Chodźko Family
Chodzko or Chodźko is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Adam Chodzko (born 1965), British multimedia artist * Aleksander Chodźko (1804–1891), Polish poet, Slavist, and Iranologist * Leonard Chodźko (1800–1871), Polish historian, geographer, cartographer, and publisher * Lysette Anne Chodzko (born 26 September 1963), known professionally as Lysette Anthony, English actress and model * Witold Chodźko Witold Chodźko (1875–1954) was a Polish social activist, freemason, public health pioneer, neurologist and psychiatrist. Biography Witold Chodźko was born on 1 November 1875 in Piotrków Trybunalski and graduated in 1899 ''cum eximia laude ...

Adam Chodzko
Adam Chodzko (born 1965) is a contemporary British artist, exhibiting internationally. His practice uses a wide range of media, including video, installation, photography, drawing, and performance. Early life and education Adam Chodzko was born in London, England. He graduated from the University of Manchester in 1988 with a degree in the History of Art and in 1994 completed an MA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London. Work Chodzko's artworks explore the interactions and possibilities of human behaviour "in the gap between how we are and how we could be." Exhibiting work since 1991, working across media, from video installation to subtle interventions, and with a practice that is situated both within the gallery and the wider public realm, Chodzko's work explores the idea of collective imagination, investigating how the visual might catalyse new forms of engagement between people. His art proposes new relationships between our value and belief systems, examining their ...
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Aleksander Chodźko
Aleksander Borejko Chodźko (30 August 1804 – 27 December 1891) was a Polish poet, Slavist, and Iranologist. Early life He was born in Krzywicze, in the Minsk Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Belarus) and attended the Imperial University of Vilnius. He was a member of the Filaret Association and the Institute of Oriental Studies that was attached to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Empire in Saint Petersburg. Career From 1830 until 1844 he worked as a Russian diplomat in Iran. From 1852 until 1855 he worked for the French Foreign Ministry in Paris. He succeeded Adam Mickiewicz in the chair of Slavic languages and literatures in the Collège de France, holding the post from 1857 until 1883. He was a member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland and the Société de Linguistique de Paris. Partial bibliography Persia * ''Popular Poetry of Persia''. Specimens of the popular poetry of Persia, orally collected and translated wit ...
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Leonard Chodźko
Leonard Borejko Chodźko (1800–1871) was a Polish historian, geographer, cartographer, publisher, archivist, and activist of Poland's post- November-1830-Uprising Great Emigration. Life He was born on November 6, 1800, in Oborek, as the son of the nobleman and Waleria née Dederko. Chodźko was educated at the University of Vilnius, where he was a member of the Philomaths, a secret organization established in 1816 by Vilnius University students including Adam Mickiewicz, Tomasz Zan and Józef Jeżowski."''Filomaci''," ''Encyklopedia Polski'', p. 164. From 1826 he lived in Paris. During France's July 1830 Revolution, he served as aide-de-camp to General La Fayette. Around 1810, he married Olimpia Maleszewska, the daughter of the Polish economist , who in turn was the natural son of Michał Jerzy Poniatowski, the Primate of Poland and the brother of King Stanisław August Poniatowski. Olimpia's mother was Jeanne Venture de Paradis, known as "the Egyptian," the daughter of ...
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Lysette Anthony
Lysette Anne Chodzko (born 26 September 1963), known professionally as Lysette Anthony, is an English actress and model. She is known for her roles in the film ''Husbands and Wives'' (1992), as Princess Lyssa in the 1983 fantasy epic '' Krull'', Christa Norris in the first series of the ITV comedy-drama ''Auf Wiedersehen, Pet'' (1983), Angie Tyler/Trenchard in the BBC1 sitcom '' Three Up, Two Down'' (1985–1989), and her role as Marnie Nightingale in the Channel 4 soap opera ''Hollyoaks'' (2016–2022). Early life Anthony was born on 26 September 1963 in Marylebone, London, the only child of actor Michael Adam Anthony (né Chodzko), an actor from Jersey, and actress Bernadette Milnes. The couple later divorced. Anthony's French-born paternal grandfather, Alexander Victor Chodzko, was a mariner and journalist of Polish descent. Anthony's childhood was made difficult by her mother's manic depression and schizophrenia and she left home at 19. In 1980, at age 16, Anthony was h ...
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