Stefan Batory

Remembrance

A statue of Báthory by Giovanni Ferrari was raised in 1789 in Padua, Italy, sponsored by the last monarch of the Commonwealth, Stanisław August Poniatowski. Other monuments to him include one in the Łazienki Palace (1795 by André Lebrun) and one in Sniatyn (1904, destroyed in 1939). He was a patron of the Vilnius University (the university was named after him from 1919 to 1939) and several units in the Polish Army from 1919 to 1939. His name was borne by two 20th-century passenger ships of the Polish Merchant Navy, the MS Batory and TSS Stefan Batory. In modern Poland, he is the namesake of the Batory Steelmill, a nongovernmental Stefan Batory Foundation, the Polish 9th Armored Cavalry Brigade, and numerous Polish streets and schools. One of the districts of the town of Chorzów is named after him.