Famous People with Name Jozef

Józef Borzyszkowski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Józef Borzyszkowski: is a historian and Kashubian activist. He was the chairman of the Kashubian-Pomeranian Association from 1986 to 1992.

Józef Koscielski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Józef Koscielski: was a Polish poet, politician and parliamentarian, co-founder of the Straz (Guard) society.

Józef Krzyminski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Józef Krzyminski: was a Polish physician, social and political activist, and a member of parliament. In March 1940, he was arrested by the Nazi occupation authorities and died in a concentration camp close to Inowroclaw on 20 October 1940.

Józef Maksymilian Ossolinski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Józef Maksymilian Ossolinski: was a Polish noble (szlachcic), politician, writer, researcher of literature, and founder of the Ossolinski Institute.Józef was member of many learned institutions, such as the Society of Friends of Science, Warsaw Scientific Society, the Wilno Academy, the Kraków Academy, the Royal Societies in Prague and Göttingen, the Imperial-Royal Society in Vienna, and a doctor honoris causa of the Jagiellonian University. One of the first Polish politicians in Galicia. He became prefect of the court library in 1793 in Vienna. In 1817 he donated all of his archives, valuable collections of books, manuscripts and museum pieces to "the Polish nation" and founded the "Ossolineum" Institute in Lwów.

Józef Hieronim Retinger            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Józef Hieronim Retinger: was a Polish political adviser and a founder of the European Movement that would lead to the founding of the European Union.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. He would later write about Conrad in his book, Conrad and His Contemporaries (1943).In 1917 Retinger traveled to Mexico, where he became an unofficial political adviser to union organizer Luis Morones and President Plutarco Elías Calles. Later, during World War II, he advised the Prime Minister of the Polish Government in Exile, General Wladyslaw Sikorski. In 1944, aged 56, Retinger parachuted into occupied Poland with 2nd Lt. Tadeusz Chciuk-Celt, in Operation Salamander, to talk with leading political figures and deliver money to the Polish underground.