FAMOUS POLES FRYDERYK CHOPIN Fryderyk Chopin was born

FAMOUS POLES FRYDERYK CHOPIN Fryderyk Chopin was born in Żelazowa Wola (west of Warsaw) in 1810 and grew up in Warsaw. He was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era who wrote primarily for the solo piano but he gained worldwide fame as a leading musician of his era, a genius who was without equal in his generation.

Chopin's birthplace in Żelazowa Wola Considered Poland's greatest composer, Chopin composed his earlier works in Warsaw before leaving Poland at the age of 20, before the outbreak of the November 1830 Uprising. At the age of 21 he settled in Paris. Through most of his life, Chopin suffered from poor health. He died in Paris in 1849, at the age of 39, probably of tuberculosis. All of Chopin's compositions include the piano. Most are for solo piano, though he also wrote two piano concertos, a few chamber pieces, and some songs to Polish lyrics.

A short and unhappy visit to Majorca with the French woman writer George Sand in 1838– 39 was one of his most productive periods of composition. Frederic Chopin and George Sand Museum in Valldemossa, Majorca, Spain.

Frederic Chopin died in 1849 in Paris. Chopin's heart in an urn returned back to Poland in 1850.

MIKOŁAJ KOPERNIK Mikałaj Kopernik (Nicolaus Copernicus) was born in 1473 in the city of Thorn (modern Toruń), in the province of Royal Prussia, in the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland.

When Mikołaj was ten years old he was taken by his uncle - the bishop of Warmia. Mikołaj was well educated as he graduated from the University in Cracow. He studied law and medicine in Italy. Then came back to Poland. He was the Polish King subject. He spoke German, Latin, perhaps Polish and Italian. Toruń, the birthplace of Mikołaj Kopernik.

Circa 1508, Copernicus developed his own celestial model of a heliocentric planetary system. Around 1514, he shared his findings in the Commentariolus. His second book on the topic, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, was banned by the Roman Catholic Church decades after his death in 1540 Frombork.

Mikołaj Kopernik was a polygloth and polymath, he obtained a doctorate in canon law and was also a mathematician, physician, classics scholar, translator, governor, diplomat, and economist. Mikołaj Kopernik died in 1543 at the age of 70 and was reportedly buried in Frombork Cathedral.

MARIA SKŁODOWSKA – CURIE Scientist Marie Curie(1867 – 1934)born in Warsaw, Poland was the first woman and the first Pole to win a Nobel Prize and the only person to win the award in two different fields — physics and chemistry.

Together with her husband Pierre Curie, she discovered polonium and radium and, after Pierre's death, developed Xrays. She was the first female lecturer, professor and head of laboratory at the Sorbonne University in Paris (1906). Her oldest daughter Irene Joliot – Curie also won a Nobel Prize for chemistry

She received 15 gold medals, 19 degrees, and other honors. Professor of Radiology, University of Warsaw, Poland; Professor of Science, University of Paris, France. In 1934 Maria Skłodowska-Curie died of leukaemia, caused by her exposure to the radium that made her famous. She is the first woman laid to rest under the famous dome of the Pantheon in Paris for her own merits.

GREAT POLES OF JEWISH ORIGIN LUDWIK LEJZER ZAMENHOF (1859– 1917), was a Polish – Jewish medical doctor, inventor, and writer. He is most widely known for creating Esperanto.

By 1878, his project Lingwe uniwersala (universal language), later called Esperanto was almost finished. In 1959 Unesco honoured Zamenhof on the occasion of his centenary. In 2015 Unesco decided to support the celebration of the 100 th anniversary of his death. L. Zamenhof was 12 times nominated for the Nobel Peace Price. The flag of Esperanto

ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER Isaac Singer, novelist and shortstory writer, was born in 1904, in Radzymin, Poland. Born to a family of religious Jews, Isaac Bashevis Singer was raised in an overcrowded, poor Jewish quarter of Warsaw.

His father was a Hasidic rabbi and his mother, Bathsheba, was the daughter of the rabbi of Biłgoraj, a town near Lublin Krochmalna Street in Warsaw near the place where the Singers lived (photo taken in 1940 or 1941)

Four years before the German invasion In 1935 Singer emigrated from Poland to the United States. He was fearful of the growing Nazi threat in neighboring Germany. He took a job in New York. He was a leading figure in the Yiddish literary movement, writing and publishing only in Yiddish. In 1978, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. He continued writing until shortly before his death in 1991, in Florida.

JULIAN TUWIM Julian Tuwim, (born 1894 , Łódz, Poland, died in 1953, in Zakopane, Poland), a Jewish writer and lyric poet of emotional power and linguistic sensitivity, one of the leaders of the 20 th-century group of Polish poets called Skamander. Tuwim is best remembered for his contribution to children's literature.

He studied law and philosophy at Warsaw University. Because of his Jewish background, Tuwim fled the country at the outbreak of the war. He eventually spent seven years abroad, first in Brazil—where he wrote his long, quasi-epic poem Kwiaty polskie notable for its nostalgia and length. (Published in 1949' “Polish Flowers”)—and then in the United States. He returned to Poland in 1946. Julian Tuwim’s bench in Łódź, a favourite meeting spot, children like to sit on his lap and it’s considered good luck for lovers to rub his nose.

Covers of his children’s books

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