Famous People with Name Kazimierz

Kazimierz Puzak            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Kazimierz Puzak: was a Polish politician of the interwar period. Active in the Polish Socialist Party, he was one of the leaders of the Polish Secret State and Polish resistance, sentenced by the Soviets in the infamous Trial of the Sixteen in 1945.A member of the Combat Organization of the Polish Socialist Party, in 1909 together with Henryk Minkiewicz he participated in the assassination of a provocateur and police agent Edmund Taranowicz. In 1911 arrested by the Russian Empire government for activism in the Polish revolutionary and pro-independence movement, he was sentenced to 8 years of katorga and exile in Siberia afterwards. For a time he was imprisoned in Shlisselburg fortress. He was released during the Russian Revolution of 1917, in which he briefly participated.

Kazimierz Tyszka            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Kazimierz Tyszka: was Polish Minister of Railways in 1923-25 in Wladyslaw Grabski's government.

Kazimierz Wyka            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Kazimierz Wyka: was a Polish historian, literary critic and a professor of the Jagiellonian University.In 1980, President of Kraków have sponsored the Kazimierz Wyka Award in the field of literary criticism.

Kazimierz Lutoslawski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Kazimierz Lutoslawski: was a Polish physician, priest and Polish Scouting founder - activist.

Kazimierz Pelczar            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Kazimierz Pelczar: was a Polish academic and physician. Professor of the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius and pioneer of oncology research and treatment, he was murdered in the Ponary massacre.During the following years he worked in Collegium Medicum in Kraków, as well as in Germany and France. In 1929 he got his habilitation, and in 1930 he was invited to the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius, Wilno Voivodship in Poland, to head the Department of General and Experimental Pathology of Faculty of Medicine (from 1930 to 1939). He also was the head of Department of Bacteriology (1935-1937), the dean (school year 1937-1938) and vice-dean in the following year. Under his leadership the Vilnius Department of Medicine flourished, with many important publications, and with students who would went to become notable academics and physicians themselves (like professor J. Olszewski of Toronto, member of the Moscow Academy of Sciences M. Beklemishev, and J. Sztachelski, Poland's Minster of Health). In 1936 he organized the international 4th Congress Against Cancer in Vilnius.