Rudolf Weigl

Rudolf Weigl

male, deceased (1957)
World War II, Weigl Institute, Rudolf Stefan Weigl, Biologist, inventor, Přerov…UniversityofLwow, Doctor of Medicine
Professor Rudolf Stefan Weigl was a famous Polish biologist and inventor of the first effective vaccine for epidemic typhus. Born in Přerov, M...
Zygmunt Janiszewski

Zygmunt Janiszewski

male, deceased (1920)
influenza pandemic, Fundamenta Mathematicae, UniversityofLwow, topology, University of Warsaw, topologist
Zygmunt Janiszewski was a Polish mathematician. Janiszewski taught at the University of Lwów and was professor at the University of Warsaw. At the o...
Mark Kac

Mark Kac

male, deceased (1984)
rockefeller university, Russian Empire, UniversityofLwow, American, Lwów School of Mathematics, Stanislaw Marcin Ulam…Cornell University faculty, University of Southern California, Cornell University
Mark Kac (pronounced "kahts",, b. 3 August 1914, Krzemieniec, then in the Russian Empire, now in Ukraine; d. 26 October1984, California, USA) was a...
Szymon Askenazy

Szymon Askenazy

male, deceased (1935)
historian, Polish Academy of Sciences, polish, Polish Academy of Learning, diplomat, Jewish person…League of Nations, Partitions of Poland, UniversityofLwow, University of Lviv, Lwów-Warsaw School of History
Szymon Askenazy was a Polish historian, diplomat and politician, founder of the Askenazy school. Starting in 1902, he served as a professor at the...
Maciej Rataj

Maciej Rataj

male, deceased (1940)
Acting President of the Republic of Poland, Zamość, UniversityofLwow, Lwow, Political parties, Second Polish Republic…Marshall of the Sejm, member of parliament, President of Poland, Sejm Marshal of the Second Polish Republic
Maciej Rataj was a Polish politician, president, socialist activist and writer. He was executed by Nazi Germany. Born in the Chłopy village near L...
Raphael Lemkin

Raphael Lemkin

male, deceased (1959)
-cide, Jewish person, lawyer, Duke University faculty, polish, genocide…Institute of Advanced Study, doctorate from the University of Heidelburg, lecturer at the University of Stockholm, League of Nations, University of Stockholm
Raphael Lemkin and "-cide" (Latin for killing). He first used the word in print in "Axis Rule in Occupied Europe: Laws of Occupation - Analysis of...

Kazimierz Michałowski

male, deceased (1981)
Warsaw University alumni, Deir el-Bahari, Archaeologist, Egyptian, Polish Academy of Sciences, polish…University of Warsaw, UniversityofLwow
Kazimierz Michałowski was a Polish archaeologist and Egyptologist, and the founder of Nubiology. Michałowski studied classical archeology and art hi...
Oswald Balzer

Oswald Balzer

male, deceased (1933)
historian, polish, lawyer, rector, UniversityofLwow, Lwow…Polish Academy of Skills, historian of law
Oswald Marian Balzer was a Polish historian of law and statehood, one of the most renowned Polish historians of his times. In 1887 he became a...

Piotr Ignacy Bieńkowski

male, deceased (1925)
professor, Archaeologist, polish, krakow, jagiellonian university, University of Berlin…UniversityofLwow, University of Krakow, Mount of Isis
Piotr Ignacy Bieńkowski was a Polish classical scholar and archaeologist, professor of Jagiellonian University. Bieńkowski studied classical ph...

Artur Rodziński

male, deceased (1958)
Spalato, Teatr Wielki, Warsaw, it was, Literary Digest, dalmatia, galicia…UniversityofLwow, Lwow, university there, Vienna Academy of Music
Artur Rodziński was a Polish conductor. He was born of Polish parents in Spalato, Dalmatia, today's Split, Croatia. He grew up in Lwów, Galicia, no...