People

Architect, Italian sculptor. He died in 1516 in Kraków. He came to Poland from Hungary as the first Italian Renaissance artist. The royal builder and architect worked at the courts of King Aleksander Jagiellończyk, Elżbieta Rakuszanka, the wife of Sigismund I the Old. His greatest work was the construction of

Literary critic, poet, teacher, political activist. He studied philosophy at the Jagiellonian University and the Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv. His activity in the Independent Academic Union of Socialist Youth “Życie” led to his arrest in 1925 and his imprisonment for several months in the St. Michala. He was a

Priest, prelate, pastor of the Wawel Cathedral, prelate, born and died in Krakow in 1903-1983. He entered the theological seminary in Krakow and studied theology at the Jagiellonian University. In 1925 he has ordained a priest and a year later he graduated from the university, obtaining the title of doctor.

An officer of the Polish Army, Brigadier General, head of the Kedyw of the Home Army Headquarters, born in Krakow in 1895, died in Warsaw in 1953. During World War I, he served in the machine gun division, along with the 1st Brigade of Legions he went through the entire

Printer, bookseller and publisher. He was also a cantor in a progressive synagogue. One of the initiators of the organization of the Jewish Theater in Krakow. He ran a Hebrew printing house at 62 Grodzka Street, which was later taken over by his son Maurycy and transformed it into a

Doctor, writer and activist of the workers ‘and peasants’ movement. He was born in Ukraine in 1886, died in Warsaw in 1972. He worked in various factories in the USA, where he also studied medicine and received a doctoral degree. He was active in the American Socialist Party. After his

One of the most famous magicians of medieval Europe, an outstanding astrologer. German and English sources say that Faust studied magic at the University of Krakow. This is denied by Henryk Barycz in his work “An angry and rebellious historian”. In those years, magic was practiced in almost all public

Painter, born in 1853 in Tuligłów near Mościska, died in 1929 in Bystra. He studied at the SSP, studied polytechnics in Zurich and Munich, then in Switzerland he was a draftsman at the construction of a railway. Then he studied painting at the Munich Academy. He traveled a lot in

Doctor, social activist, cultural activist, born in Zurich in 1916, died in Radków Kłodzki in 1991, son of Tadeusz. After graduating from high school, he studied medicine at the Jagiellonian University. Immediately after the war, an assistant at the Department of Anatomy at the Faculty of Medicine of the Jagiellonian

Musicologist, son of Tadeusz, born in 1917 in Freiburg, died in 1993 in Geneva. He studied at the Sobieski and Nowodworski Gymnasiums and at the Conservatory, then he studied at the Jagiellonian University. He worked part-time at Polish Radio – he was a speaker who, in September 1939, uttered the