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2 unusual facts about Józef Retinger


Józef Retinger

His father, Józef Stanisław Retinger, was the personal legal counsel and adviser to Count Władysław Zamoyski.

Financed by Count Zamoyski, Retinger attended the Sorbonne in 1906, and was the youngest person ever to earn a Ph.D. there, in 1908 at the age of twenty, before his move to England in 1911, where his closest friend was fellow Pole, Joseph Conrad.



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