Famous People with Name Stanislaw

Stanislaw Czeslaw Trybula            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Stanislaw Czeslaw Trybula: was a Polish mathematician and statistician.He was a pupil of state high school in Rypin, Poland, and he graduated from The First High School in Torun in 1950. He studied mathematics in Torun University and Wroclaw University. He defended his master thesi

Stanislaw Drahun            Origin/Culture/Country: Ukrainian

Stanislaw Drahun: a Belarusian professional footballer. As of 2009, he plays for FC Dinamo Minsk.

Stanislaw Konarski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Stanislaw Konarski: was a Polish pedagogue, educational reformer, political writer, poet, dramatist, Piarist monk and precursor of the Polish Enlightenment.Konarski studied 1725-27 at the Collegium Nazarenum in Rome, where he became a teacher of rhetoric. After that he travelled through France, Germany and Austria to broaden his education.In 1730 he returned to Poland and began work on a new edition of Polish law, the Volumina legum.From 1736 he taught at the Collegium Resoviense in Rzeszów. In 1740 he founded the Collegium Nobilium, an elite Warsaw school for sons of the gentry (szlachta). He founded the first public-reference library on the European mainland in 1747 in Warsaw. Thereafter he reformed Piarist education in Poland, in accordance with his educational program, the Ordinationes Visitationis Apostolicae... (1755). His reforms became a landmark in the 18th-century struggle to modernize the Polish education system.

Stanislaw Jankowski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Stanislaw Jankowski: was a Polish officer and architect.Student and assistant lecturer in architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology, Jankowski was mobilized as an officer during German invasion of Poland in 1939. He escaped after having been captured by the Soviet Union forces and joined the Polish Armed Forces in the West. He became a commando (Cichociemny) and in 1942 was parachuted into occupied Poland, where he became an expert document forger (codename "Agaton") for the Polish resistance. In 1944 he took part in the Warsaw Uprising (member of the Batalion Piesc in Zgrupowanie Radoslaw), taken prisoner by the Germans after its end, he became an aide-de-camp of the commander of the also interned Armia Krajowa leader, general Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski.

Stanislaw Staszewski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Stanislaw Staszewski: was a Polish architect and poet. He is notable as a father to Kazimierz Staszewski and author of many songs and ballads, sung both by his son and by Jacek Kaczmarski.Stanislaw Staszewski was born December 18, 1925 in Warsaw to an impoverished szlachta family of a gymnasium headmaster. During World War II young Stanislaw was a member of the Armia Krajowa. In its ranks he took part in the failed episode of the Warsaw Uprising in the borough of Praga. Taken prisoner by the Germans he faced the risk of being executed and instead managed to convince the German soldiers of his German ancestry and willingness to join the Wehrmacht. Along with several of his colleagues he was allowed to join the German army - and defected the following day. However, he was again caught by the Germans and sent to Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. There, in March 1945, he narrowly escaped death when he became a Muselmann and was placed on a pile of corpses bound for cremation. However, he was discovered by the inmates running the camp and managed to survive until liberation.

Jan Stanislawski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Jan Stanislawski: was a Polish modernist painter, art professor, originator and member of various art groups and societies.He began to learn painting in the so called Drawing Class (which later gave rise to the School of Fine Arts) in Warsaw under Wojciech Gerson. In 1883, he enrolled in the School of Fine Arts in Kraków. In 1885, he continued his studies in Paris under Charles Emile Auguste Durand. While based in Paris, he travelled much, visiting Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, and also Ukraine.His early works were exhibited at the inauguration of the Salon du Champ-de-Mars in Paris in 1890 and at the Friends of the Arts Society in Kraków in 1892. In the 1990s, he travelled extensively and his sketchbooks filled up with drawings from Berlin, Dresden, Prague, Kraków, and various places in Ukraine. Together with Julian Falat, he painted the landscape parts of Napoleon’s Army Crossing the Berezina, a panorama by Wojciech Kossak.

Holger Stanislawski            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Holger Stanislawski: is a retired German football player and a football manager currently managing FC St. Pauli.