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Polish Patrons of the year 2023

The selection of patrons of the year is a wonderful initiative aimed at honoring outstanding personalities in the fields of culture, science, and education.

 

Wojciech Korfanty, an outstanding politician, social thinker, and journalist associated with Christian democracy, who played a significant role in the Naczelna Rada Ludowa. Led the victorious Wielkopolska Uprising.

Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, an outstanding researcher, traveler, discoverer, and philanthropist, who was the first Pole to circumnavigate the globe independently.

Aleksander Fredro, the most prominent Polish playwright, memoirist, poet, and soldier of the Napoleonic campaigns, participant in the expedition to Moscow in 1812, decorated with the Virtuti Militari and the Legion of Honour for his bravery.

Aleksandra Piłsudska, an independence activist, member of the Polish Military Organization and the Polish Socialist Party, decorated with the Virtuti Militari, Order of Polonia Restituta and Cross of Independence.

Maurycy Mochnacki, a conspirator, journalist, literary critic, pianist, member of almost all secret conspiracies against Russia in Warsaw, soldier of the November Uprising, and awarded with Virtuti Militari.

Jadwiga Zamoyska, a socially engaged patriot, servant of God, polyglot, author of a coherent pedagogical system, founder of the first professional school of household management in Poland.

Jerzy Nowosielski, a prominent painter, stage designer, philosopher, and religious thinker, considered one of the most outstanding figures in contemporary Polish culture.

Mikołaj Kopernik, a Polish astronomer, physician, and canon who studied and worked in Krakow, Italy, and Warmia, is widely regarded as one of the most important scientists in history for his development of the heliocentric model of the solar system.

Jan Matejko, one of the most renowned painters in the history of Poland and a significant contributor to historical painting. He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Krakow, as well as in Munich and Vienna, receiving numerous prestigious awards and becoming an honorary member of many artistic academies.

Wiesława Szymborska, a Polish poet, Polish philologist, and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996, who published 12 volumes of poetry and four volumes of essays and was known for inspiring scholars and ordinary readers with her works.

Włodzimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer, studied at the School of Fine Arts in Krakow and in Vienna, Munich, and Paris, and was involved in creating the “Panorama of Racławice” with Jan Styka and Wojciech Kossak, and he was also an author of stained glass, polychromy, illustrations, scenography, as well as many stories, poems, and the drama “Piast”.

Year of Remembrance for the Heroines and Heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and it has been designated as the Year of Remembrance for the Heroines and Heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto to honor those who fought and died, as well as those who survived and continued to speak out against the genocidal plans.

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