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Wanda Piłsudska (7 February 1918
– 16 January 2001) was a daughter of
Józef Piłsudski
), Vilna Governorate, Russian Empire (now Lithuania)
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, and a
psychiatrist
A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in psychiatry, the branch of medicine devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, study, and treatment of mental disorders. Psychiatrists are physicians and evaluate patients to determine whether their sy ...
by profession.
Life
Wanda Piłsudska, of the
Piłsudski coat of arms
Piłsudski is a Polish heraldry, Polish coat of arms. The Piłsudski family, whom belonged to the Szlachta, Polish nobility (szlachta), used it.
History
Blazon
The Coat of arms of Piłsudski is a variation of the Coat of arms of Kościesz ...
, was the elder daughter of
Józef Piłsudski
), Vilna Governorate, Russian Empire (now Lithuania)
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, death_place = Warsaw, Poland
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, party = None (formerly PPS)
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and
Aleksandra Szczerbińska. She spent her youth mainly in
Warsaw
Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...
, living with her family at the
Belweder Palace
Belweder (; from the Italian ''belvedere'', "beautiful view") is a neoclassical palace in Warsaw, Poland. Erected in 1660 and remodelled in the early 1800s, it is one of several official residences used by Polish presidents as well as a state ...
, and in
Sulejówek
Sulejówek is a town in Poland, about 18 km east of Warsaw city centre and part of its metropolitan area. It is located in Masovian Voivodeship, in Mińsk County. Its population numbers 19323 (2011).
The town is well known in Poland as t ...
at the cottage of ''Milusin'', which Piłsudski had received as a gift from his soldiers.
In September 1939, together with her mother and younger sister
Jadwiga Piłsudska
Jadwiga Piłsudska-Jaraczewska (; 28 February 1920 – 16 November 2014) was a Polish pilot, who served in the Air Transport Auxiliary during the Second World War. She was one of two daughters of Józef Piłsudski.
Life and career
Piłsudska ...
, Wanda was evacuated by special aeroplane via
Sweden
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to the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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. She studied
medicine
Medicine is the science and practice of caring for a patient, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care pract ...
in
Edinburgh
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, then practiced
psychiatry
Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders. These include various maladaptations related to mood, behaviour, cognition, and perceptions. See glossary of psychiatry.
Initial psych ...
at a
Polish
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* Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe
* Polish language
* Poles, people from Poland or of Polish descent
* Polish chicken
*Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin screenwr ...
hospital
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outside
London
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. She also worked with the
Józef Piłsudski Institute in London.
In the autumn of 1990, Wanda returned for good to Poland. In November 2000 she regained the family cottage in Sulejówek, where she planned to create a museum dedicated to her father, Józef Piłsudski.
Wanda Piłsudska died, after a protracted illness, in
Warsaw
Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...
on 16 January 2001.
She willed her entire estate for the establishment of a museum honouring Józef Piłsudski.
See also
*
Józef Piłsudski
), Vilna Governorate, Russian Empire (now Lithuania)
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*
Bronisław Piłsudski
Bronisław Piotr Piłsudski (; ; 2 November 1866 – 17 May 1918) was an ethnologist, who researched the Ainu people after he was exiled by the Tsar Alexander III of Russia to the Far East. Piłsudski pioneered research into Lithuanian cro ...
(1866–1918)
*
Jadwiga Piłsudska
Jadwiga Piłsudska-Jaraczewska (; 28 February 1920 – 16 November 2014) was a Polish pilot, who served in the Air Transport Auxiliary during the Second World War. She was one of two daughters of Józef Piłsudski.
Life and career
Piłsudska ...
*
Piłsudski (family)
*''
Kasztanka
''Kasztanka'' (; Polish language, Polish for "chestnut mare"; born 1909 or 1910, died November 23, 1927) was the famous mare that belonged to Second Polish Republic, interwar Poland's leader, Marshal Józef Piłsudski.
Life
''Kasztanka'' is the ...
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References
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1918 births
2001 deaths
Physicians from Warsaw
Józef Piłsudski
Polish women psychiatrists
Polish psychiatrists
20th-century Polish women physicians
Women physicians
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Children of prime ministers