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Chłapowski
Chłapowski (; feminine: Chłapowska; plural: Chłapowscy) is a Polish surname Polish names have two main elements: the given name, and the surname. The usage of personal names in Poland is generally governed by civil law (legal system), civil law, church law, personal taste and family custom. The law requires a given nam .... Notable people with the surname include: * Antonio Chłapowski (born 1943), Polish-Swedish sportsperson * Dezydery Chłapowski (1788–1879), Polish general, businessman and political activist ** Chłapowski Landscape Park, named after Dezydery Chłapowski See also * {{DEFAULTSORT:Chlapowski Polish-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dezydery Chłapowski
Baron Dezydery Adam Chłapowski (1788 in Turew – 27 March 1879) of the Dryja coat of arms was a Polish general, businessman and political activist. Early life His father Józef Chłapowski (born 1756, died 1826) was the baron of Kościan County and his mother Urszula was from the Moszczeńska family. His tutor as a child was the French immigrant priest Steinhoff. He began his education at the Piarist university in Rydzyna and then in Berlin. Napoleonic Wars At the age of 14, his father placed him in the Prussian dragoon regiment of General Bruesewitz that was stationed in Greater Poland. Simultaneously, the young soldier studied at the Berlin Inspection Officers Institute, from which he graduated in 1805 with a promotion to lieutenant. In 1806, he sought exemption from participating in the war with Napoleonic France. After the Berlin's occupation by the French, he left for Poznań. Here he joined the hundred-man honor guard of Emperor Napoleon formed by the local nobi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Chłapowski
Antonio/Antoni Chłapowski (born December 31, 1943, in Lwów, Poland) is a sportsperson. He is a descendant of Dezydery Chłapowski. Chłapowski has both Polish and Swedish citizenship. Formula Ford career Chłapowski's was the first sport was Formula Ford. He won the Danish championship, and came second in the Swedish championship and the championship of the Benelux countries. Antonio also qualified to second place in the final of the 1972 World Championships. Some of the Swedish competition results in Formula Ford Equestrian career Eventually Chłapowski gave up his auto racing career to move to horses. Upon Chłapowski's graduation from the renowned Swedish education for Riding instructors at Strömsholm he received the highest instructor level, RIK III. Chłapowski continued his sports career as a member of the Swedish equestrian team. For many years he competed against and trained with riders like Jan Mathausen, Thomas and Markus Fuchs, Wilhelm Melliger, Stann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chłapowski Landscape Park
General Dezydery Chłapowski Landscape Park (''Park Krajobrazowy im. gen. Dezyderego Chłapowskiego'') is a protected area ( Landscape Park) in west-central Poland, established in 1992, covering an area of . It is named after the 19th-century Polish general and activist Dezydery Chłapowski. The Park lies within Greater Poland Voivodeship: in Kościan County (Gmina Czempiń, Gmina Kościan, Gmina Krzywiń) and Śrem County (Gmina Śrem __NOTOC__ Gmina Śrem is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Śrem County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. Its seat is the town of Śrem, which lies approximately south of the regional capital Poznań. The gmina ...). References Landscape parks in Poland Parks in Greater Poland Voivodeship 1992 establishments in Poland Protected areas established in 1992 {{Poland-protected-area-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polish Surname
Polish names have two main elements: the given name, and the surname. The usage of personal names in Poland is generally governed by civil law (legal system), civil law, church law, personal taste and family custom. The law requires a given name to indicate the person's gender. Almost all Polish female names end in the vowel ''-a'', and most male names end in a consonant or a vowel other than ''a''. There are, however, a few male names that end in ''a'', which are often old and uncommon, such as Barnaba, Bonawentura, Jarema, Kosma, Kuba (formerly only a diminutive of Jakub, nowadays also a given name on its own) and Saba. Maria (given name), Maria is a female name that can be used also as a second name for males. Since the High Middle Ages, Polish-sounding surnames ending with the masculine ''-ski'' suffix, including ''-cki'' and ''-dzki'', and the corresponding feminine suffix ''-ska/-cka/-dzka'' were associated with the nobility (Polish ''szlachta''), which alone, in the early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
