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Laurynas Gucevičius
Laurynas Gucevičius (; 1753–1798) was a Polish -Lithuanian architect from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, where all of his designs were built. Biography He was born in the village of Migonys near Kupiškis, in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. His father was a Lithuanian peasant, Simonas Masiulis.As evidenced by the original baptismal record preserved in a local church: ; as cited in: He was baptized as Laurynas Masiulis. His Lithuanian mother, Kotryna Žekonytė Masiulienė, died early in his youth, and her relative and his godmother Ona Baltušytė-Gucevičienė () supported him and financed his studies. After her, he changed his surname to Gucevičius. He attended local schools at Kupiškis and Palėvenė, and then the gymnasium in Panevėžys. According to his student and biographer Karol Podczaszyński, the school in Kupiškis was the place where Gucevičius for the first time started to learn the Polish language. In 1773, he joined the Academy of Vilnius. He studied eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verkiai Palace
Verkiai Palace () is an 18th-century neoclassical architecture, neoclassical mansion in Verkiai, Vilnius, Lithuania. History Until the end of the 14th century this place was a property of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania. There was a wooden manor even in the 13th century. In 1387 Lithuanian Grand Duke and King of Poland Jogaila, on occasion of Christianization of Lithuania#Christianization by Jogaila and Vytautas, accepting Christianity, donated this place to Archdiocese of Vilnius, Vilnius' Episcopate. Verkiai served as the permanent summer residence of Vilnius bishops until the end of the 18th century. Verkiai Palace became widely known after bishop Ignacy Jakub Massalski took over it in 1780. He hired two famous architects, Marcin Knackfus and Laurynas Gucevičius, to rebuild the palace in the Neoclassical architecture, Neoclassical style. The general plan and maintenance buildings were designed by Marcin Knackfus. The main palace building, the stables and several other building ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karol Podczaszyński
Karol Podczaszyński (; 7 November 1790 – 19 April 1860) was a Polish- Lithuanian leading Vilnius architect, a representative of the neoclassical architecture and a professor of the Vilnius University, as well as one of the pioneers of industrial design. He was born on 7 November 1790 in the village of Žyrmuny near Lida, in what is now the Grodno Region of Belarus. He graduated from the prestigious Polish Krzemieniec Lyceum and the Vilnius University. Between 1814 and 1816 he continued his studies on architecture in St. Petersburg, where he became the first Pole on the Imperial Academy of Arts. Between 1817 and 1819 Podczaszyński also travelled around European countries, visiting Königsberg, Danzig, Berlin, Paris, Naples, Venice and Vienna before returning to Cracow. Upon his return to Vilnius in 1819, he was offered a chair of architecture, which he accepted. Among his most notable architectural works are the refurbishment of the interior of the Vilna University ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jagiellonian University
The Jagiellonian University (, UJ) is a public research university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1364 by Casimir III the Great, King Casimir III the Great, it is the oldest university in Poland and one of the List of oldest universities in continuous operation, oldest universities in continuous operation in the world. The university grounds contain the Kraków Old Town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The university has been viewed as a vanguard of Polish culture as well as a significant contributor to the intellectual heritage of Europe. The campus of the Jagiellonian University is centrally located within the Kraków, city of Kraków. The university consists of thirteen main faculties, in addition to three faculties composing the Jagiellonian University Medical College, Collegium Medicum. It employs roughly 4,000 academics and provides education to more than 35,000 students who study in 166 fields. The main language of instruction is Polish, although around 30 degrees are offer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Kołłątaj
Hugo Stumberg Kołłątaj, also spelled ''Kołłątay'' (1 April 1750 – 28 February 1812), was a prominent Polish constitutional reformer and educationalist, and one of the most prominent figures of the Enlightenment in Poland, Polish Enlightenment. He served as Deputy Chancellor (Poland), Deputy Chancellor of the Crown between 1791–92. He was a Catholic priest, social and political activist, political thinker, historian, philosopher, and polymath. Biography Early life Hugo Kołłątaj was born on 1 April 1750 in Velyki Dederkaly, Dederkały Wielkie (now in Western Ukraine) in Volhynian Voivodeship (1569–1795), Volhynia into a family of Polish nobility. Soon after, his family moved to Nieciesławice, near Sandomierz, where he spent his childhood. He attended school in Pińczów. He began his studies at the Jagiellonian University, Kraków Academy, subsequently, Jagiellonian University, where he studied law and gained a doctorate. Afterwards, around 1775 he took holy orders. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Copenhagen
The University of Copenhagen (, KU) is a public university, public research university in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in Scandinavia, after Uppsala University. The University of Copenhagen consists of six different Faculty (division), faculties, with teaching taking place in its four distinct campuses, all situated in Copenhagen. The university operates 36 different departments and 122 separate research centres in Copenhagen, as well as a number of museums and botanical gardens in and outside the Danish capital. The University of Copenhagen also owns and operates multiple research stations around Denmark, with two additional ones located in Greenland. Additionally, University of Copenhagen Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences and the public hospitals of the Capital Region of Denmark, Capital and Region Zealand, Zealand Region of Denmark constitute the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jakub Kubicki
Jakub Kubicki (1758–1833) was a Polish classicist architect and designer. Biography Born in Warsaw in 1758, into a bourgeois family, Jakub Kubicki graduated from the Jesuit College, at the same time that he was taking lessons from Domenico Merlini. In 1777, he was hired by architect Szymon Bogumił Zug to help in the construction of the Holy Trinity Church in Warsaw. In 1783, he went to study in Italy as a fellow of King Stanisław August Poniatowski (with his brother), from where he returned in 1786. On his return he worked as an architect and he was the personal architect to the king. Around 1783, he got married and had three children: Helena (b. 1784), Józefa (1787–1812), and Izabela (born 1791). In 1791, in recognition of his services, he was knighted and received the coat of arms of Kolumna Skrzydlate (). Since the possession of an estate was a symbol of belonging to the nobility, for many years he had an estate in Wilków. At the time of the Kościuszko U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ephraim Schröger
Ephraim Schröger or Efraim Szreger (1727, in Toruń – 16 August 1783, in Warsaw) was a German-born architect active in Poland. Notable works *New façade A façade or facade (; ) is generally the front part or exterior of a building. It is a loanword from the French language, French (), which means "frontage" or "face". In architecture, the façade of a building is often the most important asp ... for the Carmelite Church, Warsaw * Lelewel Palace * Tepper Palace, Warsaw References * Hentschel, Walter: ''Die sächsische Baukunst des 18. Jahrhunderts in Polen'', Berlin 1976, 2 Bände, insbesondere Band 1 (Textband) S. 8off m.w.Nw. und Abbildungen * Łoza, Stefan: ''Architekci i budowniczowie w Polsce'', Warszawa 1954 * ''Kwartalnik Architektury i Urbanistyki'' nr 6, 1961 r., s. 153-60 * Świechowska, A. (Hrsg.):''Katedra gnieźnieńska'', T. I-II. Poznań 1968-70 * Lorentz, Stanislaw: ''Efraim Szreger. Architekt polski XVIII wieku'', Warszawa 1986 {{DEFAULTSORT:Schrog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanisław Zawadzki
Stanisław Zawadzki (1743–1806) was a Polish architect, representative of late-baroque and classicism, inclined towards Palladian architecture and precursor of the empire (style), empire style in Polish architecture, Major General of the Army of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.Henryk P. Kosk, Generalicja polska t. II, Pruszków, 2001 p. 278. Author of palaces in Śmiełów (1797), Dobrzyca (1799), Lubostroń (1800), defensive buildings, military buildings in Kamieniec Podolski and Warsaw. Biography Zawadzki was born in 1743 in Warsaw. He graduated in St. Luke Academy in Rome. In 1769 he became a professor and in 1776 an honorable member of the academy. He died on October 19, 1806, in Warsaw. References * * Generals of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth 1743 births 1806 deaths Polish Baroque architects Ukrainian Baroque architects Artists from Warsaw {{Poland-architect-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Szymon Bogumił Zug
Szymon Bogumił Zug (20 February 1733 – 11 August 1807), born Simon Gottlieb Zug, and also known as Zugk, was a renowned Polish- German classicist architect and designer of gardens. Born in Merseburg in Saxony, he spent most of his life in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, where in 1768, he was ennobled. One of the most versatile and prolific architects of his epoch, Zug was the author of several dozen projects of palaces and churches. As a garden designer, he represented an early romanticist style. Among the most notable buildings designed by Zug are: * Lutheran Holy Trinity Church in Warsaw, also known simply as Zug's Church (1777–1782) * Natolin palace (1780–1782) * Młociny palace (1786) * Blank's Palace (; 1762–1764) * Poniatowski's palace (1772) * The English-Chinese Garden at Wilanów Palace (1784) * Fat Kaśka Zug also supervised the refurbishment of Warsaw Arsenal, designed the romanticist ruins in the garden of Arkadia near Łowicz and designed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chrystian Piotr Aigner
Chrystian Piotr Aigner (1756 in Puławy, Poland – 9 February 1841 in Florence, Italy) was a Polish architect and theoretician of architecture. Life Chrystian Piotr Aigner acquired extensive knowledge of architecture in the course of several journeys to Italy that he made in the company of his patron and subsequent collaborator and friend Stanisław Kostka Potocki. He studied in Italy. Later, during a long association with the city of Warsaw, he created many Classicist buildings in the Polish capital. A member of Rome's Academy of St. Luke, and of the Warsaw Society of Friends of Learning, and from 1817 a professor of architecture at Warsaw University, he was active in Warsaw until 1825 and in Kraków before leaving for Italy for good in 1827. Aigner at first applied the decorative forms of early Neoclassicism (Marynka's Palace in Puławy) or made reference to the works of Andrea Palladio (the façade of St. Anne's Church in Warsaw). In a later period, he reworked pattern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, also referred to as Poland–Lithuania or the First Polish Republic (), was a federation, federative real union between the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, existing from 1569 to 1795. This state was among the largest, most populated countries of 16th- to 18th-century Europe. At its peak in the early 17th century, the Commonwealth spanned approximately and supported a multi-ethnic population of around 12 million as of 1618. The official languages of the Commonwealth were Polish language, Polish and Latin Language, Latin, with Catholic Church, Catholicism as the state religion. The Union of Lublin established the Commonwealth as a single entity on 1 July 1569. The two nations had previously been in a personal union since the Union of Krewo, Krewo Agreement of 1385 (Polish–Lithuanian union) and the subsequent marriage of Queen Jadwiga of Poland to Grand Duke Jogaila of Lithuania, who was cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ignacy Massalski
Prince Ignacy Massalski () (1726–1794) was a Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Polish-Lithuanian szlachcic, nobleman. Ignacy became a Catholic Church, Catholic Priesthood (Catholic Church), priest and was named Bishop of Vilnius by Pope Clement XIII on 29 March 1762.''Hierarchia Catholica medii et recentioris aevi'', v. VI, Padua, Patavii 1958, p. 442 He was one of the initiators of the Commission for National Education. During his time on the commission, Massalski set up 300 parish schools. In 1776 he was removed from the Commission for embezzlement of public funds. He was succeeded as head of the commission by Michał Jerzy Poniatowski. He was a supporter of the Targowica Confederation and an opponent of the Kościuszko Uprising. As bishop, Massalski was opposed to the kidnapping and forcible conversion of Jewish children. He published a pastoral letter in 1783 condemning such practices. Massalski commissioned the reconstruction of the Vilnius Cathedral by Laurynas Guc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
