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Bronski
Bronski (also spelled Broński or Bronsky) is a Slavic habitational surname. Notable people with the name include: * Alina Bronsky (born 1978), Russian-born German writer * Brick Bronsky (real name Jeffrey Beltzner; 1964-2021), American wrestler and actor * Michael Bronski (born 1949), American academic and writer * Mieczysław Broński (1882–1938), Russian-Polish communist * Steve Bronski (1960–2021), Scottish singer-songwriter * Zdzisław Broński Zdzisław Broński (nom de guerre "Uskok" (Jumper)) (24 December 1912 – 21 May 1949) was a reserve officer of the Polish Army, member of ZWZ and the Home Army, one of the partisan leaders of the anti-communist underground Freedom and Independen ... (1912–1949), reserve officer of the Polish Army References {{surname Polish-language surnames Polish toponymic surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zdzisław Broński
Zdzisław Broński (nom de guerre "Uskok" (Jumper)) (24 December 1912 – 21 May 1949) was a reserve officer of the Polish Army, member of ZWZ and the Home Army, one of the partisan leaders of the anti-communist underground Freedom and Independence, WiN, in the Lublin region. World War II He took part in the Invasion of Poland in 1939, fighting against Nazi Germany. He was captured and sent to a POW camp from which he escaped, most likely in November 1940. After coming back to his home region he joined a small resistance group Polska Organizacja Zbrojna (Armed Polish Organization) which later became part of the Polish Home Army (AK). He was made the commander of a 35 men platoon in the sub-region of Stary Radzic, AK Region "Lubartów", in the Inspectorate of Lublin. In the underground At the end of 1943, after a series of arrests of local underground anti-Nazi activists, and threatened with arrest himself, Broński organized a partisan group and "went to the forest". In May ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Habitational Surname
A toponymic surname or habitational surname or byname is a surname or byname derived from a place name,"Toponymic Surnames as Evidence of the Origin: Some Medieval Views" , by Benjamin Z. Kedar.Last Names and Their Meanings ''ancestry.com'' which included names of specific locations, such as the individual's place of origin, residence, or lands that they held, or, more generically, names that were derived from regional topographic features.Iris Shagrir, "The Medieval Evolution of By-naming: Notions from the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem", ''In Laudem Hierosolymitani'' (Shagrir, Ellenblum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alina Bronsky
Alina Bronsky (a pseudonym), is a Russian-born German writer. Her books have been published in more than 15 countries, including the US and Italy, in both print and audio formats. Her debut novel Scherbenpark (2008), or Broken Glass Park (2010), has received wide critical acclaim. Life Bronsky was born in 1978 in Yekaterinburg, Soviet Russia, an industrial town at the foot of the Ural Mountains in central Russia, and spent her childhood in Marburg and Darmstadt. After dropping out of medical school, Bronsky worked as an advertising copywriter and in newspaper editing. Alina Bronsky is widowed and lives with her boyfriend, the actor Ulrich Noethen, in Berlin. She has three children from her first marriage and, since August 2013, a daughter with Noethen. Bronsky has said that she sees herself as two separate people: the German-speaking self deals with her professional and occupational matters, while the Russian-speaking self deals with family and emotional matters. She established a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brick Bronsky
Jeffrey Mark Beltzner (April 18, 1964 – August 23, 2021), known by his ring name Brick Bronsky, was an American actor, film producer, professional wrestler and sports promoter. He gained particular notoriety for starring in a string of films for Troma Studios during the early-1990s, most notably, in '' Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D.'' (1990), '' Class of Nuke 'Em High 2: Subhumanoid Meltdown'' (1991), and '' Class of Nuke 'Em High 3: The Good, the Bad and the Subhumanoid'' (1994); he also had a small role in Jean-Claude Van Damme's '' The Quest'' (1996). Beltzner was a bodybuilder prior to entering pro wrestling. He won a number of power lifting competitions in Pennsylvania and the Tri-State area as a teenager and qualified for the Mr. America bodybuilding competition after becoming Mr. Teen-age Pennsylvania in 1984. He eventually turned to professional wrestling after graduating from Pennsylvania State University and spent the late-1980s in Canada where he achieved some success wrest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Bronski
Michael Bronski (born May 12, 1949) is an American academic and writer, best known for his 2011 book ''A Queer History of the United States''. He has been involved with LGBT politics since 1969 as an activist and organizer. He has won numerous awards for LGBTQ activism and scholarship, including the prestigious Publishing Triangle's Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement. Bronski is a Professor of Practice in Media and Activism at Harvard University. Career Since 1970, Bronski has written extensively on culture, politics, film, theater, books, sexuality, LGBT culture, and current events. As a journalist, cultural critic and political commentator he has been published in a wide array of venues including ''Gay Community News'' (Boston), ''The Village Voice'', ''The Boston Globe'', ''GLQ'', ''The Los Angeles Times'', ''The Boston Phoenix'', ''Cineaste'', ''Contemporary Women's Writing'', ''Time'', '' The Nation'', and the ''Boston Review''. His scholarship includes over 50 e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mieczysław Broński
Mieczysław Broński (also known as Warszawski-Broński or Broński-Warszawski, and M. J. Braun; ; ''Mechislav Genrikhovich Bronsky''; 1882 – 1 September 1938) was a Russian-Polish communist, Soviet diplomat, economist and academic, and a victim of the Great Purge. Early career The Bronski family were industrialists, who owned a cotton factory in Łódź. After leaving school in 1900, he emigrated to Munich to study at the Technical University of Munich, and later at the Munich University, and joined the Polish Progressive movement. In 1902, he joined the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL), led by Rosa Luxemburg and Leo Jogiches. On the outbreak of the 1905 revolution, in February, he moved to Warsaw, to work first as a propagandist for the SDPKiL, then as a member of the Warsaw city party committee. In 1906, he edited the party newspaper ''Czerwony Sztandar'' ("Red Flag"). He was arrested in Lublin in autumn 1906, and held in prison until the end o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Bronski
Steven William Forrest (7 February 1960 – 7 December 2021) was a Scottish singer-songwriter, best known for his time as a member of synth-pop band Bronski Beat, with Jimmy Somerville and Larry Steinbachek. Career He was a co-founder and keyboard player of the group Bronski Beat, known for the singles "Smalltown Boy" and " Why?". He was also an LGBTQ activist and was openly gay from an early age. Bronski, whose real name was Steven Forrest, was born and raised in Castlemilk, Glasgow, where he worked in his youth as a labourer. He lived in a flat in Brixton, London, during the early formative period of Bronski Beat with his fellow musicians. Later on he squatted with partner and bandmate Larry Steinbachek in Camberwell, London. Following the break up of the band he lived in Thailand for many years, as well as Paris, before returning to the United Kingdom. Personal life and death Bronski had a stroke in 2018 which limited his mobility. He died at the age of 61, from smoke inhal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polish-language Surnames
Polish (, , or simply , ) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic subgroup, within the Indo-European language family, and is written in the Latin script. It is primarily spoken in Poland and serves as the official language of the country, as well as the language of the Polish diaspora around the world. In 2024, there were over 39.7 million Polish native speakers. It ranks as the sixth-most-spoken among languages of the European Union. Polish is subdivided into regional dialects. It maintains strict T–V distinction pronouns, honorifics, and various forms of formalities when addressing individuals. The traditional 32-letter Polish alphabet has nine additions (, , , , , , , , ) to the letters of the basic 26-letter Latin alphabet, while removing three (x, q, v). Those three letters are at times included in an extended 35-letter alphabet. The traditional set comprises 23 consonants and 9 written vowels, including two nasal vowels (, ) denoted by a reversed diacritic hook ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
