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unusual facts about Warsaw University



American Relief Administration

Polish leader Józef Piłsudski has written a note of personal thanks to Hoover; one of the streets in Warsaw has been named after him; he also received honorary degrees from the Jagiellonian University, Warsaw University and Lviv University, among other honors (such as several honorary citizenships of various Polish towns).

Andrzej Sołtan

He was appointed professor at Warsaw University in 1947, a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1952, and in 1955 he became the first director of the Institute of Nuclear Research in Świerk, Otwock County near Warsaw, now known as the National Centre for Nuclear Research.

Field Cathedral of the Polish Army

The monks founded the Collegium Nobilium, one of the most notable schools of the epoch and a predecessor to the Warsaw University.

Grzegorz Pojmański

Grzegorz Pojmański (born April 16, 1959, in Warsaw), Polish astronomer, worker of Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory, Poland.

Hatif Janabi

He moved to Warsaw, Poland in 1976 for higher studies, eventually obtaining a masters degree in Polish language and literature and a PhD in drama, both from Warsaw University.

Jewish Historical Institute

In 2011, Paweł Śpiewak, a Professor of Sociology at Warsaw University and former politician, was nominated as the Director of the Jewish Historical Institute by Bogdan Zdrojewski, Minister of Culture and National Heritage.

Ladislaus Pilars de Pilar

Władysław (also Ladislaus) Baron Pilars de Pilar (Opatówek, March 3, 1874 - Chorzów, November 22, 1952) was a Polish poet and a literature professor at the Warsaw University.

Maciej Drygas

Drygas is currently director of the radio drama section at the Reportage Laboratory at Warsaw University and also teaches regularly at the Łódź Film School.

Natural semantic metalanguage

The leading proponents of the theory are Anna Wierzbicka at Warsaw University and later at the Australian National University who originated the theory in the early 1970s (Wierzbicka 1972), and Cliff Goddard at Australia's Griffith University (Goddard & Wierzbicka 1994, 2002).

Yi Lijun

In 1954, after graduating from Wuhan University, she was sent abroad to study at the expense of the government, she entered Warsaw University, where she majored in Polish language and literature.


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D. D. Morduhai-Boltovskoi

In 1915, after Germany captured Warsaw in the World War I, parts of the Warsaw University were evacuated and Morduhai-Boltovskoi with colleagues started working in Rostov University.

Lionello Grifo

His work has been widely reviewed in UK and in the United States and translated by the italianists of the University of Stanford, California; Warsaw University, Poland and Seville University, Spain.

Warsaw University of Technology

In 1951 the Warsaw University of Technology incorporated the Wawelberg and Rotwand's School of Engineering.