100 Notable alumni of
University of Wroclaw
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The University of Wroclaw is 181st in the world, 61st in Europe, and 5th in Poland by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Wroclaw sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Mateusz Morawiecki
- Enrolled in the University of Wroclaw
- In 1992 graduated with magister degree in study of history
- Occupations
- politicianhistorianeconomistmanager
- Biography
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Mateusz Jakub Morawiecki is a Polish economist, historian and politician who served as the prime minister of Poland between 2017 and 2023. A member of the Law and Justice (PiS) party, he previously served in the cabinet of prime minister Beata Szydło as deputy prime minister from 2015 to 2017, Minister of Development from 2015 to 2018 and Minister of Finance from 2016 to 2018. Prior to his political appointment, Morawiecki had an extensive business career. He is considered to have been a de jure leader of Poland, with the de facto leader being Jarosław Kaczyński, the leader of the party Morawiecki is a member of.
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Max Born
- Enrolled in the University of Wroclaw
- Studied in 1901-1904
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- academicscientistnon-fiction writertheoretical physicistphysicist
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Max Born was a German-British theoretical physicist who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. He also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics and supervised the work of a number of notable physicists in the 1920s and 1930s. Born was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics for his "fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially in the statistical interpretation of the wave function".
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Anna German
- Enrolled in the University of Wroclaw
- In 1962 studied geology
- Occupations
- composersinger-songwriteractorsinger
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Anna Wiktoria German-Tucholska was a Polish singer (lirico-spinto), immensely popular in Poland and in the Soviet Union in the 1960s–1970s. She released over a dozen music albums with songs in Polish, as well as several albums with Russian repertoire. Throughout her music career, she also recorded songs in the German, Italian, Spanish, English, and Latin languages.
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Edith Stein
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- resistance fighterphilosopherlinguistnununiversity teacher
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Edith Stein OCD was a German Jewish philosopher who converted to Catholicism and became a Discalced Carmelite nun. Edith Stein was murdered in the gas chamber at Birkenau on 9 August 1942, and is canonized as a martyr and saint of the Catholic Church; she is also one of six patron saints of Europe.
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Paul Ehrlich
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- physicianchemistbiologistpharmacologistuniversity teacher
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Paul Ehrlich was a Nobel Prize-winning German physician and scientist who worked in the fields of hematology, immunology and antimicrobial chemotherapy. Among his foremost achievements were finding a cure for syphilis in 1909 and inventing an important modification of the technique for Gram staining bacteria. The methods he developed for staining tissue made it possible to distinguish between different types of blood cells, which led to the ability to diagnose numerous blood diseases.
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Grzegorz Braun
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- film directorjournalistscreenwriterdirectoropinion journalist
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Grzegorz Michał Braun is a Polish politician. He served as a member of the Sejm for Rzeszów from 2019 to 2024. He has been Chairman of the Confederation of the Polish Crown (abbreviated in Polish as KKP) since 2019 and a member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Lesser Poland and Świętokrzyskie since 2024.
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Hans-Georg Gadamer
- Enrolled in the University of Wroclaw
- Studied in 1918-1919
- Occupations
- university teacherphilosopher
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Hans-Georg Gadamer was a German philosopher of the continental tradition, best known for his 1960 magnum opus on hermeneutics, Truth and Method (Wahrheit und Methode).
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Pola Raksa
- Enrolled in the University of Wroclaw
- In 1960 studied Polish studies
- Occupations
- performing artistactorcostume designer
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Apolonia "Pola" Raksa is a Polish movie star, singer, and model who was especially popular in Poland and abroad in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Kornel Morawiecki
- Enrolled in the University of Wroclaw
- 1958-1963 graduated with magister degree in physics
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacherdissidentphysicisttrade unionist
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Kornel Andrzej Morawiecki was a Polish politician, the founder and leader of Fighting Solidarity (Polish: Solidarność Walcząca), one of the splinters of the Solidarity movement in Poland during the 1980s. His academic background was that of a theoretical physicist. He was also a member of the 8th legislature of the Sejm, of which was also the Senior Marshal on 12 November 2015. His son Mateusz Morawiecki was the Prime Minister of Poland from 2017 to 2023, as well as a former chairman of Bank Zachodni WBK.
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Paul Tillich
- Enrolled in the University of Wroclaw
- Studied in 1911
- Occupations
- philosopheruniversity teachertheologian
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Paul Johannes Tillich was a German-American Christian existentialist philosopher, religious socialist, and Lutheran theologian who was one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century. Tillich taught at German universities before immigrating to the United States in 1933, where he taught at Union Theological Seminary, Harvard University, and the University of Chicago.
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Patryk Jaki
- Enrolled in the University of Wroclaw
- In 2010 graduated with master's degree in political science
- Occupations
- politicianpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Patryk Tomasz Jaki Leader of the European Conservatives in the European Parliament. Vice-president of the PiS party since 2024. Member of the European Parliament in the IX and X terms (since 2019). Polish political scientist and politician holding a PhD in security sciences and serving as an academic lecturer.
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Norbert Elias
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- philosopherpoetwritersociologistuniversity teacher
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Norbert Elias was a Jewish German sociologist who later became a British citizen. He is especially famous for his theory of civilizing/decivilizing processes.
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Elżbieta Witek
- Enrolled in the University of Wroclaw
- In 1980 studied historical science
- Occupations
- historianpolitician
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Elżbieta Barbara Witek is a Polish conservative politician of the Law and Justice party. Historian, history teacher by profession. Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland for the 8th and 9th parliamentary terms from 2019 to 2023.
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Grzegorz Schetyna
- Enrolled in the University of Wroclaw
- In 1990 studied study of history and magister degree
- Occupations
- politicianofficialsports executive
- Biography
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Grzegorz Juliusz Schetyna is a Polish politician who has been Leader of Civic Platform and Leader of the Opposition from 26 January 2016 to 25 January 2020. He has served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland from 2014 to 2015, Marshal of the Sejm from 2010 to 2011, Acting President of Poland 2010, Deputy Prime Minister of Poland from 2007 to 2009 and Minister of the Interior and Administration 2007 to 2009. He has been a Member of the Sejm from 1997.
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Ryszard Czarnecki
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- politician
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Richard Henry Czarnecki is a Polish politician and a former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Poland. He is a member of the Law and Justice, part of the European Conservatives and Reformists.
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Clara Immerwahr
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- peace activistwomen's rights activistchemist
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Clara Helene Immerwahr was a German chemist. She was the first German woman to be awarded a doctorate in chemistry from the University of Breslau, and is credited with being a pacifist as well as a "heroine of the women's rights movement". From 1901 until her death of suicide in 1915, she was married to the Nobel Prize-winning chemist Fritz Haber.
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Christian Morgenstern
- Enrolled in the University of Wroclaw
- Studied general economics
- Occupations
- theosophistliterary editorlibrettistwriterplaywright
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Christian Otto Josef Wolfgang Morgenstern was a German writer and poet from Munich. Morgenstern married Margareta Gosebruch von Liechtenstern on 7 March 1910. He worked for a while as a journalist in Berlin, but spent much of his life traveling through Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, primarily in a vain attempt to recover his health. His travels, though they failed to restore him to health, allowed him to meet many of the foremost literary and philosophical figures of his time in central Europe.
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Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz
- Enrolled in the University of Wroclaw
- In 1984 studied physics
- Occupations
- politicianphysicistteacher
- Biography
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Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz is a Polish conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of Poland from 31 October 2005 to 14 July 2006. He was a member of the Law and Justice party (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, PiS).
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Helmuth James Graf von Moltke
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- resistance fighterjuristlawyer
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Helmuth James Graf von Moltke was a German jurist who, as a draftee in the German Abwehr, acted to subvert German human-rights abuses of people in territories occupied by Germany during World War II. He was a founding member of the Kreisau Circle opposition group, whose members opposed the government of Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany, and discussed prospects for a Germany based on moral and democratic principles after Hitler. The Nazis executed him for treason for his participation in these discussions.
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Beata Kempa
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- politician
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Beata Agnieszka Kempa is a Polish politician. She was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 5,378 votes in 3 Wrocław district on the Law and Justice list. From 2015 to 2017, Kempa served as Chief of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister.
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Wojciech Korfanty
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- journalistpolitician
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Wojciech Korfanty was a Polish activist, journalist and politician, who served as a member of the German parliaments, the Reichstag and the Prussian Landtag, and later, in the Polish Sejm. Briefly, he also was a paramilitary leader, known for organizing the Polish Silesian Uprisings in Upper Silesia, which after World War I was contested by Germany and Poland. Korfanty fought to protect Poles from discrimination and the policies of Germanisation in Upper Silesia before the war and sought to join Silesia to Poland after Poland regained its independence.
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Marek Koterski
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- theatrical directorfilm directorpolonistplaywrightart historian
- Biography
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Marek Koterski is a Polish film and theatre director, screenwriter, actor, and playwright.
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Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk
- Enrolled in the University of Wroclaw
- 2003-2008 graduated with magister degree in pedagogy
- In 2009 studied philosophy
- Occupations
- philosopherpoliticianactivist
- Biography
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Agnieszka Ewa Dziemianowicz-Bąk [aɡˈɲɛʂka d͡ʑɛmjaˈnɔvit͡ʂ bɔŋk] is a Polish left-wing social activist and politician who has served as the Minister of Family, Labour and Social Policy since 2023. She has been a member of the Sejm since 2019.
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Jacek Sutryk
- Occupations
- politiciansociologist
- Biography
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Jacek Zbigniew Sutryk is a Polish politician and sociologist. He currently serves as the mayor of the city of Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland.
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Erich Mendelsohn
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- photographerarchitect
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Erich Mendelsohn; 21 March 1887 – 15 September 1953) was a German-British architect, known for his expressionist architecture in the 1920s, as well as for developing a dynamic functionalism in his projects for department stores and cinemas. Mendelsohn was a pioneer of the Art Deco and Streamline Moderne architecture, notably with his 1921 Mossehaus design.
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Leopold Kronecker
- Enrolled in the University of Wroclaw
- Studied in 1843-1844
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Leopold Kronecker was a German mathematician who worked on number theory, abstract algebra and logic, and criticized Georg Cantor's work on set theory. Heinrich Weber quoted Kronecker as having said, "Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk" ("God made the integers, all else is the work of man"). Kronecker was a student and life-long friend of Ernst Kummer.
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Charles Proteus Steinmetz
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- electrical engineermathematicianinventorphysicist
- Biography
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Charles Proteus Steinmetz was an American mathematician and electrical engineer and professor at Union College. He fostered the development of alternating current that made possible the expansion of the electric power industry in the United States, formulating mathematical theories for engineers. He made ground-breaking discoveries in the understanding of hysteresis that enabled engineers to design better electromagnetic apparatus equipment, especially electric motors for use in industry.
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Anna Zalewska
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- politician
- Biography
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Anna Elżbieta Zalewska is a Polish politician, and former Minister of National Education, serving 2015 to 2019. Since 2007, Zalewska has been a Member of the Sejm and she has worked there until a transition to the minister.
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Adolf Anderssen
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- non-fiction writerchess playerchess composer
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Karl Ernst Adolf Anderssen was a German chess master. He won the great international tournaments of 1851 and 1862, but lost matches to Paul Morphy in 1858, and to Wilhelm Steinitz in 1866. Accordingly, he is generally regarded as having been the world's leading chess player from 1851 to 1858, and leading active player from 1862 to 1866, although the title of World Chess Champion did not yet exist.
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Otto Stern
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- physicistuniversity teacherchemist
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Otto Stern was a German-American physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics. He was the second most nominated physicist for a Nobel Prize, with 82 nominations in the years 1925–1945 (most times nominated is Arnold Sommerfeld with 84 nominations), ultimately winning in 1943.
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Georg Michaelis
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- politicianjuristlawyer
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Georg Michaelis was the imperial chancellor of the German Empire for a few months in 1917. He was the first (and, in the German Empire, the only) commoner to hold the post. With an economic background in business, Michaelis' main achievement was to encourage the ruling classes to open peace talks with Russia. Contemplating that the end of the war was near, he encouraged infrastructure development to facilitate recovery at war's end through the media of Mitteleuropa. A somewhat humourless character, known for process engineering, Michaelis was faced with insurmountable problems of logistics and supply in his brief period as chancellor.
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Marek Krajewski
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- writerclassical philologist
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Marek Krajewski is a Polish crime writer and linguist.
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Carl Wernicke
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- physicianneurologistanatomistpsychiatristuniversity teacher
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Carl Wernicke was a German physician, anatomist, psychiatrist and neuropathologist. He is known for his influential research into the pathological effects of specific forms of encephalopathy and also the study of receptive aphasia, both of which are commonly associated with Wernicke's name and referred to as Wernicke encephalopathy and Wernicke's aphasia, respectively. His research, along with that of Paul Broca, led to groundbreaking realizations of the localization of brain function, specifically in speech. As such, Wernicke's area (a.k.a. Wernicke's Speech Area) has been named after the scientist.
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Prince Friedrich Christian, Margrave of Meissen
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- ruler
- Biography
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Albert Leopold Friedrich Christian Sylvester Anno Macarius, Prince of Saxony, Duke of Saxony, Margrave of Meissen was the second son of Frederick Augustus III, the last reigning king of Saxony before the abolition of the monarchy in 1918. Upon his father's death in 1932, he became the head of the Royal House of Saxony. He was Captain à la suite in the Royal Bulgarian Infantry, and Grand Master of the Order of the Rue Crown, and also a Knight in the Order of the Black Eagle and Knight Grand Cross in the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. As head of the Albertine branch of the House of Wettin after 1932, he styled himself as Friedrich Christian, Margrave of Meissen.
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Heinz von Foerster
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- university teacherphysicistcomputer scientistphilosophermathematician
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Heinz von Foerster was an Austrian-American scientist combining physics and philosophy, and widely attributed as the originator of second-order cybernetics. He was twice a Guggenheim fellow (1956–57 and 1963–64) and also was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1980. He is well known for his 1960 Doomsday equation formula published in Science predicting future population growth.
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Jan Kasprowicz
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- literary historianplaywrightprofessorpoetwriter
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Jan Kasprowicz was a poet, playwright, critic and translator; a foremost representative of Young Poland.
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Gustav Freytag
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- novelistpoliticianwriterjournalistplaywright
- Biography
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Gustav Freytag was a German novelist and playwright.
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Ferdinand von Richthofen
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- exploreruniversity teachervolcanologistgeographergeologist
- Biography
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Ferdinand Freiherr von Richthofen, better known in English as Baron von Richthofen, was a German traveller, geographer, and scientist. He is noted for coining the terms "Seidenstraße" and "Seidenstraßen" = "Silk Road(s)" or "Silk Route(s)" in 1877. He also standardized the practices of chorography and chorology.
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Jan Miodek
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- university teachernormative grammarianlinguisttelevision personality
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Jan Franciszek Miodek, is a Polish linguist, a prescriptive grammarian and a Professor of Wrocław University. He is regarded as one of the most prominent educators and promoters of the standard Polish language.
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Adam Asnyk
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- politicianwriterplaywrightpoet
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Adam Asnyk, was a Polish poet and dramatist of the Positivist era.
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Kamil Bortniczuk
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- politicianspokespersonjurist
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Kamil Bortniczuk is a Polish politician, member of the VIII and IX Sejm as a member of the Agreement political party, within the Law and Justice parliamentary club as part of the United Right coalition. He represents the Opole constituency. In October 2021 he became the Polish Minister of Sport and Tourism.
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Jarosław Kuźniar
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- journalisttelevision presenter
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Jarosław Kuźniar is a Polish television and radio presenter. Connected with TVN and TVN24 from 2010 to 2016 c. He has been the host of TV show X Factor in 2011 and 2012.
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Jarosław Szymczyk
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- linguistpolice officer
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Jarosław Jakub Szymczyk is a Polish police officer in rank of Inspector General, who served as the Commander-in-Chief of Police between 2016 and 2023.
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Georg, Crown Prince of Saxony
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- Catholic priestpriestmilitary officer
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Georg, Crown Prince of Saxony or George the last Crown Prince of Saxony, was the heir to the King of Saxony, Frederick Augustus III, at the time of the monarchy's abolition on 13 November 1918. He later became a Roman Catholic priest and a Jesuit.
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Richard Courant
- Enrolled in the University of Wroclaw
- Studied in 1905-1907
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- physicistuniversity teachermathematician
- Biography
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Richard Courant was a German-American mathematician. He is best known by the general public for the book What is Mathematics?, co-written with Herbert Robbins. His research focused on the areas of real analysis, mathematical physics, the calculus of variations and partial differential equations. He wrote textbooks widely used by generations of students of physics and mathematics. He is also known for founding the institute now bearing his name.
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Michał Witkowski
- Enrolled in the University of Wroclaw
- In 1999 graduated with magister degree in Polish studies
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- amateur actorjournalistliterary criticwriterprose writer
- Biography
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Michał Witkowski is a Polish novelist.
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Adam Hofman
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- politicianpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Adam Hofman is a Polish public relations professional and a former politician. He graduated with a degree in political science from the University of Wrocław in 2004 and was actively involved in student politics, serving as the chairman of the Student Forum at his university. In 2022 Hofman graduated from Harvard Business School.
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Johannes Zukertort
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- journalistchess player
- Biography
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Johannes Hermann Zukertort was a Polish-born British-German chess master. He was one of the leading world players for most of the 1870s and 1880s, but lost to Wilhelm Steinitz in the World Chess Championship 1886, which is generally regarded as the first World Chess Championship match. He was also defeated by Steinitz in 1872 in an unofficial championship.
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Joanna Bator
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- writerjournalistsociologist
- Biography
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Joanna Bator is a Polish novelist, journalist, feminist and academic. She specializes in cultural anthropology and gender studies. She is the recipient of the 2013 Nike Award, Poland's top literature prize.
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Jacek Protasiewicz
- Enrolled in the University of Wroclaw
- Studied Polish studies
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jacek Protasiewicz is a Polish politician. Graduated from Wroclaw University where in the 80s of 20th century was a leader of anti communist student organization (NZS). In 1995 was an international fellow at the Kettering Foundation based in Dayton, Ohio. He was a local leader of a liberal party (KL-D) in 1994 and then the Union of Freedom - the party led by a first non-communist Prime Minister of Poland. In 2001 he was a cofounder and a local leader of Civic Platform - a party led by Donald Tusk - later Prime Minister of Poland and Head of the European Council. First time elected to a regional assembly in 1998 and then to the Polish Parliament in 2001. In 2004 he was elected to the European Parliament where he served as Chair of Delegation for Belarus (2007-2012) and as the Vice-President 2012-2014 in charge for relations with parliaments of Eastern Partnership countries as well as with NATO Parliamentary Assembly. He was the Head of the presidential election campaign of Donald Tusk in 2005 and the Civic Platform election campaign in 2011. In 2015 elected again to Polish Parliament and re-elected in 2019. Nowadays he serves as a Deputy Head of the Polish Coalition caucus in Polish Parliament and member of Committee for European Union Affairs and Committee for Public Finance.
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Bogdan Zdrojewski
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- politician
- Biography
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Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski [ˈbɔɡdan zdrɔˈjɛfskʲi] is a Polish politician, mayor of Wrocław from 1990 to 2001, and Minister of Culture and National Heritage from 2007 till 2014. He has also been member of the Polish and of the European Parliament.
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Ulas Samchuk
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- writerjournalistopinion journalist
- Biography
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Ulas Oleksiiovych Samchuk was a Ukrainian writer, poet, publicist, [[journalist, writer, editor, UMMAN laureate, member of the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile, member of “Slovo OUP”. Founder and editor of the Rivne newspaper "Volyn". Head of “MUR”. He was a member of the “OUN”. After the split, the OUN remained on the side of Andrii Melnyk, the head of the “PUN” regiment.]]. He was a member of the nationalistic Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, and ]].
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Magdalena Łazarkiewicz
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- screenwriterfilm directoractor
- Biography
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Magdalena Łazarkiewicz, née Holland is a Polish film director and screenwriter.
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Józef Pinior
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- political activistuniversity teacherpoliticiantrade unionistjurist
- Biography
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Józef Pinior is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Lower Silesian Voivodship & Opole Voivodship with the Social Democracy of Poland, part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Development.
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Gotthold Eisenstein
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- university teacherscientistmathematician
- Biography
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Ferdinand Gotthold Max Eisenstein was a German mathematician who made significant contributions to number theory and analysis. Born in Berlin, Prussia, to Jewish parents who converted to Protestantism before his birth, Eisenstein displayed exceptional mathematical talent from a young age.
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Ferdinand Cohn
- Enrolled in the University of Wroclaw
- Studied in 1844-1846
- Occupations
- university teacherbacteriologistbotanistmicrobiologist
- Biography
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Ferdinand Julius Cohn was a German biologist. He is one of the founders of modern bacteriology and microbiology.
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Robert Kropiwnicki
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- politician
- Biography
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Robert Kropiwnicki is a Polish politician. He has been a member of the Sejm since 2010 representing the constituency of Legnica. In 2010, he replaced Janusz Mikulicz in the Sejm (6th term) and Kropiwnicki was re-elected in 2011 and in 2015 (7th and 8th term of the Sejm respectively). In 2019 parliamentary election, he was again elected to the Sejm (9th term). He is affiliated with the Civic Platform party. In 2023 parliamentary election he was reelected to the Sejm with 31,838 votes. In the same year he was elected by the Sejm to the National Council of the Judiciary.
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Edward Lasker
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- non-fiction writer
- Biography
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Edward Lasker was a German-American chess and Go player. He was awarded the title of International Master of chess by FIDE. Lasker was an engineer by profession, and an author of books on Go, chess and checkers. Born in Prussia, he emigrated to the United States in 1914. He was distantly related to World Chess Champion Emanuel Lasker with whom he is sometimes confused.
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Curt Bräuer
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- politiciandiplomatjurist
- Biography
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Curt Bräuer was a German career diplomat.
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Friedrich Bergius
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- university teacherchemist
- Biography
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Friedrich Karl Rudolf Bergius was a German chemist known for the Bergius process for producing synthetic fuel from coal, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1931, together with Carl Bosch) in recognition of contributions to the invention and development of chemical high-pressure methods. Having worked with IG Farben during World War II, his citizenship came into question following the war, causing him to ultimately flee to Argentina, where he acted as adviser to the Ministry of Industry.
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Romuald Szeremietiew
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- journalistpolitician
- Biography
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Romuald Szeremietiew is a Polish politician, columnist, habilitated doctor of military sciences and associated professor at the Academy of National Defense and the War Studies Academy. He was a founding member of the Confederation of Independent Poland, an anti-communist, Sanationist independence movement. He became a member of the Sejm in 1997 and served as the Minister of National Defense in 1992 and Vice-minister in 1997.
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Oscar Troplowitz
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- politicianpharmacistentrepreneurpharmacologist
- Biography
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Oscar Troplowitz was a German pharmacist and entrepreneur.
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Heinrich Graetz
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- university teachertheologianhistorianphilologistrabbi
- Biography
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Heinrich Graetz was a German exegete and one of the first historians to write a comprehensive history of the Jewish people from a Jewish perspective.
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Abraham Fraenkel
- Enrolled in the University of Wroclaw
- Studied in 1912-1913
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Abraham Fraenkel was a German-born Israeli mathematician. He was an early Zionist and the first Dean of Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is known for his contributions to axiomatic set theory, especially his additions to Ernst Zermelo's axioms, which resulted in the Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory.
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Klementyna Suchanow
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- editorwritertranslatoractivist
- Biography
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Klementyna Suchanow [suxa'nɔf] is a Polish author, editor, and activist. She is the co-founder of the women's rights movement All-Poland Women's Strike.
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Dawid Jackiewicz
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- politician
- Biography
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Dawid Bohdan Jackiewicz is a Polish politician, and the former Minister of State Treasury (2015–2016).
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Jolanta Fedak
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jolanta Beata Fedak was a Polish politician who served as Minister of Labour and Social Policy from 2007 to 2011.
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Leon Kieres
- Enrolled in the University of Wroclaw
- 1966-1970 graduated with magister degree in jurisprudence
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacherlawyerjudgejurist
- Biography
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Leon Kieres is a Polish lawyer and politician. He was the president of the Instytut Pamięci Narodowej (Institute of National Remembrance) (8 June 2000 – 22 December 2005), a judge of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal.
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Johann Dzierzon
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- beekeeperentomologist
- Biography
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Johann Dzierzon, or Jan Dzierżon [ˈjan ˈd͡ʑɛrʐɔn] or Dzierżoń [ˈd͡ʑɛrʐɔɲ], also John Dzierzon, was a Polish apiarist who discovered the phenomenon of parthenogenesis in bees.
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Albert Neisser
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- university teacherphysicianpathologistdermatologist
- Biography
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Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser was a German physician who discovered the causative agent (pathogen) of gonorrhea, a strain of bacteria that was named in his honour (Neisseria gonorrhoeae).
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Marcin Rozynek
- Occupations
- singersongwriter
- Biography
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Marcin Rozynek is a Polish rock vocalist, songwriter, and music producer. He has released six albums, two of them recorded with the band Atmosphere. He has also cooperated with Grzegorz Ciechowski.
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Bodo Kox
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- screenwriterfilm directoractor
- Biography
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Bodo Kox, is a Polish film director, actor, and screenwriter, known for award-winning feature films The Girl from the Wardrobe (2013) and The Man with the Magic Box (2017).
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Heinz Hopf
- Enrolled in the University of Wroclaw
- Studied in 1913-1914
- Occupations
- topologistuniversity teachermathematician
- Biography
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Heinz Hopf was a German mathematician who worked on the fields of dynamical systems, topology and geometry.
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Kurd Lasswitz
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- teacherphysicistwriterscience fiction writerphilosopher
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Kurd Lasswitz was a German author, scientist, and philosopher. He has been called "the father of German science fiction". He sometimes used the pseudonym Velatus.
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Agnieszka Smoczyńska
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- screenwriterfilm directortheatrical director
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Agnieszka Smoczyńska is a Polish film and television writer and director. She is an alumnus of the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School in Katowice. Her debut feature film, The Lure (2015), was re-released by The Criterion Collection in 2017, also including the short films Aria Diva (2007) and Viva Maria! (2010). In 2022, she won Golden Lions Award at the Gdynia Film Festival for her 4th feature, The Silent Twins.
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Władysław Stasiak
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- politician
- Biography
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Władysław Augustyn Stasiak was a Polish senior state and local government official.
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Alexander von Middendorff
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- zoologistphysicianexplorerornithologistbotanist
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Alexander Theodor von Middendorff was a Russian zoologist and explorer of Baltic German and Estonian extraction. He was known for his expedition in 1843–45 to the extreme north and east of Siberia, describing the effects of permafrost on the spread of animals and plants.
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Carl Brockelmann
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- orientalistuniversity teacherlinguist
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Carl Brockelmann German Semiticist, was the foremost orientalist of his generation. He was a professor at the universities in Breslau, Berlin and, from 1903, Königsberg. He is best known for his multi-volume Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur (first published 1898–1902) ('History of Arabic literature') which included all writers in Arabic to 1937, and remains the fundamental reference volume for all Arabic literature, apart from the Christian Arabic texts (covered by Georg Graf).
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Aleksandra Przegalińska
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- opinion journalistfuturistphilosopher
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Aleksandra Katarzyna Przegalińska-Skierkowska is a Polish futurist. She is an associate professor of management and artificial intelligence as well as a vice-rector at Kozminski University.
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Lorentzos Mavilis
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- translatorpoliticianwritermilitary personnelchess player
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Lorentzos Mavilis was a Greek sonneteer, war poet, and chess problems composer. He is best known for his sonnets.
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Adolf Engler
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- botanical collectortaxonomistbotanistcuratoruniversity teacher
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Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler was a German botanist. He is notable for his work on plant taxonomy and phytogeography, such as Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien (The Natural Plant Families), edited with Karl A. E. von Prantl.
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Barbara Labuda
- Enrolled in the University of Wroclaw
- In 1970 graduated with magister degree in Romance studies
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- politicianuniversity teacherdissidentdiplomatromanist
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Barbara Lidia Labuda is a Polish politician, activist, diplomat and philologist. She was elected to the Contract Sejm, and was a member of the Sejm until 1996, when she became a minister in the Chancellery of President Aleksander Kwaśniewski. From 2005 to 2010, she was the Polish ambassador to Luxembourg.
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Johannes Aventinus
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- university teacherhistorianphilologist
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Johann Georg Turmair, known by the pen name Johannes Aventinus (Latin for "John of Abensberg") or Aventin, was a Bavarian Renaissance humanist historian and philologist. He authored the 1523 Annals of Bavaria, a valuable record of the early history of Germany.
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Walerian Pańko
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- jurist
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Janusz Walerian Pańko was a Polish lawyer, and professor of legal science. An activist of the democratic opposition during the People's Republic of Poland, a member of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland (X term), he died while serving as president of the NIK, Poland's Supreme Audit Office.
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Rafał Kubacki
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- judokaactor
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Rafał Andrzej Kubacki is a Polish judoka.
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Edmund Bojanowski
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- opinion journalistland ownerphilanthropist
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Edmund Bojanowski was a Polish Roman Catholic and the founder of four separate religious congregations. He studied art and literature during his education in Breslau and Berlin before distinguishing himself during a cholera epidemic in which he tended to the ill. Bojanowski founded several orphanages and libraries for the poor and even worked in them to provide for those people. But his main desire was to enter the priesthood: ill health blocked this once and his own death prevented his second attempt after his deteriorating health forced him to stop his ecclesial studies.
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Martin Wilhelm Kutta
- Enrolled in the University of Wroclaw
- Studied in 1885-1890
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- engineeruniversity teachermathematician
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Martin Wilhelm Kutta was a German mathematician. In 1901, he co-developed the Runge–Kutta method, used to solve ordinary differential equations numerically. He is also remembered for the Zhukovsky–Kutta aerofoil, the Kutta–Zhukovsky theorem and the Kutta condition in aerodynamics.
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Heinrich Albertz
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- pastorpoliticiantheologian
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Heinrich Albertz was a German Protestant theologian, priest and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He served as Governing Mayor of Berlin (West Berlin) from 1966 to 1967.
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Stanisław Huskowski
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- politician
- Biography
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Stanisław Tadeusz Huskowski is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 12,334 votes in 3 Wrocław district as a candidate from the Civic Platform list.
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Heinrich Wilhelm Dove
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- university teacherphysicistclimatologistmeteorologist
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Heinrich Wilhelm Dove was a Prussian physicist and meteorologist.
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Rudolf von Scheliha
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- resistance fighterpoliticiandiplomat
- Biography
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Rudolf "Dolf" von Scheliha was a German aristocrat, cavalry officer and diplomat who became a resistance fighter and anti-Nazi who was linked to the Red Orchestra.
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Janusz Dobrosz
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- politician
- Biography
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Janusz Konrad Dobrosz is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 14,655 votes in 3 Wrocław district as a candidate from the League of Polish Families list.
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Wojciech Żukrowski
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- poetliterary criticscreenwriterwriterjournalist
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Wojciech Żukrowski was a Polish prosaist, poet, reporter, essayist and literary critic.
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Jerzy Janicki
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- writerjournalistscreenwriter
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Jerzy Janicki was a Polish writer, journalist and scriptwriter. Author of many radio auditions, among them most famous is the radio drama Matysiakowie. He wrote many books about Kresy, particularly about the city of Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine).
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Herbert Weichmann
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- journalistpolitician
- Biography
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Herbert Weichmann was a German lawyer and politician (Social Democratic Party) and First Mayor of Hamburg (1965–1971). In his position as mayor of Hamburg, he served as President of the Bundesrat (1968–1969).
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Paul Gordan
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- mathematicianuniversity teacher
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Paul Albert Gordan was a German mathematician known for work in invariant theory and for the Clebsch–Gordan coefficients and Gordan's lemma. He was called "the king of invariant theory". His most famous result is that the ring of invariants of binary forms of fixed degree is finitely generated. Clebsch–Gordan coefficients are named after him and Alfred Clebsch. Gordan also served as the thesis advisor for Emmy Noether.
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Urszula Kozioł
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- poetwriter
- Biography
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Urszula Kozioł is a Polish poet and writer. She is a recipient of the Silesius Poetry Award (2011) and the Nike Award (2024).
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Elżbieta Polak
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- politician
- Biography
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Elżbieta Anna Polak is a Polish politician from the Civic Platform who served as the Marshal of Lubusz Voivodeship from November 2010 to October 2023.
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Major Waldemar Fydrych
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- artistart historianpolitical activist
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Waldemar Andrzej Fydrych "Major" is a Polish activist and founding leader of the Orange Alternative movement in Poland.
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Alfons Zgrzebniok
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- politician
- Biography
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Alfons Alfred Zgrzebniok was a Polish teacher, activist, and politician from Silesia. He was one of the cofounders of the Silesian Insurgent Association in the early 1920s and also helped organize the Association for Defense of the Western Border and the Committee for the Defense of Upper Silesia. He commanded the Polish-Silesian forces in both the First and Second Silesian Uprising. He was the recipient of several awards and several schools and other landmarks in Poland are named after him. He has also been the subject of a number of poems and songs.
