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Anna Myszyńska
Anna Elżbieta Myszyńska (); ; 30 June 1931 – 30 September 2019) was a Silesian writer, photographer, poet, translator and a promoter of Silesian language and tradition. Life Myszyńska was born in Kórnica, Upper Silesia on 30 June 1931. She finished primary school in 1945. After the end of World War II, she worked for several years on her parents' farmBiografia – Anna Myszyńska' and on a farm in Lipno, Prudnik. She didn't attend school because she didn't know Polish, only Silesian. It was not until 1952 that she went to a nursing school in Racibórz, which she graduated as an autodidactist with honors, and got a job at a hospital in Opole. In 1957, she graduated from the State School of Midwives in Nysa. She moved to Biała. She took up photography thanks to her husband, Bogdan Myszyński, with whom she ran a photography studio. After retiring, she became a photojournalist for the "Panorama Bialska" newspaper. She took part in the Silesian dialect competition "Po n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silesians
Silesians (; Silesian German: ''Schläsinger'' ''or'' ''Schläsier''; ; ; ) is both an ethnic as well as a geographical term for the inhabitants of Silesia, a historical region in Central Europe divided by the current national boundaries of Poland, Germany, and Czechia. Historically, the region of Silesia (Lower and Upper) has been inhabited by Polish ( West Slavic Lechitic people), Czechs, and by Germans. Therefore, the term Silesian can refer to anyone of these ethnic groups. However, in 1945, great demographic changes occurred in the region as a result of the Potsdam Agreement leaving most of the region ethnically Polish and/or Slavic Upper Silesian. The Silesian language is one of the regional languages used in Poland alongside Polish as well as Kashubian and is structured with in a SVO format, however the grammar is quite often different to that of the other Lechitic languages. The names of Silesia in different languages most likely share their etymology—; ; ; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
