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Ziółkowski (feminine Ziółkowska, plural Ziółkowscy) is a Polish surname. It may refer to: * Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm (born 1949), Polish author * Andrew Ziolkowski (1963–1994), Australian politician * Fabrice Ziolkowski (born 1954), French-American screenwriter, director, producer, and voice director * Jan M. Ziolkowski (born 1956), American linguist and philosopher * Janusz Ziółkowski (1924–2000), Polish sociologist * Jim Ziolkowski, American businessman * Korczak Ziolkowski (1908–1982), Polish-American designer and sculptor *Marek Ziółkowski (born 1955), Polish diplomat * Richard W. Ziolkowski, American scientist and engineer * Ruth Ziolkowski (1926–2014), American director of Crazy Horse Memorial * Szymon Ziółkowski (born 1976), Polish hammer thrower * Theodore Ziolkowski Theodore Ziolkowski (September 30, 1932 – December 5, 2020) was a scholar in the fields of German studies and comparative literature. He coined the term " fifth gospel genre". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm
Alexandra () is the feminine form of the given name Alexander (, ). Etymologically, the name is a compound of the Greek verb (; meaning 'to defend') and (; GEN , ; meaning 'man'). Thus it may be roughly translated as "defender of man" or "protector of man". The name Alexandra was one of the epithets given to the Greek goddess Hera and as such is usually taken to mean "one who comes to save warriors". The earliest attested form of the name is the Mycenaean Greek ( or //), written in the Linear B syllabic script.Tablet MY V 659 (61). Alexandra and its masculine equivalent, Alexander, are both common names in Greece as well as countries where Germanic, Romance, and Slavic languages are spoken. Variants * Alejandra, Alejandrina (diminutive) (Spanish) * Aleksandra (Александра) (Albanian, Bulgarian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian) * Alessandra (Italian) * Alessia (Italian) * Alex (various languages) * Alexa (English, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Ziolkowski
Andrew Charles Frederick Ziolkowski (12 December 1963 – 12 April 1994) was an Australian politician. He served as a Labor Party Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1991 until his death in 1994, representing the electoral district of Parramatta. He was one of three New South Wales MPs to die that year, with John Newman (47) dying close before and Tony Doyle (41) following soon after. He was succeeded in office by his wife, Gabrielle Harrison. Private life Ziolkowski was born in Forbes, New South Wales, the son of Wladyslaw Ziolkowski - a Polish immigrant - and his wife Roma Ziolkowski. He moved to Parramatta, in western Sydney, as a child. He grew up in Parramatta, and attended St Patrick's Primary School and Parramatta Marist High School. Early years After finishing school he worked as a Process Worker for Alcan in Granville and as a Steelworks Tradesman's Assistant for BHP in Wollongong. Ziolkowski's political career began as a result of his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabrice Ziolkowski
Fabrice Ziolkowski (born January 28, 1954) is a French-American screenwriter, director, producer, and voice director, best known for scripting the Oscars, Oscar-nominated feature animation film ''The Secret of Kells'', writing the animated television series ''Gawayn'', and directing and producing the avant-garde documentary film ''L.A.X.''. Background Fabrice Ziolkowski was born on January 28, 1954, in Charleville-Mézières, France. His family emigrated, first to Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, then to the United States. He studied at the Brooks Institute of Photography, received a BA and MA in film and literature from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and did doctoral work at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Career Ziolkowski started his career as a member of the Lumina film group which included experimental filmmaker MM Serra. He is foremost a screenwriter (and book writer), but has also directed and produced films. Since the 2000s, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan M
Jan, JaN or JAN may refer to: Acronyms * Jackson, Mississippi (Amtrak station), US, Amtrak station code JAN * Jackson-Evers International Airport, Mississippi, US, IATA code * Jabhat al-Nusra (JaN), a Syrian militant group * Japanese Article Number, a barcode standard compatible with EAN * Japanese Accepted Name, a Japanese nonproprietary drug name * Job Accommodation Network, US, for people with disabilities * ''Joint Army-Navy'', US standards for electronic color codes, etc. * ''Journal of Advanced Nursing'' Personal name * Jan (name), male variant of ''John'', female shortened form of ''Janet'' and ''Janice'' * Jan (Persian name), Persian word meaning 'life', 'soul', 'dear'; also used as a name * Ran (surname), romanized from Mandarin as Jan in Wade–Giles * Ján, Slovak name Other uses * January, as an abbreviation for the first month of the year in the Gregorian calendar * Jan (cards), a term in some card games when a player loses without taking any tricks or scoring a min ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janusz Ziółkowski
Janusz Aleksander Ziółkowski (6 April 1924, in Sosnowiec – 5 April 2000) was a Polish sociologist and politician. He was a professor of sociology at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, and briefly (in 1981) its rector. He was a Solidarity activist and participated in the Polish Round Table Agreement. He was elected a senator A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ... (1989–1991), and from 1991 to 1995 he was the Chief of The Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland. 1924 births 2000 deaths People from Sosnowiec Polish sociologists Solidarity (Polish trade union) activists Members of the Senate of Poland 1989–1991 {{Poland-sociologist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Ziolkowski
Jim Ziolkowski is the founder, president and CEO of buildOn, an international nonprofit organization that runs youth service learning programs in urban U.S. high schools and constructs schools and promotes literacy in developing countries. He is the best-selling author of “Walk in Their Shoes: Can One Person Change the World?” Early life Ziolkowski was raised in Jackson, Michigan. He grew up in a Roman Catholic family and has credited his faith with influencing his later humanitarian work. In 1989, Ziolkowski graduated cum laude from Michigan State University with a bachelor's degree in Finance. Ziolkowski spent a significant part of the next year traveling the world and witnessing extreme poverty and the suffering caused by it. While backpacking in Nepal, he came upon an isolated village celebrating the opening of a new school. Ziolkowski credited the hope he witnessed in this community from increased access to education as an experience that led him to later found build ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korczak Ziolkowski
Korczak Ziolkowski ( pl, Korczak Ziółkowski; September 6, 1908 – October 20, 1982) was the Polish-American designer and sculptor of the Crazy Horse Memorial. Early life Ziolkowski was born September 6, 1908, in Boston to Polish parents. Orphaned at the age of one when both his parents died in a boating accident, he grew up in a series of foster homes, and was raised by an Irish boxer. Although he never received any formal art training, his gifts as a sculptor began to show at an early age. After putting himself through Rindge Technical School, he became an apprentice to a Boston ship maker. He began to carve wood and by the age of 20 had become an accomplished furniture maker. His first marble sculpture, made in 1932, honored Judge Frederick Pickering Cabot, who had inspired him as a child growing up in the rough neighborhoods of Boston. Ziolkowski moved to New Britain, Connecticut, to begin life as a professional artist. He began to sell commissioned sculptures throughou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marek Ziółkowski
Marek Ziółkowski (born 1955 in Kętrzyn) is a Polish diplomat, ambassador of Poland to Ukraine (2001–2005), Kenya (2012–2015), and NATO (2017–2019). Life Marek Ziółkowski has graduated from philosophy at the University of Warsaw. He was working in the tourism industry. In 1991 he joined the diplomatic service. He was deputy head of the Polish Consulate-General and Embassy in Mińsk until 1996. From 1997 to 2001 he was the deputy director and director of the Department of Eastern Europe at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He served as an ambassador to Ukraine (2001–2005). From 2006 to 2008 he was the deputy director of the Security Policy Department, and then the director of the MFA Department of Development Cooperation (2008–2011). Later, he was Poland ambassador to Kenya, responsible also for the relations with UN-HABITAT, Burundi, Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Rwanda Rwanda (; rw, u Rwanda ), officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard W
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong in rule'. Nicknames include "Richie", "Dick", "Dickon", " Dickie", "Rich", "Rick", "Rico", "Ricky", and more. Richard is a common English, German and French male name. It's also used in many more languages, particularly Germanic, such as Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch, as well as other languages including Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Finnish. Richard is cognate with variants of the name in other European languages, such as the Swedish "Rickard", the Catalan "Ricard" and the Italian "Riccardo", among others (see comprehensive variant list below). People named Richard Multiple people with the same name * Richard Andersen (other) * Richard Anderson (other) * Richard Cartwright (other) * Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Ziolkowski
Ruth Carolyn Ziolkowski (née Ross; June 26, 1926 – May 21, 2014) was an American executive and CEO of the Crazy Horse Memorial, a South Dakota monument dedicated to Crazy Horse which was designed by her late husband, Korczak Ziolkowski. Ruth Ziolkowski took over the responsibility for the construction of the monument following the death of her husband in 1982. Korczak Ziolkowski had been focusing on the completion of Crazy Horse's horse at the time of his death. Ruth Ziolkowski changed course, ordering that Crazy Horse's face be completed instead. She hoped that the monument would become a tourist magnet once his 87.5-foot face was finished, providing needed funding for the project. Her prediction proved correct upon the face's completion in 1998 and the statue quickly became one of South Dakota's top tourist attractions. She oversaw the growth, expansion and progress at the Crazy Horse Memorial from the 1980s to the 2010s. Biography Early life She was born Ruth Ross to Fran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Szymon Ziółkowski
Szymon Jerzy Ziółkowski (; born 1 July 1976 in Poznań) is a retired Poland, Polish hammer thrower and an Olympic Games, Olympic gold medal winner from 2000 Summer Olympics, Sydney 2000. He also won a gold medal at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics, 2001 World Championships in Edmonton with a career best throw of 83.38 metres, and two silvers at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics, 2005 and 2009 World Championships in Athletics, 2009 editions in Helsinki and Berlin respectively. Career Before winning the 2000 Olympic gold medal he had won the gold medal at the 1994 World Junior Championships in Athletics, 1994 World Junior Championships, finished tenth at the Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics - Men's hammer throw, 1996 Olympic Games and fifth at the 1998 European Championships in Athletics, 1998 European Championships and competed at the 1995 World Championships in Athletics, 1995 and 1999 World Championships in Athletics, 1999 World Championships without rea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodore Ziolkowski
Theodore Ziolkowski (September 30, 1932 – December 5, 2020) was a scholar in the fields of German studies and comparative literature. He coined the term " fifth gospel genre". Early life Theodore J. Ziolkowski was born on September 30, 1932 in Birmingham, Alabama to Cecilia (née Jankowski) and Mieczysław Ziółkowski, second-generation and first-generation Polish immigrants to the United States. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Duke University in 1951, a Master of Arts from Duke University in 1952 and, following studies at the University of Innsbruck on a Fulbright Fellowship, his Ph.D from Yale University in 1957. Personal life Ziolkowski married Yetta Goldstein in 1951. Together they had two sons, Jan and Eric. Career Following appointments at Yale and Columbia, he was called to Princeton University as professor of German in 1964. In 1969 he was appointed Class of 1900 Professor of German and Comparative Literature and, from 1979 to 1992, Dean of the Graduate School ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
