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Witkowski
Witkowski (Polish feminine: Witkowska, plural: Witkowscy) is a Polish surname. Notable people with the surname include: Witkowski *August Witkowski (1854–1913), Polish physicist **Collegium Witkowski in Kraków, Poland *Bronisław Witkowski (1899–1971), Polish luger *Charles S. Witkowski (1907–1993), American politician *Georg Witkowski (1863–1939), Jewish German literary historian *Georges Martin Witkowski (1867–1943), French conductor and composer *Igor Witkowski *John Witkowski (born 1962), American football player *Kalikst Witkowski (1818–1877), Polish politician *Kamil Witkowski (born 1984), Polish footballer *Karol D. Witkowski (1860–1910), Polish-American painter * (born 1925), German author *Marek Witkowski (born 1974), Polish sprint canoer *Maximilian Harden, born Felix Ernst Witkowski (1861–1927), Jewish German journalist *Michał Witkowski (born 1975), Polish novelist and journalist * (born 1949), French physicist *Nik Witkowski (born 1976), Canadian rug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanisław Witkowski
Stanisław Witkowski CBE (Hon.) (23 April 1883 – 28 August 1957), was an officer, engineer and military industry organiser in the Polish Army, Hononary Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Background and early life As a secondary school student Stanisław Witkowski was a member of " Association of the Polish Youth "Zet"/" Zarzewie", clandestine organisations fighting for the independence of Poland. In 1912 he studied at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Lwów (Lviv) Polytechnic. There he joined the ranks of the Polish Rifle Squads (organised by Zarzewie), serving in the 1st Academic Company. Following the outbreak of the First World War he volunteered for the Polish Legions, fighting with distinction in the 1st Artillery Regiment. After the so-called "oath crisis" the Polish Legions were disbanded and the legionnaires, including Stanisław Witkowski, were interned by the Germans in the camps of Szczypiorno and Łomża. At Armistice, (which is also Poland's I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Witkowski
August Wiktor Witkowski (12 October 1854 – 21 January 1913), was a Polish physicist, professor and rector of Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Biography August Witkowski was born in Brody, the city, which then belonged to Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, part of the Habsburg Empire. The secondary education he acquired in Brody in 1872, and then became a student of The Engineering Faculty of Technical University in Lviv. Engineer diploma he acquired in 1877, and at the same time he gained a position of professor's assistant in Department of Geodetics Engineering. Shortly he entered Lviv University, where he studied the mathematics and physics. Owing to very good results of his education, he acquired a scholarship in Berlin. He continued there studies under Gustav Kirchhoff direction (two years period). Next he moved to Great Britain for one-year studies under William Thomson-Lord Kelvin direction. After his return (1881) to Lviv he was shortly qualified as an assistant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Martin Witkowski
Georges Martin Witkowski (6 January 1867 – 12 August 1943) was a French conductor and composer. Career Born in Mostaganem, French Algeria, Witkowski started out in the army, becoming a cavalry officer and meeting Louis Vierne during that time. He later studied with Vincent d'Indy at the Schola Cantorum of Paris and, after settling in Lyon, was appointed director of the conservatory there in 1924. He founded the "Société des Grands Concerts" in Lyon, forerunner of the Orchestre National de Lyon, which organized hundreds of concerts and introduced to the public the works of French composers such as Pierre de Bréville, Jacques Ibert, Paul Le Flem, André Caplet, Albert Roussel, Francis Poulenc, Jean Roger-Ducasse, Henri Rabaud, Pierre-Octave Ferroud and Adrien Rougier, as well as works by foreign composers such as Igor Stravinsky, Isaac Albéniz, Sergei Prokofiev, Arthur Honegger, Ottorino Respighi, Alexandre Glazounov, etc. His son was the conductor and cellist Jean Witko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michał Witkowski
Michał Witkowski (born 17 January 1975, in Wrocław, Poland) is a Polish novelist. Life and career His first "official" work, ''Copyright'', published in 2001, was a collection of short stories. However, he had previously published, ''Zgorszeni wstają od stołów'' in 1997 as Michał S. Witkowski, with the S. standing for Sebastian. On December 17, 2004, ''Lubiewo'' was published — a radically queer novel that sold an estimated 15,000 copies. The novel has been translated into German, English (''Lovetown''), Spanish, Dutch, Finnish (2007), French, Russian, Czech, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Slovenian (2010) and Hungarian (2010). His next collection of stories ''Fototapeta'' (Photo-wallpaper) was published in 2006 by W.A.B. More recently, Witkowski has published two "queer crime novels", in which a gay writer named Michał Witkowski acts as first-person narrator and detective: ''Drwal'' (The Woodcutter, 2011) and ''Zbrodniarz i dziewczyna'' (The Criminal and the Girl, 2014). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamil Witkowski
Kamil Witkowski (born 9 December 1984 in Lublin) is a Polish footballer who played as a forward for Polish First League side Znicz Pruszkow. Witkowski played high school soccer in the United States for Bishop Kearney High School in Rochester, New York Rochester () is a city in the U.S. state of New York, the seat of Monroe County, and the fourth-most populous in the state after New York City, Buffalo, and Yonkers, with a population of 211,328 at the 2020 United States census. Located i ..., USA. He scored 110 goals in four years at Kearney, which puts him at number seven on the all-time scoring list in Section V. References Kamil Witkowskiat Internet encyclopedia KS Cracovia 1984 births Living people MKS Cracovia players Polish footballers Sportspeople from Lublin {{Poland-footy-forward-stub Men's association football forwards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igor Witkowski
(, "The Bell") was a purported top-secret Nazi scientific technological device, secret weapon, or . First described by Polish journalist and author Igor Witkowski in (2000), it was later popularized by military journalist and author Nick Cook, who associated it with Nazi occultism, antigravity, and free energy suppression research. Mainstream reviewers have criticized claims about Die Glocke as being pseudoscientific, recycled rumors, and a hoax. and other alleged Nazi "miracle weapons" have been dramatized in video games, television shows, and novels. History In his 2001 book ''The Hunt for Zero Point'', author Nick Cook identified claims about as having originated in the 2000 Polish book ("The Truth About The Wonder Weapon") by Igor Witkowski. Cook described Witkowski's claims of a device called "The Bell" engineered by Nazi scientists that was "a glowing, rotating contraption" rumored to have "some kind of antigravitational effect", be a "time machine", or part of an " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norbert Witkowski
Norbert Witkowski (born August 5, 1981) is a Polish former footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Club career Early career He previously played for Stomil Olsztyn, Polonia Lidzbark Warmiński, Stasiak Opoczno and Drwęca Nowe Miasto Lubawskie. Arka Gdynia He made his Ekstraklasa debut on 15 October 2005 versus Amica Wronki. Iraklis On 24 January 2011 he signed a 1.5-years contract with Greek Superleague The Super League Greece 1 ( el, Ελληνική Σούπερ Λιγκ 1), or Super League 1, is the highest professional association football league in Greece. The league was formed on 16 July 2006 and replaced ''Alpha Ethniki'' at the top of ... outfit Iraklis. References External links *Norbert Witkowskiat Iraklis FC Official site. 1981 births Living people OKS Stomil Olsztyn players Arka Gdynia players Iraklis F.C. (Thessaloniki) players Górnik Zabrze players Polish footballers Sportspeople from Olsztyn Men's association football goalkeepers {{Pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Witkowski
Georg Witkowski (11 September 1863, Berlin – 11 September 1939, Amsterdam) was a German literary historian. Literary works * '' Die Handlung des zweiten Teils von Goethes Faust'' - Akademische Antrittsvorlesung, 1898, Dr. Seele & Co., Leipzig * ''Goethe'', 1899 * ''Das deutsche Drama des 19. Jahrhunderts'', 1903 * ''Goethes Faust Faust is the protagonist of a classic German folklore, German legend based on the historical Johann Georg Faust ( 1480–1540). The wiktionary:erudite, erudite Faust is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, which leads him to make a ...'', 1906 * ''Die Entwicklung der deutschen Literatur seit 1830'', 1911 See also * Witkowski References 1863 births 1939 deaths 19th-century German historians 20th-century German historians Goethe scholars German expatriates in the Netherlands Writers from Berlin 19th-century German male writers German male non-fiction writers {{Germany-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Szczepan Witkowski
Szczepan Viktor Witkowski (20 December 1898 – 29 May 1937) was a Polish soldier and skier. Witkowski was born in Lwów, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria (today Lviv, Ukraine). He was a member of the national Olympic military patrol team in 1924 which was one of two withdrawing to bad weather conditions. He also competed in the men's 50 kilometre event at the 1924 Winter Olympics. He died in Stryi Stryi ( uk, Стрий, ; pl, Stryj) is a city located on the left bank of the river Stryi in Lviv Oblast (region) of western Ukraine 65 km to the south of Lviv (in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains). It serves as the administrative ce ..., Poland (since 1939 Ukraine). References 1898 births 1937 deaths Polish military patrol (sport) runners Military patrol competitors at the 1924 Winter Olympics Olympic biathletes for Poland Sportspeople from Lviv People from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria Polish male cross-country skiers Olympic cross-country ski ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Collegium Witkowski
The Collegium Witkowski (Witkowski College), in Kraków, Poland, is a Jagiellonian University The Jagiellonian University (Polish: ''Uniwersytet Jagielloński'', UJ) is a public research university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1364 by King Casimir III the Great, it is the oldest university in Poland and the 13th oldest university in ... building erected in 1908–11. It stands at ''ulica Gołębia'' (Dove Street) 13 and was named for physicist and Jagiellonian University rector August Witkowski. The building's style mixes elements of Gothic-revival, Romanesque-revival and Art Nouveau architecture. Originally used by the physics department, it now serves the history department. References Jagiellonian University buildings Art Nouveau architecture in Poland Art Nouveau educational buildings Buildings and structures completed in 1911 {{Poland-struct-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Witkowski
John Joseph Witkowski (born June 18, 1962) is a former American football player. Football career John Witkowski was the winner of the 1982 Asa A. Bushnell Cup for leadership, competitive spirit, contribution to the team, and accomplishments on the field, Witkowski holds 12 Columbia Lions passing records, six total offense marks, and five Ivy League records. He remained a Lion after his collegiate career, being picked by Detroit Lions in the sixth round of the 1984 NFL Draft The 1984 NFL Draft was the procedure by which National Football League teams selected amateur college football players. It is officially known as the NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting. The draft was held May 1–2, 1984, at the Omni Park Cen .... He was also the first starting quarterback of the London Monarchs of the World League of American Football, although he lost his place in the team's very first game. Personal life He is currently President/CEO of the Independent Bankers Association of New York ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marek Witkowski
Marek Krzysztof Witkowski (born 21 May 1974 in Czechowice-Dziedzice) is a Polish sprint canoeist who competed from 1994 to 2000. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Sydney in 2000. For his sport achievements, he received: Golden Cross of Merit in 2000. Career highlights Witkowski won a bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney in the Men's K-4 1000 m competition with crewmates Adam Seroczyński, Dariusz Białkowski and Grzegorz Kotowicz. He also won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-4 1000 m: 1994) and two bronzes (K-4 500 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The Great Hanshin earthquake strike ...). ReferencesDatabaseOlympics.com profile* * 1974 births Canoeists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
