As with most of the nobility at that time, he was home-schooled first by private teachers from Switzerland, UK and France, then he attended one of the best secondary schools in Poland at the time, Saint Mary Magdalene High School in Poznań.
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Born on one of the largest Sypniewski estates in Greater Poland into a Polish noble family, he was the first son of Stanislaus Sypniewski (crest Odrowąż) and Anna Powelska (crest Nałęcz).
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This enormous collection had been split and stolen few times: particularly during World War I by Germans in 1918, and thrice during World War II: again by Germans in 1940 and in 1944, and the remaining part of the collection had been taken by the Soviet Red Army in the summer of 1945.