Jerzy Giedroyc

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Birth Date:
27.07.1906
Death date:
14.09.2000
Length of life:
94
Days since birth:
43002
Years since birth:
117
Days since death:
8618
Years since death:
23
Extra names:
Jerzy Giedroyc, Ежи Гедройц
Categories:
Aristocrat, Politician, Publicist, Publisher, WWII participant
Nationality:
 pole
Cemetery:
Le Mesnil-le-Roi, cemetery

Jerzy Władysław Giedroyc (27 July 1906 – 14 September 2000) was a Polish writer and political activist.

Giedroyc was born into a Polish-Lithuanian aristocratic family; with the title of the kniaź, prince, his studies in Moscow were interrupted by the October Revolution, when he returned home, and during the Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921 his family left Minsk for Warsaw, where he graduated from the Jan Zamoyski gymnasium in 1924 and studied law and Ukrainian history and literature at the University of Warsaw. As a journalist and civil servant in interwar Poland, he maintained contacts with leading Ukrainians and urged the Roman Catholic Church to improve relations with the Greek Catholic Church to which most Ukrainians belonged, insisting that Poland's success as a national state depended on satisfying the aspirations of minorities so that minority nationalists would not have convincing arguments against Polish statehood; he thus took the side of Józef Piłsudski as against the National Democrats. In 1930 he took over as editor of the weekly "Dzień Akademicki" (Academic Day) which he soon transformed into the biweekly "Bunt Młodych", renaming it Polityka in 1937.

During World War II he served under General Władysław Anders in the Polish Army and kept up friendly contacts with representatives of other nationalities. After the war he moved to Paris, where he published and edited a leading Polish-émigré literary-political journal, Kultura (1947–2000), which promoted a peaceful settlement of Poland's eastern borders, accepting the results of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and the Yalta Conference, even though many Poles regarded these as betrayals of Poland; this helped lay the groundwork for Poland's successful eastern policy after the fall of communism. His closest collaborator was Juliusz Mieroszewski, who provided the theoretical justification for Polish recognition of the borders with Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania (whose future independence he predicted long before it came about).

In 2006 the Polish Sejm declared the year 2006 to be the "Year of Jerzy Giedroyc."

He died in Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France.

 

Source: wikipedia.org

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        1Henryk GiedroycHenryk GiedroycBrother12.01.192221.03.2010

        08.01.1962 | Instytut Literacki w Paryżu rozpoczął wydawanie Zeszytów Historycznych

        „Zeszyty Historyczne” – kwartalnik (do 1973 półrocznik) emigracyjny wydawany w latach 1962–2010 przez Instytut Literacki w Paryżu, (od 2003 redagowany przez warszawskie Towarzystwo Opieki nad Archiwum Instytutu Literackiego w Paryżu). Publikował dokumenty, relacje, pamiętniki, wspomnienia i opracowania poświęcone najnowszej historii Polski. Z uwagi na to, że było wydawane na emigracji, a co za tym idzie - pozbawione ingerencji cenzury, pismo stanowiło wolne forum dyskusji i prezentacji naukowej. Skupiało wielu wybitnych badaczy i publicystów emigracyjnych (m.in. Piotr Wandycz, Józef Garliński, Zbigniew S. Siemaszko, Tadeusz Wyrwa) i krajowych (m.in. Grzegorz Mazur, Andrzej Friszke, Andrzej Paczkowski, Aleksandra Ziółkowska-Boehm).

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