of Leonard Micuta (1885-1916) and Wanda Pawłowicz (1880-1956). In 1922 his family moved to Poznań, in western Poland, where he completed secondary school and studied economics. He was also active in the scouting movement. He finished his military enlistment at Włodzimierz Wołyński, in eastern Poland, in the rank of second lieutenant. After completing his studies in June 1939, he became secretary to the Governor of Silesia Province, Michał Grażyński, but he held this position only briefly due to the outbreak of World War II. Mobil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
