People

Poet, literary critic, translator. He died in Kraków and is buried in the Crypt of Merit at Skałka. A participant in the November Uprising, after its fall, he stayed in Lviv, where he took part in the local literary life, an underground activist of democratic unions, a member of the

A priest, educator, social activist, born in Dyckojno near Kaunas in Lithuania, died in Kraków. He came from a family of parochial nobility. After graduating from high school in Vilnius, he entered the 20th Missionaries’ Seminary in Krakow, and then was ordained a priest in Lviv. He became the provincial

Also known as Sendivogius Polonus, born in Sącz and died in Kraków. Alchemist and secretary of King Sigismund III and councilor of Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. He was also a mining specialist at the court of the German emperor. Known in the world at that time for his attempts

Ethnographer, historian, painter. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and at the Jagiellonian University. Initially, he worked as a teacher and then devoted himself to research on folklore and folk art. From 1926, he collaborated with the PAU Ethnographic Commission, from 1927 the curator, and in 1937-1965 he

A metallurgical engineer, inventor in the field of rolling, known as the Polish Bessemer, died in the USA. From the end of World War I until 1929, he lived in China, and there in Shanghai he organized and launched the first nail factory in China and a wire drawing mill.

In 1880, prince Aleksander Lubomirski, who lived in Paris, donated two million francs for the construction and maintenance of “a shelter for abandoned or bad boys”. Outside the city, at today’s no 27 Rakowicka Street in Krakow, a complex of buildings was erected thanks to the excellent designs of Tadeusz

Chemist, physicist and botanist, born in Kraków, died in Krzemieniec. A graduate of the Krakow Academy, where in 1779 he obtained a doctorate in philosophy, from 1780 he was a physics teacher in Lublin, then in Krakow, he taught physics, natural history and craftsmanship at the Main Schools. During his

Lawyer, doctor, humanist born in Nuremberg. He made many trips, first to Italy and then to the north of Flanders. In Germany, he had many friends among scholars and artists. He is the author of the work “Liber cronicarum“. The Chronicle contains many woodcuts made by the greatest graphic artists

Outstanding coloratura singer, teacher, born in Wadowice and died in Ciechocinek. Her real name is Jadwiga Schayer. She studied music in Stary Sącz, then the school of nuns in Kraków, then in Vienna and Milan. In 1906 she made her debut with great success in Vienna, in 1909 she changed

Prince, archbishop of Krakow, cardinal. He came from an old magnate family of the Lis coat of arms, from the Galician Sapieha line, representing the patriotic and social line. Father Adam helped the January insurgents, a political and economic activist imprisoned by the Austrians. Mother Jadwiga, a known patriot and