Ksawery Faustyn Ignacy Zakrzewski (15 February 1876 in Wełna ow Goślinowo">Goślinowo.html" ;"title="ow Goślinowo">ow Goślinowo– 18 November 1915 in Poznań) was a Polish physician, independence activist, director of Poznań's Polish Sokol movement, Polish Gymnastic Society "Falcon", co-editor of biweekly magazine ''Sokół'', co-founder (with [

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) of magazine ''Kurier Poznański''. According to

Bernard Chrzanowski Bernard Chrzanowski (27 July 1861, Wojnowice - 12 December 1944, Konstancin-Jeziorna) was a Polish social and political activist, president of the Union of the Greater Poland Falcons (Związek Sokołów Wielkopolskich) "Sokół". References * W ...

, Zakrzewski was an initiator and co-creator of

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Greater Poland Greater Poland, often known by its Polish name Wielkopolska (; german: Großpolen, sv, Storpolen, la, Polonia Maior), is a historical region of west-central Poland. Its chief and largest city is Poznań followed by Kalisz, the oldest city ...

. He was one of the main organiser of

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in the

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of Poland.

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