Famous People with Name Ludwik

Ludwik Tadeusz Warynski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Ludwik Tadeusz Warynski: (born 24 September 1856 at Martynówka-- died 2 March 1889 in Shlisselburg) was an activist and theoretician of socialist movement in Poland.

Ludwik Gintel            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Ludwik Gintel: was a soccer player for Cracovia Kraków, who played as a defender (later forward). He was also capped 12 times for the Polish national team, including their first ever Olympic appearance at the 1924 Olympic Games. With Cracovia, he was twice the champion of Poland (1921 and 1930).

Ludwik Silberstein            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Ludwik Silberstein: was a Polish-American physicist that helped make special relativity and general relativity staples of university coursework. His textbook The Theory of Relativity was published by Cambridge University Press in 1914 with a second edition, expanded to include general relativity, in 1924.Silberstein was born May 17, 1872 in Warsaw to Samuel Silberstein and Emily Steinkalk. He was educated in Cracow, Heidelberg, and Berlin. To teach he went to Bologna, Italy from 1899 to 1904, switching then to the University of Rome until 1920. That year he entered private research for the Eastman Kodak Company of Rochester, New York. For nine years he maintained this consultancy with Kodak labs while he gave his relativity course on occasion at the University of Chicago, the University of Toronto, and Cornell University.He lived until January 17, 1948.

Ludwik Stasiak            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Ludwik Stasiak: was a Polish painter, illustrator, writer, journalist, essayist and publisher.he traveled across Europe and studied fine arts in Vienna (August Eisenmenger) and Munich (A.W. Wagner and Alexander von Liezen-Mayer). His artistic heritage includes historical, religious, and landscape paintings, allegories, portraits, still lifes and dioramas. Ludwik Stasiak was well recognized as a popular magazine illustrator for: “Bluszcz”, “Klosy”, “Biesida Literacka”, “Ziemia”, “Tygodnik Ilustrowany”, “Wedrowiec”, and as an author of popular historical novels and essays. Ludwik Stasiak had also founded and run his own publishing house "Stella". Stasiak along with Wlodzimierz Tetmajer, Wincenty Wodzinowski, Stanislaw Radziejo

Ludwik Lazarz Zamenhof            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Ludwik Lazarz Zamenhof: was an ophthalmologist, philologist, and the inventor of Esperanto, a constructed language designed for international communication.