Famous People with Name Teodor

Teodor Lubieniecki            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Teodor Lubieniecki: was a Polish Baroque painter and engraver.Teodor and his brother Krzysztof Lubieniecki hailed from Arian family. They learned to paint from Juriaan Stur in Hamburg. In 1667 they travelled to Amsterdam, where Krzysztof apprenticed with Adrian Backer, and Teodor with Gerard de Lairesse. Teodor enjoyed success in Amsterdam and was visited and admired by Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany who was visiting Amsterdam while on his Grand Tour up the Rhine. In 1682, Teodor moved to Hannover where he found work for the art-loving Frederick William I, Elector of Brandenburg. He was appointed a conservator of his son's Akademie der Künste in 1702 before eventually moving to Poland in 1706, where he later died.[1]

Teodor Teofil Matecki            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Teodor Teofil Matecki: was a Polish physician, social activist and member of Poznan Society of Friends of Learning.He was awarded for his bravery afterwards but the Prussian authorities punished him for the participation in the uprising by sentencing him to three months in prison. He achieved a secondary school certificate in 1833 in Wroclaw and started his medicine studies at the university therein. He received the degree of doctor of medicine in 1837 and then he fulfilled his residency in Berlin. He went to live in Poznan the following year.

Teodor Kocerka            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Teodor Kocerka: was a Polish rower who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics, in the 1956 Summer Olympics, and in the 1960 Summer Olympics.Four years later he finished fourth in the single sculls competition.

Teodor Parnicki            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Teodor Parnicki: was a Polish writer, notable for his historical novels. He is especially renowned for works related to the early medieval Middle East, the late Roman and the Byzantine empires.Teodor Parnicki was born March 5, 1908, to a Polish father and a Polish-Jewish mother.[1] in Berlin, where his father, Bronislaw Parnicki, had been studying at the local university of technology. Upon receiving a doctorate, the family moved to Moscow, where Parnicki's father worked for various Russian companies. After the outbreak of World War I, the Parnicki family - officially citizens of Germany - had to abandon Moscow and move to Ufa, where Parnicki's mother died soon afterwards. Bronislaw Parnicki then married a Russian woman who sent young Teodor to a cadet corps school in Omsk and then Vladivostok. Tired of the military drill, at the age of 12 Parnicki escaped from the cadet school and reached Harbin in Manchuria, where he was taken care of by the local Polonia community

Téodor De Wyzewa            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Téodor De Wyzewa: of Polish origin, was a leading exponent of the Symbolist movement in France.With Édouard Dujardin he created La Revue wagnérienne in 1885. He frequently contributed articles on European literature to the Revue des deux mondes.He was married to Marguerite Terlinden, the daughter of Belgian painter Félix Terlinden and the sister-in-law of the art critic and historian Pierre Francastel.