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A reputed Polish doctor, Henryk Goldszmit was better known by his pseudonym, Janusz Korczak, which he used to write several children’s books. Apart from working as a pediatrician and a military doctor, he also owned a Jewish orphanage and stayed with the children while the Germans deported him and other staff to Treblinka.
Andrzej Duda is a Polish politician, lawyer, and the current President of Poland. Duda has been in the forefront of the ongoing Polish constitutional crisis where his government has been blamed for its inability to adhere to the Polish and European constitutional law. Despite the crisis, Andrzej Duda was awarded Poland's highest honor, Order of the White Eagle.
Agata Kornhauser-Duda is a Polish former teacher who taught German at the prestigious Jan III Sobieski High School in Kraków. On 6 August 2015, Kornhauser became Poland's first lady when her husband Andrzej Duda was elected as the president of the country. Agata Kornhauser-Duda played an important role during the presidential campaign by appearing in party broadcasts.
Polish-American Gestalt psychologist Solomon Asch, a pioneer in social psychology, is known for his seminal work in social psychology, including social influence, impression formation, conformity and prestige suggestion. He is noted for the Asch conformity experiments or the Asch paradigm, a series of studies in which he demonstrated the influence of group pressure on opinions.
Renowned Polish symbolist artist Jacek Malczewski was a significant part of the Young Poland movement. His subjects ranged from history and mythology to folklore, death, and nature. The Death of Ellenai remains one of his most outstanding works. He was also the father of artist Rafał Malczewski.
Apart from being a Catholic priest, Michał Heller is also a mathematical cosmologist and a professor. The Templeton Prize-winner was born in Poland, but he later fled with his family to the USSR, to escape the Nazis, and lived in Siberian labor camps. His current research deals with general relativity.
Stanisław Staszic was a Polish philosopher who played a leading role in the Polish Enlightenment. He was also a Catholic priest, geologist, writer, and translator. He supported many reforms in Poland and was the co-founder of the Warsaw Society of Friends of Learning. He later served as the minister of trade and industry in Congress Poland.
Ignacy Domeyko was a Polish geologist, educator, and mineralogist. He is credited with founding one of Chile's oldest public universities, the University of Santiago, Chile (Usach). After the Polish–Russian War 1830–31, he settled in Chile where he made significant contributions to the study of Chile's geology, geography, and mineralogy. Ignacy Domeyko’s observations helped shape Chile's labor movement.
A Polish priest, Stanisław Konarski later came to be known as an important educational reformer. He taught rhetoric, wrote on Polish law, and later established the first public-reference library in mainland Europe and the elite school Collegium Nobilium. He also penned a 4-part volume on the Polish parliamentary system.
One of the pioneers of Hellenic studies, German scholar Karl Otfried Müller began his academic career at the University of Göttingen. While he initially taught art history and archaeology, he later explored Greek art and myths and their relationship with culture and history. He died of a fever during an expedition in Greece.
Jacob Talmon was a Polish Professor of Modern History who worked at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Talmon, who studied carefully the genealogy of totalitarianism, is credited with coining the terms Messianic democracy and totalitarian democracy. For his immense contribution to social science, Jacob Talmon was honored with the prestigious Israel Prize in 1957.
Polish Renaissance scholar and author Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski was one of the finest 16th-century Polish writers in Latin. Best known for his works such as Commentary on Reforming the Republic in Five Books, he advocated for empowering burghers and called for a religious reformation, thus angering both the church and the gentry.
Harry Broudy was a Polish-born American educator and professor of the philosophy of education. During his illustrious career, Harry Broudy taught at prestigious institutions like the North Adams State Teachers College, Framingham State Teachers College, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, making significant contributions.
Richard August Reitzenstein was a German scholar of Gnosticism, hermetism and Ancient Greek religion. Along with Wilhelm Bousset, Reitzenstein is regarded as one of the most influential figures of the history of religions school. Richard August Reitzenstein was also a classical philologist and his 1904 work on Poimandres was a pioneer scholarly study of the treatise.
Vera Maslovskaya was a Belarusian poet, teacher, and nationalist. Working for an independent Belarus during the interwar period, Maslovskaya established some of the first schools that imparted education in the Belarusian language. Also a socialist, Vera Maslovskaya is often counted among the originators of the Belarusian women's movement.
Max Habicht was a Polish educator best remembered for teaching Arabic in Paris; he studied Arabic for 10 years under Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy. Max Habicht is also remembered for his recension of the popular work, One Thousand and One Nights.
