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Zbigniew Kraszewski
Zbigniew () is a Polish masculine given name, originally Zbygniew . This West Slavic name is derived from the Polish elements ''Zby-'' (from ''zbyć, zbyć się, or pozbyć się'', meaning "to dispel", "to get rid of") and ''gniew'', meaning "anger". The Czech form of this name is Zbyněk (derived from Zbyhněv). English diminutives of this name are Zibi, Zbiggy or Zbig. Notable people * Zbigniew of Brzezia (c. 1360 – c. 1425), Polish knight and nobleman of Clan Zadora * Zbigniew of Poland, high duke of Poland from 1102–1106 A * Zbigniew Andruszkiewicz (born 1959), Polish rower B * Zbigniew Babiński (1896–1940), Polish military and sports aviator * Zbigniew Bargielski (born 1937), Polish composer * Zbigniew Baranowski (born 1991), Polish wrestler * Zbigniew Bartman (born 1987), Polish volleyball player * Zbigniew Beta (born 1953), Polish long jumper * Zbigniew Bieńkowski (1913–1994), Polish poet, literary critic, translator and essayist * Zbigniew Boniek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukraine to the east, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south, and Germany to the west. The territory has a varied landscape, diverse ecosystems, and a temperate climate. Poland is composed of Voivodeships of Poland, sixteen voivodeships and is the fifth most populous member state of the European Union (EU), with over 38 million people, and the List of European countries by area, fifth largest EU country by area, covering . The capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city is Warsaw; other major cities include Kraków, Wrocław, Łódź, Poznań, and Gdańsk. Prehistory and protohistory of Poland, Prehistoric human activity on Polish soil dates to the Lower Paleolithic, with continuous settlement since the end of the Last Gla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zbigniew Beta
Zbigniew Beta (born 2 July 1953) is a retired Polish long jumper. He won the bronze medal at the 1975 European Indoor Championships. He became Polish champion in 1973, and Polish indoor champion in 1975. His personal best jump was 7.77 metres, achieved in May 1974 in Warsaw. He had 7.82 metres on the indoor track, achieved in March 1975 in Katowice Katowice (, ) is the capital city of the Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland and the central city of the Katowice urban area. As of 2021, Katowice has an official population of 286,960, and a resident population estimate of around 315,000. K .... References 1953 births Living people Polish male long jumpers Athletes from Warsaw Polish Athletics Championships winners 20th-century Polish sportsmen {{Poland-longjump-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zbigniew Ciesielski
Zbigniew Ciesielski (Polish pronunciation: ; 1 October 1934 – 5 October 2020) was a Polish mathematician specializing in functional analysis and probability theory. He served as the President of the Polish Mathematical Society from 1981 to 1983. Education and career Ciesielski was born in Gdynia, Poland. He received in 1960 his doctorate from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan with dissertation ' (On orthogonal developments of almost all functions in Wiener space) under the supervision of Władysław Orlicz. He has been a professor at the Mathematical Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences since 1969 and a member of the Academy since 1973. In 1974 he was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Vancouver. He was President of the Polish Mathematical Society from 1981 to 1983. Ciesielski's main areas of research are functional analysis, in particular Schauder bases in Banach spaces, and probability theory, in particular the mathemat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zbigniew Chmielowiec
Zbigniew Michał Chmielowiec (born 22 September 1954 in Kolbuszowa) is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Polish lower house (Sejm) on 25 September 2005, getting 17243 votes in 23 Rzeszów district as a candidate from the Law and Justice Law and Justice ( , PiS) is a Right-wing populism, right-wing populist and National conservatism, national-conservative List of political parties in Poland, political party in Poland. The party is a member of European Conservatives and Refo ... list. References See also * Members of Polish Sejm 2005-2007 1954 births Living people People from Kolbuszowa Law and Justice politicians Members of the Polish Sejm 2005–2007 Members of the Polish Sejm 2007–2011 Members of the Polish Sejm 2011–2015 Members of the Polish Sejm 2015–2019 Members of the Polish Sejm 2019–2023 Members of the Polish Sejm 2023–2027 {{Poland-Sejm-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zbigniew Chlebowski
Zbigniew Chlebowski (born 8 March 1964 in Żarów) is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 18,281 votes in 2 Wałbrzych district as a candidate from the Civic Platform The Civic Platform (, PO)The party is officially the Civic Platform of the Republic of Poland (''Platforma Obywatelska Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej''). is a Centre-right politics, centre-right liberal conservative political party in Poland. Since ... list. He was also a member of Sejm 2001-2005. See also * Members of Polish Sejm 2005-2007 External linksZbigniew Chlebowski – parliamentary page– includes declarations of interest, voting record, and transcripts of speeches. 1964 births Living people People from Żarów Members of the Polish Sejm 2005–2007 Members of the Polish Sejm 2001–2005 Civic Platform politicians Members of the Polish Sejm 2007–2011 {{Poland-Sejm-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zbigniew Bzymek
Zbigniew Bzymek (born January 21, 1976) is a filmmaker, experimental theatre and music video artist who lives and works in New York City. He is best known for his film ''Utopians'', which premiered at The 61st Berlin International Film Festival and for winning the Grand Prix at the 31st Rencontres Henri Langlois. He has been called "a young filmmaker to follow" by Stéphane Delorme in the French film journal '' Cahiers du Cinéma''. In theatre, he has worked with Krystian Lupa and Elizabeth LeCompte and has been a longtime member of The Wooster Group. Background Bzymek was born in Warsaw, Poland and spent his early childhood with his family in Poland and later in Lund, Sweden. When he was eight years old, his family moved to Connecticut, after a two-year separation caused by Martial law in Poland. He lived with his family in Storrs, Connecticut, until he attended Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, from which he graduated '' cum laude,'' with a major in English and a minor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zbigniew Burzyński
Zbigniew Jan Władysław Antoni Burzyński (31 March 1902 in Zhovkva, near Lwów – 30 December 1971 in Warsaw), was a Polish balloonist and constructor of balloons, pioneer of Polish balloons, who twice won the Gordon Bennett Cup in ballooning, also beat the world record. Biography Zbigniew Burzyński was the son of Helena Jaźwiecka and Władysław Burzyński, a forestry engineer. Raised in a middle-class family, he attended high schools in Lwów, Vienna and Kraków, where he joined the Cadet Corps and in 1919 graduated. Then, he entered the Artillery School in Poznań, after this school, briefly serving in the 2nd Mountain Artillery Regiment in Nowy Targ. On 1 May 1921 Burzyński was sent to a course of aeronautic observers at the Officers' Aeronautic School in Toruń. He completed it with honors and remained there as a lecturer, where he was promoted to Second Lieutenant. He translated from French the handbook of the Lech (Zeppelin), first Polish zeppelin and participated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zbigniew Bujarski
Zbigniew Bujarski (21 August 1933 – 13 April 2018) was a Polish composer. Biography Bujarski was born on 21 August 1933 and died on 13 April 2018 in Kraków. He was born in Muszyna, Poland about 120 kilometres south-west of Kraków, and very close to the border with what is now Slovakia Slovakia, officially the Slovak Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the west, and the Czech Republic to the northwest. Slovakia's m ..., and studied composition at the State College of Music in Kraków with Stanisław Wiechowicz. He was awarded an honorary mention at the Young Polish Composers' Competition organized by the Polish Composers' Union in 1961, and three years later won 2nd Prize at the Grzegorz Fitelberg Composers' Competition. He went on to teach composition at the Academy of Music in Kraków. In 2011 Bujarski was awarded the Silver Medal of Medal for Merit to Cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zbigniew Bujak
Zbigniew Bujak (born 29 November 1954) is a former Polish activist and anti-Communist dissident. Biography Bujak was an electrician and foreman in 1980 at the Ursus Tractor Factory, Ursus tractor factory near Warsaw, Poland. He became engaged with trade union activists, and during the strike action, he organized strike committees at the Ursus factory. He became chairman of the Warsaw Solidarity (Polish trade union), Solidarity branch in September 1980 and was one of the few Solidarity leaders who escaped arrest in 1981 after martial law in Poland was declared to break Solidarity. He became one of the leaders of the Solidarity's underground movement, organizing underground committees including underground press and radio. He was finally arrested in 1986, becoming the last Solidarity leader to be captured. Soon afterwards, he was released in general amnesty, and participated in Polish Round Table Talks with the government in 1989. He was elected to the Sejm (Polish parliament) i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zbigniew Buczkowski
240px, Handprint & autograph of Z. Buczkowski in Stars Avenue in Międzyzdroje Zbigniew Buczkowski (born 20 March 1951 in Warsaw) is a Polish film actor and entertainer. Biography He is a son of Marian Buczkowski, a pilot at LOT Polish Airlines who died in a plane crash in 1951. He lived next door to a film studio where his neighbor worked as a film extra. With her help at the age of twelve he gained his first appearance as an extra in a film. In 1970 he graduated from the Technical School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering in Warsaw. By chance Janusz Kondratiuk cast him in his film ''Dziewczyny do wzięcia'' in 1972. After being cast in the film, Buczkowski decided to drop his profession and devote himself to acting. He attempted to get into an acting school, but was unsuccessful. On 17 December 1983 he made his debut on the stage of the Comedy Theatre in Warsaw, in the play ''Koniec ery menelików'' directed by Janusz Kondratiuk and written by Andrzej Kondrat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zbigniew Brzeziński
Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzeziński (, ; March 28, 1928 – May 26, 2017), known as Zbig, was a Polish-American diplomat and political scientist. He served as a counselor to Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966 to 1968 and was Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor from 1977 to 1981. As a scholar, Brzezinski belonged to the realist school of international relations, standing in the geopolitical tradition of Halford Mackinder and Nicholas J. Spykman, while elements of liberal idealism have also been identified in his outlook. Brzezinski was the primary organizer of The Trilateral Commission. Sklar, Holly. "Founding the Trilateral Commission: Chronology 1970–1977". ''Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management''. Boston: South End Press, 1980. 604 pagesExcerpts available Major foreign policy events during his time in office included the normalization of relations with the People's Republic of China (and the severing of ties with the Republic of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zbigniew Bródka
Zbigniew Marcin Bródka (; born 8 October 1984) is a Polish Speed skating, speed skater and a Speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Men's 1500 metres, 2014 Olympic champion in 1500 metres. He also works as a firefighter in the State Fire Service station in Łowicz. Personal life Bródka was born in Głowno, Poland, on 8 October 1984. Since 2009, he has worked as a firefighter in the State Fire Service () station in Łowicz. He represents a local sports club, UKS Błyskawica Domaniewice. He is married to Agnieszka and has two daughters - Gabriela and Amelia. Competitive career Before becoming a speed skating, long track speed skater, Bródka competed in middle-distance running and short track speed skating, short track. He often trains in Germany, as Poland lacks appropriate facilities for long track speed skating. When he trains in Poland, Bródka is forced to improvise, including using roller skates to imitate ice skating movements. In 2006, an accident prevented him f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
