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Zygmunt Abrahamowicz
Zygmunt, Zigmunt, Zigmund and spelling variations thereof are masculine given names and occasionally surnames. People so named include: Given name Medieval period * Sigismund I the Old (1467–1548), Zygmunt I Stary in Polish, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania * Sigismund II Augustus (1520–1572), Zygmunt II August in Polish, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, only son of Sigismund I * Sigismund III Vasa (1566–1632), Zygmunt III Waza in Polish, King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, monarch of the united Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and King of Sweden * Zygmunt Grudziński (1560–1618), Polish nobleman, ''voivode'' (ruler) of Rawa * Zygmunt Grudziński (1568–1653), Polish nobleman, ''voivode'' of Innowrocław and Kalisz * Zygmunt Przyjemski of Rawicz (died 1652), Polish military commander * Zygmunt Kazanowski (1563–1634), Polish nobleman, soldier and magnate in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth * Zygmunt Tarło (c. 1561 or 1562–1628), Polish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigismund I The Old
Sigismund I the Old ( pl, Zygmunt I Stary, lt, Žygimantas II Senasis; 1 January 1467 – 1 April 1548) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1506 until his death in 1548. Sigismund I was a member of the Jagiellonian dynasty, the son of Casimir IV and younger brother of Kings John I Albert and Alexander I Jagiellon. He was nicknamed "the Old" in later historiography to distinguish him from his son and successor, Sigismund II Augustus. Sigismund was born in the town of Kozienice in 1467 as the fifth son of Casimir IV and his wife Elizabeth of Austria. He was one of thirteen children and was not expected to assume the throne after his father. Sigismund's eldest brother and rightful heir Vladislaus II instead became the King of Bohemia, Hungary and Croatia as the successor to George of Poděbrady in Bohemia and then to Matthias Corvinus in Hungary, thus temporarily uniting these kingdoms. When Casimir died, the Polish-Lithuanian realm was divided between the rem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zygmunt Witymir Bieńkowski
Zygmunt Witymir Bieńkowski (2 May 1913 Warsaw – 15 August 1979) was a Polish pilot and a writer of many articles and poems. His 303 squadron diary is held in the Polish Museum and Sikorski Institute in London. Zygmunt Witymir Bieńkowski was the son of Leopold Bieńkowski (1883–1942) and Zofia Braun (1891–1943). His father was a Polish Member of Parliament from 1922 to 1928. Both his parents died in Soviet Gulag camps. Trained as a pilot at Polish Air Force Academy in Dęblin, he did not fight in Poland in 1939, but was evacuated westwards, escaped to Romania, then to France and on 27 June 1940 arrived in England. During the Battle of Britain, he served with 55 OTU in Aston Down. In May 1941, he joined No. 245 Squadron. In July 1941, he was transferred to No. 303 Squadron, based at Northolt. On 6 November 1941, Bieńkowski claimed a Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter shot down. On 12 April 1942, his aircraft was shot up by a Focke-Wulf Fw 190, and he had to force land wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zygmunt Frankiewicz
Zygmunt Frankiewicz (born 19 June 1955) is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Senate of Poland The Senate ( pl, Senat) is the upper house of the Polish parliament, the lower house being the Sejm. The history of the Polish Senate stretches back over 500 years; it was one of the first constituent bodies of a bicameral parliament in Europ ... (10th term) representing the constituency of Katowice. References Living people 1955 births Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Polish politicians 21st-century Polish politicians Members of the Senate of Poland 2019–2023 {{Poland-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński
Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński (1 November 1822 in Voiutyn, now Ukraine – 17 September 1895 in Kraków) was a professor of the Saint Petersburg Roman Catholic Theological Academy, Archbishop of Warsaw in 1862-1883 (exiled by Tsar Alexander II to Yaroslavl for 20 years),and founder of the Franciscan Sisters of the Family of Mary. He was canonised on 11 October 2009 by Pope Benedict XVI. Early life His parents were Gerard Feliński and Eva Wenderoff. He was born in Voiutyn (pol. Wojutyn) in Volhynia (present-day Ukraine) when it was part of the Russian empire. He was the third of six children, of whom two died at an early age. His father died when he was eleven years old. Five years later in 1838 his mother was exiled to Siberia for a nationalist conspiracy (in which she tried to work to improve the social and economic conditions of the farmers), as a result he only got to see her again as a university student. After completing high school, he studied mathematics at the Universit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zygmunt Czyżewski
Zygmunt Czyżewski (4 October 1910 – 17 January 1998) was a Polish former ice hockey and football player and football manager. Football Czyżewski began his football career with Czarni Lwów, with whom he his known to have spent his five seasons with playing in the I liga. During his time with Czarni, Czyżewski played at least 59 times scoring 2 goals. During the war it is known that Czyżewski had two spells with Dinamo Lviv, but did not play football professionally again until 1945. It after the expulsion of Poles from Lwów, which became known as Lviv after the war when he joined many people from Lviv moving to Gdańsk and played for the newly created football team which became Lechia Gdańsk. At Lechia he had the role of player/manager, being Lechia's first ever manager, where he played 4 games scoring 2 goals, and won the league being promoted from to the second tier. After Lechia he joined ŁKS Łódź where he is known to have played for three seasons. After his play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zygmunt Czerny
Zygmunt Bronisław Czerny (24 July 1888 – 18 February 1975) was a Polish romance philologist who specialized in the French language. Before World War II, he was a faculty member at the Lviv University and Academy of Foreign Trade in Lwów. During World War II, he was engaged in the underground education in Poland. After the war, he briefly worked at the Adam Mickiewicz University and University of Wrocław, was one of the initial faculty involved in the creation of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, and finally, from 1952, he was a faculty member of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Selected works * L'esthétique de Louis-Claude De Saint Martin (1920) * Współczesna wymowa francuska (1920) * O nowy podział materiału neofilologicznego wobec wprowadzenia 8-letniego kursu nauki (1930) * O nowy ustrój szkół akademickich (1933) * Les aventures de Polo: premier livre de français pour la première classe des écoles secondaires (1934, with Feliks Jungman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zygmunt Chychła
Zygmunt Chychła (5 November 1926 – 26 September 2009) was a Polish boxer. He won the first post-World War II Olympic gold medal for Poland. Career In 1939 he began training at the Polish boxing club '' Gedania'', having started boxing at the age 12. During the war he lost his Gdańsk citizenship and was compulsorily conscripted into the Wehrmacht in 1944. In France he deserted and joined the 2nd Polish Army, led by general Władysław Anders, in Italy. He returned to Poland in 1946. In 1947, he made his debut with the national boxing team of Poland, led by famous coach Feliks Stamm. He started at the 1948 London Olympic Games and reached the quarterfinal. In 1951 he won the European Amateur Boxing Championships in Milan. He was chosen the best Polish Sportspersonality of the Year in a Plebiscite of the ''Sport Review''. Chychła won the gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki beating in the final a representative of the Soviet Union, Sergei Scherbakov. On the way ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zygmunt Chruściński
Zygmunt Chruściński (17 February 1899 – 29 June 1952) was a Polish footballer. He played in nine matches for the Poland national football team The Poland national football team ( pl, Reprezentacja Polski w piłce nożnej) has represented Poland in men's international tournaments football competitions since their first match in 1921. The team is controlled by the Polish Football Assoc ... from 1924 to 1932. References External links * 1899 births 1952 deaths Polish footballers Poland international footballers Footballers from Kraków Association football midfielders MKS Cracovia (football) players {{Poland-footy-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zygmunt Choreń
Zygmunt Choreń (born 1941) is a Polish naval architect and the proprietor of the naval architectural firm Choreń Design and Consulting. He is a graduate of the Gdańsk University of Technology and the Leningrad Ship-Building Institute. He was a crewmember in the Whitbread Round The World Race 1973-74 on the boat Otago. List of ships List ships that have been designed or redesigned by Choreń: *1980 – '' STS Pogoria'' *1982 – ''Dar Młodzieży'' *1982 – '' ORP Iskra II (1982)'' *1984 – '' STV Kaliakra'' *1985 – '' RV Oceania'' *1987 – ''Druzhba'' *1987 – ''STS Mir'' *1988 – ''Alexander von Humboldt'' *1989 – '' Khersones'' *1989 – ''Pallada'' *1991 – ''Nadezhda'' *1991 – '' STS Fryderyk Chopin'' *1991 – ''STS Kaisei'' *1995 – ''Estelle'' *2000 – '' SV Royal Clipper'' *2002 – ''Mephisto'' *2008 – ''Petit Prince'' *2010 – Running On Waves *2015 – STS Lê Quý Dôn *2017 – El-Mellah *2017 – Golden Horizon See also *Naval architecture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zygmunt Chmielewski
Zygmunt Chmielewski (16 May 1894 – 26 May 1978) was a Polish film actor. He appeared in 35 films between 1921 and 1960. Selected filmography * '' His Excellency, The Shop Assistant'' (1933) * ''Czy Lucyna to dziewczyna ?'' (1934) * '' Córka generała Pankratowa'' (1934) * '' Barbara Radziwiłłówna'' (1936) * ''Pan Twardowski'' (1936) * ''Trędowata'' (1936) * '' Wierna rzeka'' (1936) * ''Ordynat Michorowski'' (1937) * '' Nikodem Dyzma'' (1956) * ''Kapelusz pana Anatola'' (1957) * ''Inspekcja pana Anatola'' (1959) References External links * 1894 births 1978 deaths Polish male film actors Polish male silent film actors Polish male stage actors Recipients of the Order of Polonia Restituta Actors from Odesa 20th-century Polish male actors {{Poland-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zygmunt Buhl
Zygmunt Buhl (24 January 1927 – 28 September 1978) was a Polish sprinter. He competed in the men's 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin .... References 1927 births 1978 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1952 Summer Olympics Polish male sprinters Olympic athletes of Poland Place of birth missing 20th-century Polish people {{Poland-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zygmunt Bohusz-Szyszko
Zygmunt Piotr Bohusz-Szyszko (1893 in Chełm – 1982 in London) was a Polish general. During World War I he served in the Imperial Russian army. In 1940, he was Commanding Officer Polish Independent Highland Brigade (''Samodzielna Brygada Strzelcow Podhalanskich'') during the Battle of Narvik in the Norwegian campaign. The forces under his command succeeded in capturing the Ankenes peninsula during May 1940. Career * -1931 Commanding Officer 58th Regiment * 1931-1934 Commanding Border Defence Regiment Głębokie * 1934-1938 Deputy General Officer Commanding Border Defence Corps * 1938-1939 Commanding Officer Infantry 1st Division * 1939 Commanding Officer Infantry 16th Division * 1939-1940 Commanding Officer 1st Mountain Brigade, Norway * 1941-1942 Head Polish Military Mission Moscow * 1941-1943 Chief of Staff Polish Forces in Soviet Union * 1942 General Officer Commanding 5th Division, Soviet Union * 1943-1945 Deputy General Officer Commanding II Polish Corps, Italy * 1945-194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
