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Grzymała (surname)
Grzymała or Grzymala is a Polish surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Adam Grzymała-Siedlecki (1876–1967), Polish writer * Andrzej Grzymała (died 1466), Polish academic * Anna Grzymala (born 1970), American political scientist * Domarat Grzymała (died 1324), Polish bishop * Edward Grzymała (1906–1942), Polish Roman Catholic priest * Wojciech Grzymała Wojciech Grzymała (23 April 1793 - 16 December 1871), also known as Albert Grzymala or Albert Grzymała, was a Polish soldier, politician, and banker who was a close associate in Paris of Polish composer Frédéric Chopin. Grzymała was born ... (1793–1871), Polish soldier and politician See also * {{surname Polish-language surnames ... [...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] |
Adam Grzymała-Siedlecki
Adam Franciszek Józef Siedlecki or Adam Grzymała-Siedlecki (AGS) (1876–1967) was a Polish literary and theater critic, playwright, translator, prose writer and director. Biography Congress Poland period Adam Grzymała-Siedlecki was born into an impoverished noble family on 29 January 1876 in Wierzbno, near Kraków, then part of the Russian Empire. His mother was named Julia, née Pieprzak-Czaykowski. His father, Leon, a commune writer, took part to the 1863 January uprising. Adam graduated from secondary school in Warsaw. He then started to study at the ''Wawelberg and Rotwand's School of Engineering'' in 1894, but had to drop off in 1896, after being jailed at the dreaded ''Tenth Pavilion of the Warsaw Citadel'' for participating in illegal Polish self-education clubs. After his release, he moved to Kraków to follow mathematics and Polish at the Jagiellonian University. His first articles date back to 1896, with a review in the Warsaw paper ''Dziennik dla szystkich''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrzej Grzymała
Andrzej Grzymała of Poznań (died September 1466, Kraków) was a Polish academic and rector of the Cracow Academy in the 15th century. Life Grzymała was born in Poznań. In 1422 he matriculated at the university in Cracow, where be earned his ''baccalarius'' in 1443 and his ''magister'' in 1447. He lectured on poetry and rhetoric from 1443 to 1460). In 1453/1454 and 1458, he served as the dean of the faculty of Liberal Arts. He spent 1460–1462 in Italy, primarily in Rome, but perhaps also in Perugia Perugia ( , ; ; ) is the capital city of Umbria in central Italy, crossed by the River Tiber. The city is located about north of Rome and southeast of Florence. It covers a high hilltop and part of the valleys around the area. It has 162,467 ..., where he probably earned a doctorate in medicine in 1461. In 1464/1465 he served as dean of the faculty of medicine in Cracow, and was twice elected rector of the university. He most likely died in September 1466 during the epid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Grzymala
Anna Maria Grzymala-Busse is an American political scientist. She is the Michelle and Kevin Douglas Professor of International Studies in the department of political science at Stanford University. She is also a senior fellow at Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and director of The Europe Center at Stanford University. Grzymala-Busse is known for her research on state development and transformation, religion and politics, political parties, informal political institutions, and post-communist politics. Previously, she was the Ronald Eileen Weiser Professor at University of Michigan. Grzymala-Busse received a doctorate in government from Harvard University in 2000. Grzymala attended Princeton University (AB, Public and International Affairs, 1992) and Cambridge University (M.Phil., 1993). In 2017, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Books * ''Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State''. Princeton Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domarat Grzymała
Domarad Grzymała of the Grzymała coat of arms (?–1324) was bishop of Poznań in the years 1318–1324. He came from the Wielkopolska Grzymalit family. He supported Władysław Łokietek's resentment to the Kraków throne. He became bishop in 1318Hierarchia Catholica, Volume 1, Page 407. On 20 January 1320 he took part in his coronation at the Wawel Cathedral. As a supporter of Łokietek, next to the Archbishop of Gniezno, Janisław and the abbot of Mogilno, He was appointed in 1320 by the Holy See as a judge in the trial between Poland with the Teutonic Order regarding the affiliation of Gdańsk Pomerania. He was also appointed by the Pope as a judge in a dispute between the Bishop of Kujawy, Gerward and the Knights of Lubiszew. In 1321, together with Archbishop Janisław, he went to the border of the diocese between Gerward and the Bishop of Płock A bishop is an ordained member of the clergy who is entrusted with a position of Episcopal polity, authority and oversight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Grzymała
Edward Grzymała (29 September 1906 – 10 August 1940) was a Polish and Roman Catholic priest. He was imprisoned in the Nazi concentration camp at Sachsenhausen. He died at the concentration camp in Dachau. In 1999, he was beatified by Pope John Paul II. He is one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II. See also *List of Nazi-German concentration camps *The Holocaust in Poland *World War II casualties of Poland Around 6 million Polish citizens perished during World War II: about one fifth of the entire pre-war population of Poland. Most of them were civilian victims of the war crimes and the crimes against humanity which Nazi Germany and the Soviet Uni ... References 1906 births 20th-century Polish Roman Catholic priests 108 Blessed Polish Martyrs Sachsenhausen concentration camp prisoners Polish people who died in Dachau concentration camp {{Poland-RC-clergy-stub 1940 deaths ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wojciech Grzymała
Wojciech Grzymała (23 April 1793 - 16 December 1871), also known as Albert Grzymala or Albert Grzymała, was a Polish soldier, politician, and banker who was a close associate in Paris of Polish composer Frédéric Chopin. Grzymała was born in Dunajowce (now Dunaivtsi, Ukraine). He began attending military school in 1807, and took part in the Battle of Borodino (1812), for which he received the medal Virtuti Militari. A freemason, and active in Polish politics during the 1820s, he was a principal orator at the funeral of Stanisław Staszic (1826). In 1828-1829, he was imprisoned in the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg for his association with the Polish ''Towarzystwo Patriotyczne'' (Patriotic Society). As a director of the Bank Polski, he negotiated in London and Paris for financial and other support for Poland after the 1830 November Uprising. Grzymała remained in Paris and became a society figure. He often acted as Chopin's adviser and "gradually began to fill th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
