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In the News (Fri 11 Dec 09)

  
  UNIVERSITY OF WROCLAW - 300 YEARS OF HISTORY
For the academic community of the University of Wroclaw, the upcoming anniversary is an unique opportunity to pay tribute to the diverse cultural and intellectual heritage of the countries and nations of Europe which shaped its character, traditions and customs over the past three hundred years.
Deeply aware of this heritage, the University of Wroclaw preserves its unity and carries out its mission through the work of its academics in scientific disciplines, through the education and upbringing of young generations, and through its significant contributions to the culture and science of Europe and of the world.
The academic community of the University of Wroclaw wishes its anniversary to become an opportunity to demonstrate its commitment to the humanist ideals of openness, unity, tolerance, peace and understanding among nations, embodied in the history of our University, and to promote the idea of Poland’s return to Europe.
www.wroclaw.com /university   (195 words)

  
  Vilnius University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vilnius University (Lithuanian Vilniaus Universitetas, Polish Uniwersytet Wileński, formerly Stefan Batory University) is the oldest and biggest university in Lithuania.
Finally all the property of the University was confiscated and sent to Russia (mostly to St.
On December 15, 1939 the government of Lithuania decided to liquidate the University, because the Polish language was used in it, and Poland persecuted schools in which Lithuanian language was used.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vilnius_University   (1593 words)

  
 Vilnius University
Vilnius University (Lithuanian Vilniaus Universitetas, Polish Uniwersytet Wileński, formerly Stefan Batory University) is the biggest university in Lithuania.
The diplomas of the underground universities were accepted by many of Polish universities after the War.
After 1945 most of the mathematicians, humanists and biologists joined the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń; while a number of medicians were the core of newly-founded Medical University of Gdańsk;.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/vilnius_university   (1205 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Nikolaus Copernicus University in Toruń; (Uniwersytet im Mikołaja Kopernika (UMK) w Toruniu) is one of the most respected universities in Poland.
Founded in 1945 on the basis Torun Scientific Society, Stefan Batory University in Wilno and Jan Kazimierz University in Lwów.
Main article: Life There are many universal units and common processes that are fundamental to the known forms of life.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Nicolaus-Copernicus-University-in-Torun   (861 words)

  
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In 1988 a group of high energy physicists from the Physics Faculty of the Warsaw University realized that their research at DESY (Hamburg) and CERN (Geneva) cannot be successfully continued without the computer network connectivity with Western Europe.
Physicists from Warsaw University played a major role in Polish Research and Academic Network, which starting from 1991, in a short time connected nearly all Polish universities and research institutes.
In this situation The Batory Foundation took a right decision that its role as a sponsor of introducing the Internet to Polish schools has been successfully completed and consequently stopped further funding of the "Internet for Schools" Programme.
www.ids.edu.pl /english_new.html   (890 words)

  
 KUL - History of the University
It is the oldest university in Lublin and one of the oldest in Poland.
The response of the university to the growing repression from the State was expansion in the area of research and the foundation of new departments and specialised inter-department research units.
Thanks to these activities by the rector and the University authorities, as well as the Friends of KUL, the Congress and Senate of the Republic of Poland passed an act on August 14, 1991, giving KUL a grant from the state treasury, effective as of January 1, 1992.
www.kul.lublin.pl /uk/history   (1016 words)

  
 Catholic University of Lublin
The University of Lublin Society was established in 1922 (which from 1928 was renamed the Friends of the Catholic University of Lublin Society), whose purpose was to spread the idea of Catholic higher schools of learning, also to finance and support the Lublin university.
The problem of the university’s building repair was largely resolved thanks to the funding of individual halls mainly by a large number of lay and monastic clergy, and by landed gentry.
Nevertheless the University continued to be subject to pressure, regardless of the official understanding between the Government and the Episcopate reached in 1950, on the basis of which KUL had full freedom of action.
www.kul.lublin.pl /uk/history/after.html   (3623 words)

  
 Medical University of Gdansk - English Division
Among the senior teaching staff of the new University were many distinguished Polish scientists once active at the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius, who came to Gdańsk after the annexation of Vilnius by the Soviet Union.
Among our University buildings, the one erected in 1975 and housing the Basic Sciences Departments (Collegium Biomedicum) is noteworthy for its three lecture halls and twelve organizational units, that are well-equipped with modern instruments for teaching and research.
Some of the University clinics are located in district hospitals in Gdańsk: the Regional Hospital (Copernicus Hospital), the Hospital of Infectious Diseases, and the Psychiatric and Neurological Health Care Centre in Gdańsk.
www.ed.amg.gda.pl /our_university/15   (1188 words)

  
 The Exhibition of Stefan Batory University in Wilno (1919-1939/45)
The Exhibition of Stefan Batory University in Wilno (1919-1939/45)
The sixtieth anniversary of Nicolaus Copernicus University is the reason for organizing series of lectures by the NCU Professors' Club under the auspices of Rector Magnificus Professor Jan Kopcewicz.
The first lectures from the 20th of October were devoted to the tradition of the Torun Almae Matris concerning the roots of the University in Torun.
www.bu.uni.torun.pl /en/hinc-eng.htm   (308 words)

  
 MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK
At the present the Medical University of Gdańsk has three main faculties Medical with Stomatological Subfaculty, Pharmaceutical, established in 1946 and the Intercollegial Faculty of Biotechnology at Gdańsk University and the Medical University of Gdańsk and three intercollegial departments: the Main Library, the Department of Foreign Language Teaching and Physical Education Department.
The clinics of the Medical University of Gdańsk perform, among others, operations on the open heart, invasive treatment of arrhythmia's, restoration of coronary vessels by dilation of coronary stenosis and introduction of stents into the coronary system, transplantation of kidneys and bone morrow and automatic peritoneal dialysis.
Several professors of Medical University of Gdańsk have been conferred upon the title of Honoris Causa Doctorate of the Medical University of Gdańsk: Ignacy Adamczewski, Ignacy Abramowicz, Stanisław Byczkowski, Marian Górski, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Zofia Majewska, Włodzimierz Mozołowski, Michał Reicher and Mariusz Żydowo.
www.pg.gda.pl /PismoPG/nr6_98/P23.HTM   (1240 words)

  
 Slovenská spoločnosť pre zahraničnú politiku
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Institute for Political Science, University of Justus Liebig, Giessen
Institute of International Relations, Kiev National Taras Shevchenko University, Kyjev
www.sfpa.sk /sk/partneri/spolupracujuce-institucie   (321 words)

  
 Faculty of Matematics and Computer Science, Nicolaus Copernicus University - Gallery of portraits by Prof. Jesmanowicz
Professor Leon Jeśmanowicz was born in 1914 in Druja in the Vilnius region.
In the years 1933-1937 he studied in faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius.
In 1946 he settled permanently in Toruń where he was associated with the Nicolaus Copernicus University until his death in 1989.
www.mat.uni.torun.pl /en/caricatures.html   (500 words)

  
 Stefan Batory Foundation
Today he is Chairman of the Open Society Institute and the founder of a network of philanthropic organizations active in more than 50 countries in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the United States.
These foundations are dedicated to building and maintaining the infrastructure and institutions of an open society.
Soros founded the Central European University, with its primary campus in Budapest.
www.batory.org.pl /english/about/founder.htm   (305 words)

  
 Henryk Niewodniczanski (1900-1968)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Professor Henryk Niewodniczanski, the first Director of the Nuclear Institute of Physics in Cracow and Director of the Institute of Physics of the Jagellonian University was born in Wilno.
He graduated at Stefan Batory University in 1924 and two years later received his doctor's degree from the same University.
As the Director of the Institute of Physics of Jagellonian University and of the Institute of Nuclear Physics, Professor Niewodniczanski was the initiator of most of the lines of research followed in these two institutes.
chall.ifj.edu.pl /Niewodn.html   (619 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Jadwiga of Poland   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Most of all, she donated her jewelry, dresses — and even her royal insignia — to restore the Academy of Kraków, since called Jagiellonian University in honor of her and her husband.
Jagiellonian University (Polish: Uniwersytet Jagielloński) is a university in Krakow, Poland.
On 22 June 1399 Jadwiga gave birth to a daughter, baptized Elizabeth Bonifacia.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Jadwiga-of-Poland   (5484 words)

  
 Milosz, Czeslaw   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In 1929 he entered the King Stefan Batory University in Wilno, Poland (present-day Vilnius, capital of Lithuania).
His earliest poems appeared in a student publication at the university, where Milosz was cofounder of the leftist literary group Zagary (Polish for "charred wood").
In 1934 Milosz received his law degree from the King Stefan Batory University, and traveled to Paris, France, on a scholarship to study literature.
www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/M/miloszczeslaw/1.html   (440 words)

  
 Zygmund   (Site not responding. Last check: )
He entered Warsaw University in 1919, he wanted to study astronomy, but since such studies were not offered at that time, he decided to study mathematics.
Zygmund made his habilitation in 1926 and in 1930 was offered a Chair of Mathematics of Stefan Batory University in Wilno, where he worked until the Second World War in 1939.
In 1945 he moved to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and two years later to the University of Chicago.
www.impan.gov.pl /Great/Zygmund   (612 words)

  
 Address at Meeting with Rectors of Academic Institutions, Pope John Paul II, Torun, Poland, Monday, 7 June 1999
We are meeting within a University which, at least in terms of its date of establishment, is fairly young.
The University of Torun, at the moment of its birth, was marked by the dramatic events which followed the Second World War.
It is appropriate on this occasion to recall that the founders of this University were mostly scholars in exile from the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius and from the Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv.
www.cin.org /jp2/jp990607.html   (2219 words)

  
 IATUL News No.3 1998   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The University was founded in 1945 by a group of Professors from the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius.
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia has a long history of being the foremost university supplying Malaysia the majority of its skilled professionals in the development of the country.
Sultanah Zanariah Library serves the University at its main campus in Johor and its branch in Kuala Lumpur.
www.iatul.org /whatsnew/previous/3-98.html   (3189 words)

  
 Institute of Central-East Euope
The East-Central European Institute was founded in Lublin at the turn of 1991-1992 at the initiative of a group of Lublin academics (KUL, UMCS), who had the idea of forming a centre co-ordinating interdisciplinary collaboration between historians, sociologists, lawyers, experts in cultural studies and philosophers from the east-central part of the European continent.
The driving force behind the idea of the Institute and its director is Professor Jerzy Kloczkowski, historian, professor at the Catholic University of Lublin, founding-member of the Polish Committee for the European Movement, chairman of the Polish UNESCO Committee and member of the UNESCO Executive Committee.
The Institute's work is financed mainly by the Academic Research Committee, The Stefan Batory Foundation and the Lublin City Council.
www.znak.com.pl /eurodialog/iesw/iesw.html.en   (997 words)

  
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My father was then also a teacher of mathematics and logic and a docent at Lwów university (a year later he became a professor of philosophy at the University and stopped working at a secondary school), so I know how hard a teacher's work was at that time.
Immediately after occupying Lwów a special detachment of the German police troops killed a large group of Polish university professors and their families: 42 persons altogether, and among them 25 professors and docents (among mathematicians, the professors Ruziewicz, Bartel, Stozek and Lomnicki were killed).
As a student of the Clandestine University, I, as well as my father, was also a frequent visitor at the Rubinowicz home at that time; but I never met Schauder there, and I do not remember if Rubinowicz told me about his visit.
www.tmna.ncu.pl /htmls/mem1.html   (5070 words)

  
 Czeslaw Milosz biography
Czeslow Milosz, recipient of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in Seteksniai, Lithuania to Aleksandre and Weronika Milosz.
He was educated in Roman Catholic schools and later received his law degree from King Stefan Batory University.
While at the University, he cofounded the leftist literary group ZAGARY.
ks.essortment.com /czeslawmiloszb_rtnk.htm   (280 words)

  
 Stefan Batory Foundation
The Batory Foundation Debates are an attempt at establishing an independent meeting and discussion forum for politicians, professionals and journalists.
The Foundation has long organized conferences and seminars on transition in Poland, international affairs, Poland’s foreign policy and the situation in Central and Eastern Europe.
Discussion with the participation of Jarosław Kaczyński, leader of Law and Justice Party, Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Minister of Forteigh Affairs, Bronisław Komorowski, MP of Civic Forum Party, moderated by Aleksander Smolar, Presidentof the Batory Foundation.
www.batory.org.pl /english/debates   (343 words)

  
 Mathematicians   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In 1930 he enrolled Stefan Batory University in Wilno and the next year he started to attend the Zygmund's seminar on trigonometric series.
Marcinkiewicz finished his studies in 1933 and after spending one year in military service was appointed a junior assistant at Stefan Batory University.
During this service he wrote his PhD dissertation and got his PhD in 1935.
www.impan.gov.pl /Great/Marcinkiewicz   (224 words)

  
 Prof. Jesmanowicz   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Professor Leon Jesmanowicz was born in 1914 in Druja in the Vilnius region.
In 1945 he left Vilnius as a repatriate and took up a post in the Department of Mathematics at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin.
In 1946 he settled permanently in Torun where he was associated with the Nicolaus Copernicus University until his death in 1989.
www.eilatgordinlevitan.com /druya/dru_pages/druya_stories_jesmanowicz.html   (255 words)

  
 FELIKS KONECZNY
During his activity at the Jagiellonian University Feliks Koneczny set forth his most important historical writings, and his publications provided an outline of the study of civilizations.
In October 1919, the Polish scholar became Assistant Professor at the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius.
At the age of 67, Professor Koneczny was removed from his office at the university in Vilnius, which, contrary to the scholar's intent, was the cause of his retirement.
tlumaczbw.republika.pl /koneczny/page7.htm   (391 words)

  
 A Katyn and World War Two Diary
On September 1, 1939, Leon Gladun was mobilized as an officer cadet to defend his beloved Poland against the Nazi blitzkrieg.
A horticultural student at Stefan Batory University, my father would only have time to grab a few photos from his home in Krzemieniec, before racing to the front, leaving behind his mother and grandmother.
Leon would never graduate nor would he see his home again, and it would be twenty years before he'd be reunited with his mother.
www.polandsholocaust.org /Katyn1.html   (603 words)

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