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Wierzbięta
Wierzbięta or Wirzbięta is a Polish-language name and surname derived as a diminutive of the name Wierzba. '' Histmag'', May 16, 2006 Notable people with this surname include: Notable people with this name or surname include: * Maciej Wirzbięta
Maciej Wirzbięta (alternatively ''Wierzbięta''; (b. 1523 Kraków, d. June 1605) – Polish printer, translator and bookseller based Kraków. He printed the works of Mikołaj Rej, Jan Kochanowski, Łukasz Górnicki, and Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski, ... (alternatively Wierzbięta; (b. 1523 Kraków, d. June 1605) ...
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Wierzbięta Z Ruszczy
Wierzbięta or Wirzbięta is a Polish-language name and surname derived as a diminutive of the name Wierzba. '''', May 16, 2006 Notable people with this surname include: Notable people with this name or surname include: * Maciej Wirzbięta
Maciej Wirzbięta (alternatively ''Wierzbięta''; (b. 1523 Kraków, d. June 1605) – Polish printer, translator and bookseller based Kraków. He printed the works of Mikołaj Rej, Jan Kochanowski, Łukasz Górnicki, and Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski, ... (alternatively Wierzbięta; ( ...
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Maciej Wirzbięta
Maciej Wirzbięta (alternatively ''Wierzbięta''; (b. 1523 Kraków, d. June 1605) – Polish printer, translator and bookseller based Kraków. He printed the works of Mikołaj Rej, Jan Kochanowski, Łukasz Górnicki, and Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski, among others. Biography Maciej Wirzbięta was born in 1523 to a Kraków burgher family. He most likely learned the art of printing from Florian Ungler, whose printing office he managed for his wife Helena Ungler after Florian's death in 1536. In 1544 he acquired a house with a printing office near Sławkowska Street and outfitted the office with equipment bought from the widow of the Bernard Wojewodka, printer of the Brest Bible. It's possible that there was a connection between the death in 1554 of Jakub Przyłuski and Wirzbięta establishing his printing office. Wirzbięta converted from Catholicism to Calvinism and subsequently printed predominantly Protestant works. Twice married, he died in June 1605. Works He printed the majo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Voivodes Of Kraków
The List of voivodes of Kraków includes the positions in both Kraków Land (''ziemia krakówska'') and Kraków Voivodeship (14th century – 1795), Krakow Voivodeship * Skarbimir, Skarbimir (Skarbek) * Klemens (wojewoda krakowski), Klemens 1123-1168 * Mikołaj Gryfita ?-1202 * Marek z Brzeźnicy 1176-? 1226 * Teodor Gryfita ?-1237 * Włodzimierz of Cracow 1191-1241 * Klement of Ruszcza ?-1256 * Klemens Latoszyński 1213-1265 * Sulisław z Branic 1232-1283 * Piotr Bogoria 1240-1290 * Mikołaj Łagiewnicki 1245-1290 * Wierzbięta z Ruszczy 1246-1324 * Tomisław Mokrski 1276-1326 * Mikołaj Bogoria 1291-1346 * Andrzej (wojewoda krakowski), Andrzej 1309-1354 * Mścigniew Czelej 1298-1357 * Imram 1312-1357 * Andrzej z Tęczyna, Andrzej Tęczyński 1318-1368 * Dobiesław Kurozwęcki 1306-1397 * Spytko II of Melsztyn 1351-1399 * Jan z Tarnowa przed 1349-1409 * Piotr Kmita (zm. 1409), Piotr Kmita 1348-1409 * Jan Tarnowski (wojewoda krakowski), Jan Tarnowsk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krotoszyn
Krotoszyn (german: Krotoschin, yi, קראטאשין ''Krotoshin'') is a town in west-central Poland with 30,010 inhabitants . It has been part of the Greater Poland Voivodeship since 1999; it was within Kalisz Voivodeship from 1975 to 1998. History Krotoszyn was founded by local nobleman , participant of the Battle of Grunwald, and was granted town rights in 1415 by King Władysław II Jagiełło. It was a private town owned by the Krotoski, Niewieski, Rozdrażewski and Potocki families, historically located in the Kalisz Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Polish Crown. After the town suffered a fire in 1453, King Casimir IV of Poland vested it with new privileges, establishing a weekly market and three annual fairs. It developed as a regional center of trade and crafts, located at the intersection of the Kalisz–Głogów and Toruń–Wrocław trade routes. During the Thirty Years' War, in 1628, Protestant refugees from German states settled in the town. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Histmag
Histmag is a Polish web portal dedicated to history. It was founded in 2001. Histmag has published over 5,000 articles, most of which are available online for free. Notable writers included professors Maciej Bernhardt and Artur Kijas. In March 2009 Histmag reported over 100,000 different readers. In 2008 Histmag was visited by 675,000 different people who accessed over 2,500,000 different pages on the portal. The portal is also engaged in various activities aiming to popularize history. In 2009 it sponsored the publication of a book.. Modelling themselves on the efforts of the Canadian writer Yann Martel to fight against the growing indifference of politicians towards literature by sending books to Stephen Harper, in 2011, they began the „Polećmy książki premierowi” (Let's Recommend books for the Prime Minister) in which readers could choose books which would be given to Donald Tusk by Michał Świgon, the erstwhile editor, during a book fair in Warsaw in May of that ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
