People

Painter, born in Nuremberg, died in Kraków. Brother of the famous painter Albrecht Dürer, who looked after Hans and educated him in his studio for Emperor Maximilian I. He probably stayed in Silesia in the years 1522-1524, where he painted for churches in Wrocław, Nysa and Marszowice. From 1527 he

Illuminator and painter, he came to Krakow from Silesia. He was closely related to Jan Długosz, the chapter and the royal court, he called himself “pictor et illuminator regius”. Towards the end of his life, he was ordained a minor priest. Author of images of 56 Teutonic banners captured at

sculptor born in Krakow. He studied at the School of Fine Arts. In the years 1904-1910 he was a professor of sculpture at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts, after which he returned to Krakow. In 1914 he went to London, and then to France. He served in the Bayonne

Politician, economist born in Stanisławów, died in Kraków. Until 1842 he studied economics at the universities of Lviv and Vienna. He worked as an assistant at the Department of Political Skills and Statistics at the Jagiellonian University, and in 1850 he obtained his doctorate in law at the Jagiellonian University,

The heroic peasant of Greater Poland, whose fight with the Prussian invader for the right to build a house on his own land made him famous throughout the country. He settled in Podgradowice near Rakoniewce, where in 1904 he bought a two-hectare plot with a pigsty and a barn. The

Doctor of chemistry, outstanding activist of the workers’ movement, born and died in Kraków. Grandfather and his parents took part in the uprisings. As a student, Bolesław joined the “Promień” socialist youth organization. In 1898 he joined the PPSD, then an activist of the PPS and PZPR. Spokesman for the

Bandtkie Jerzy Samuel was an outstanding bibliographer, linguist and researcher of Silesia. He was born in 1768 in Lublin and died in 1835 in Kraków. For some time he taught Polish in Wrocław. In 1811 he moved to Krakow, where he obtained a doctorate from the Jagiellonian University. Later, he

Janiszewski Tomasz Wiktor was a doctor, hygienist, social activist, professor at the Jagiellonian University and the University of Warsaw, as well as the first minister of health in reborn Poland. He was born in 1867 in Warsaw and died in 1939 in Brok on the Bug River. From 1886 he

Jachimecki Zdzisław was a musicologist, art historian and composer, born in 1882 in Lviv. He died in 1953 in Krakow. He studied in Vienna for 4 years, and later lectured at the Jagiellonian University. He has published in various scientific journals, encyclopedias and dictionaries. He also composed choral and solo

Novelist, social activist, born in Wola Okrzejska in Podlasie, died in Vevey, Switzerland. He studied law and historical sciences at the Main School in Warsaw. He collaborated with many magazines such as “Niwa”, “Word”, “Gazeta Polska” and others. During the war, he stayed in Switzerland. His novels such as “Quo