Sielecki (plural: Sieleccy, feminine form: Sielecka) is a Polish

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, also of one of the noble (''

szlachta The ''szlachta'' (Polish: endonym, Lithuanian: šlėkta) were the noble estate of the realm in the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth who, as a class, had the dominating position in the ...

'') families. It is derived from the village of Sielec, of which many exist with that name in Poland, Ukraine and Belarus. As is typical with Polish surnames, if noble families exist with the same family name but are not related to each other, a coat of arms was assigned to them in order to differentiate between each other. A person with the surname Sielecki does therefore not necessarily have to be related to each other or even be noble. The Sielecki family from Sielec, Drohobych Raion were Eastern Catholics of the Byzantine rite, as well as Roman catholic, while there are other Sieleckis who are Jewish from places such as Lithuania and Belarus, many of whom live in Argentina and South America today.

Skrebeciowicz de Sielecki

Around 1650 King John II Casimir awarded the

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Skrebeciowicz one half of the estate of Sielec, Drohobych Raion, as well as the right to bear the Sas coat of arms for his loyal services to the crown during the

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. After the Austrian partition of southern Poland in 1772, the Skrebeciowicz de Sielecki family's noble status was reaffirmed by the Habsburg emperor in Vienna who gave the hereditary title of '' Ritter'' (Knight). Members of the family were either Greek or Roman Catholic.

Notable members

Cyril Sielecki Kyrylo Seletskyi (ukr. Кирило Селецький, pol. ''Cyril Sielecki'' (29 April 1835 28 April 1918), was a Ukrainians, Ukrainian priest of the Greek Catholic Diocese of Przemyśl, and an educational and social activist. He was the fou ...

(1835–1918), Greek catholic clergyman and social activist, papal chamberlain and

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, Knight of the Order of Franz Joseph * Johann Ritter von Sielecki (late 18th century–mid 19th century), Greek catholic

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at the diocese

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and vice-director of the local gymnasium, Knight of the Order of the Iron Crown * Leon Ritter von Sielecki (fell in

Tyrawa Wołoska Tyrawa Wołoska ( uk, Тирява Волоська, ''Tyriava Volos’ka''; la, Tyravia minori, ''Thyrawa Walaska'') is a village in East Małopolska in the Lesser Beskid mountains of Poland. The community is about from Rzeszów, in south ...

on May 12, 1915), lieutenant of the Imperial and Royal Uhlan Regiment Nr. 13 * Klemens Stefan Sielecki (1903–1980), engineer and technical director of Fablok locomotives company, Knight of the Order of Polonia Restituta * Manuel Sielecki (1909–1998), Polish-born

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entrepreneur and

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* Hubert Sielecki (b. 1946), Austrian artist, recipient of the Theodor Körner Prize 1982 and winner of the '' Diagonale'' short film price 1995 * Robert Sielecki (b. 1958),

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n geologist and entrepreneur, discoverer of the mineral Sieleckiite * Christof Sielecki (b. 1974), German chess player

References

External links

Sielec
in Geographical Encyclopedia of the Kingdom of Poland, pg. 530–531, Volume X, 1889.
Sielecki family
in ShtetLinks, 2009. {{surname Polish noble families Polish Jewish families de:Sielecki