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Janusz Gołąb
Janusz is a masculine Polish given name. It is also the shortened form of January and Januarius. People * Janusz Akermann (born 1957), Polish painter * Janusz Bardach, Polish gulag survivor and physician * Janusz Bielański, Roman Catholic priest * Janusz Bojarski (born 1956), Polish general * Janusz Bokszczanin (1894–1973), Polish Army colonel * Janusz Brzozowski (1935–2019), Polish-Canadian computer scientist *Janusz Christa (1934–2008), Polish author of comic books * Janusz Domaniewski (1891–1954), Polish ornithologist *Janusz Gajos, Polish actor *Janusz Gaudyn (1935–1984), Polish physician, writer and poet * Janusz Głowacki (1938–2017), Polish-American author and screenwriter * Janusz Grabowski (born 1955), Polish mathematician * Janusz Janowski (born 1965), Polish painter, jazz drummer and art theorist *Janusz Kamiński (born 1959), Polish cinematographer and film director *Janusz Korczak (Henryk Goldszmit), Polish-Jewish children's author, pediatrician, and c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukraine to the east, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south, and Germany to the west. The territory has a varied landscape, diverse ecosystems, and a temperate climate. Poland is composed of Voivodeships of Poland, sixteen voivodeships and is the fifth most populous member state of the European Union (EU), with over 38 million people, and the List of European countries by area, fifth largest EU country by area, covering . The capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city is Warsaw; other major cities include Kraków, Wrocław, Łódź, Poznań, and Gdańsk. Prehistory and protohistory of Poland, Prehistoric human activity on Polish soil dates to the Lower Paleolithic, with continuous settlement since the end of the Last Gla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janusz Gaudyn
Janusz Gaudyn (25 February 1935 – 22 June 1984) was a Polish physician, writer and poet. He is known mostly for his aphorisms. Biography Gaudyn lived since 1939 in the Trans-Olza region and spent his youth in Fryštát. He graduated from the Juliusz Słowacki Polish Gymnasium in Orlová and later from medical studies at the Palacký University in Olomouc. He worked as an internist in the hospital in Český Těšín and later as a general practitioner A general practitioner (GP) is a doctor who is a Consultant (medicine), consultant in general practice. GPs have distinct expertise and experience in providing whole person medical care, whilst managing the complexity, uncertainty and risk ass ... in Střítež, he lived in Třinec. Gaudyn was a member of the Polish Cultural and Educational Union and several literary organizations. Works * ''Fraszki i fraszeczki'' (1967) * ''Zdania'' (1969) * ''Duet'' (1969) (together with Gabriel Palowski) * ''List'' (1980) * ''M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janusz Pasierb
Janusz Stanisław Pasierb (7 January 1929 – 15 December 1993) was a Polish Catholic priest, poet and writer, historian. Further reading * "Prace ks. J. St. Pasierba" in ''XX lat Akademii Teologii Katolickiej. Księga pamiątkowa 1954–1974'' (ed. Hieronim Eugeniusz Wyczaw) * Henryk Mross, "Materiały do bibliografii osobowej pracowników naukowo-dydaktycznych Wyższego Seminarium Duchownego w Pelplinie" in ''Studia Pelplińskie'' 1977, pp. 355–394. * Józef Mandziuk, "Bibliografia prac ks. prof. dra hab. Janusza Stanisława Pasierba" in ''Saeculum Christianum'' nr 1, pp. 29–42. * Henryk Mross, "Publikacje Księdza Profesora Janusza St. Pasierba" in ''Pomorskie drogi ks. Janusza Pasierba'' (ed. B. Wiśniewski), Pelplin: Bernardinum, 1994, pp. 327–356. * Józef Mandziuk, "Pasierb Janusz Stanisław" in ''Słownik polskich teologów katolickich 1981–1993, t. 8'', Warszawa: Akademia Teologii Katolickiej, 1995, pp. 429–440. * Henryk Mross, ''Pracownicy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janusz Paluszkiewicz
Janusz Paluszkiewicz (20 March 1912 – 19 February 1990) was a Polish actor. He appeared in more than 50 films and television shows between 1952 and 1988. Filmography References External links * 1912 births 1990 deaths Polish male film actors Male actors from Łódź Recipients of the Medal of the 40th Anniversary of the People's Republic of Poland {{Poland-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janusz Olejniczak
Janusz Olejniczak (; 2 October 1952 – 20 October 2024) was a Polish classical pianist, academic teacher and actor. He made an international career as a pianist, especially with the piano music of Chopin which he played on modern and period instruments. He portrayed the composer in the 1991 film ', and played piano music in the 2002 film '' The Pianist'', also appearing as the hand double. Life and career Olejniczak was born in Wrocław on 2 October 1952. He began playing piano at the age of six. The family moved to Warsaw where he had piano lessons from Luiza Walewska; he was trained by Ryszard Bakst and Zbigniew Drzewiecki from 1967 to 1969. In 1970, he placed sixth in the VIII International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, and two years later he placed fourth in the Alfredo Casella Piano Competition in Naples. He studied in Paris with Constantine Schmaeling and Witold Małcużyński from 1971 to 1973. He returned to Poland where he studied at the Higher State Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janusz Meissner
Janusz Meissner (pen name: "''porucznik'' Herbert," English: "Flt Lt Herbert"; 21 January 1901 in Warsaw – 28 February 1978 in Kraków) was a Polish writer and journalist, and a pilot of Polish Air Force. Life In late 1919 Meissner completed pilot training at Kraków's Lower Pilot School (''Niższa Szkoła Pilotów''), and in March 1920, at Poznań's Higher Pilot School (''Wyższa Szkoła Pilotów''). From July 1920 he served in the Polish-Soviet War, in the newly formed ''Toruńska Eskadra Wywiadowcza'' (Toruń Reconnaissance Squadron) in the rank of pilot sergeant. For his combat flight of 16 July 1920, he was decorated with the – newly introduced – Cross of Valor, and promoted to lieutenant. After the Polish-Soviet War he participated in the preparations for the Third Silesian Uprising and in actual terror operations beginning 2/3 May 1921, commanding a special-forces detachment of the Wawelberg Group. For his contribution to the success of the Uprising, he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janusz Magnuski
Janusz Magnuski (1933–1999) was a Polish author and military historian. His principal works document the development and deployment of Polish and Soviet armor utilized during World War II and he has been called "the world's most noted historian of Soviet tank history". He was one of the authoritative sources for documentation of the hardware on display in the Museum of the Polish Army located in Warsaw. He was born in Poland on August 12, 1933 and died of Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in Warsaw on November 6, 1999. Bibliography * J. Magnuski. ''Samochody Pancerne Wojska Polskiego 1918-1939'' (Armoured Cars of the Polish Army). WiS, Wyd. 1 edition, Warsaw (1993). * J. Magnuski. ''Czerwony Blitzkrieg, Wrzesien 1939: Sowieckie wojska pancerne w Polsce'' (Red blitzkrieg, September 1939; Soviet armoured divisions in Poland). Pelta, Wyd. 1 edition, Warsaw (1994). * J. Magnuski. ''Wozy bojowe Polskich Sił Zbrojnych 1940-1946 (w: Ilustrowana encyklopedia techniki wojskowej)'' (Armo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janusz Liberkowski
Janusz Liberkowski (born March 9, 1953, in Nowa Sól Nowa Sól is a city on the Oder River in Lubusz Voivodeship, western Poland. It is the capital of Nowa Sól County and had a population of 38,763 (2019). History The territory became part of the emerging Polish state in the 10th century, and foll ..., Poland) is the winner of the first season of the show '' American Inventor''. His invention was the Anecia Safety Capsule. He graduated from the Gdańsk University of Technology in Poland in 1981. In 1984 he and his family emigrated to the United States. Since 1985, he worked for several electronics manufacturing companies located in the Silicon Valley area. He specializes in highly complex problems and forward-looking technologies. Liberkowski improved existing products, provided technical product leadership and pioneered "industry firsts" in multiple industries. The Anecia Safety Capsule is just one of his inventions; he was awarded fourteen U.S patents and three other a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janusz Kurtyka
Janusz Marek Kurtyka (13 August 1960 – 10 April 2010) was a Polish historian, and from December 2005 until his death in the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash, the second president of the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN). Kurtyka was born in Kraków and obtained his degree in the History and Philosophy Department of the Jagiellonian University. He had been a historian at the Polish Academy of Sciences since 1985 where he specialized in Polish medieval and communist era history, modern history and historical methodology. He finished his PhD in 1995 and was habilitated in 2000. He was a contributor to '' Wielka Encyklopedia PWN'' and '' Polski Słownik Biograficzny'' (''Polish Biographical Dictionary'') and the author of more than 140 academic publications. In the People's Republic of Poland, Kurtyka was a member of the democratic opposition to communism and an activist with the Independent Students Union and the trade union Solidarity. Between 1989 and 2000 he was the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henryk Goldszmit
Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit (22 July 1878 or 1879 – 7 August 1942), was a History of the Jews in Poland, Polish Jewish pediatrician, educator, children's literature, children's author and pedagogy, pedagogue known as ''Pan Doktor'' ("Mr. Doctor") or ''Stary Doktor'' ("Old Doctor"). He was an early children's rights advocate, in 1919 drafting a children's constitution. After spending many years working as a principal of an orphanage in Warsaw, he moved in with his orphans when the orphanage was forced to move to Warsaw Ghetto, the ghetto, despite pleas from friends to flee the country. He was executed when the entire population of the institution was sent to the Treblinka extermination camp during the Grossaktion Warsaw (1942), Grossaktion Warschau of 1942. Biography Early life and education Korczak was born in Warsaw. He was unsure of his birth date, which is attributed to his father's failure to promptly acquire a birth certificate for him; his birth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janusz Korczak
Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit (22 July 1878 or 1879 – 7 August 1942), was a Polish Jewish pediatrician, educator, children's author and pedagogue known as ''Pan Doktor'' ("Mr. Doctor") or ''Stary Doktor'' ("Old Doctor"). He was an early children's rights advocate, in 1919 drafting a children's constitution. After spending many years working as a principal of an orphanage in Warsaw, he moved in with his orphans when the orphanage was forced to move to the ghetto, despite pleas from friends to flee the country. He was executed when the entire population of the institution was sent to the Treblinka extermination camp during the Grossaktion Warschau of 1942. Biography Early life and education Korczak was born in Warsaw. He was unsure of his birth date, which is attributed to his father's failure to promptly acquire a birth certificate for him; his birth date is 22 July of either 1878 or 1879. His parents were , a respected lawyer from a family of prop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janusz Kamiński
Janusz Zygmunt Kamiński (; born June 27, 1959) is a Polish cinematographer and director. He established a partnership with Steven Spielberg, working as a cinematographer of all of his films since 1993, winning one Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on his holocaust drama '' Schindler's List'', and another one for the World War II epic ''Saving Private Ryan''. Aside from a total of seven Academy Award nominations, he has also received five nominations from the BAFTA Awards, and six from the American Society of Cinematographers. In addition to his collaborations with Spielberg, he has also worked with Cameron Crowe, James L. Brooks, Julian Schnabel and John Krasinski. Kamiński has also worked in the field of directing, first with the horror film ''Lost Souls'' (2000), and the NBC series ''The Event'' (2011) and WE TV series ''The Divide'' (2014). In 2019, the American Society of Cinematographers included ''Schindler's List'' and ''Saving Private Ry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
