Hélène
d'Abancourt de Franqueville, Cracow
->
Her great great grandfather Augustin, nephew of the Minister of War
for Louis XIV, emigrated to Poland at the time of the revolution.
Ahmed
Mouhtar bey, Stamboul
->
His mother is the great-granddaughter of Mehmed Ali Pacha, founder of
the Egyptian Dynasty. Mehmed Ali Pashi promoted Imail Pacha with the
title of »Gibraltar« as he traversed for the first time the
straits of Gibraltar with an Egyptian sailing boat to join his post
in Bordeaux as ambassador with Napoleon I.
Karel
Václav Adámek, Hlinsko
->
His great-grandfather Václav Frantisek Hrib (1760-1827),
Bohemian author and stage manager of Shakespeare's dramas in
Hlinsko.
Milan
Glavinic, Belgrade ->
His great-grand father Kosta, was pioneer for the communal politic,
for the cooperative life, for the amelioration of village life.
Adam
Kasimierz Majewski, Lublin
->
His great-grandfather Adam, member of the National Government in
1863, was exiled to Siberia.
Jean
Rhallys, Psychiko near Athens
->
His great-grandfather Alexandre Rhallys was a Turkish diplomat. In
1821 at the outbreak, (of the war, Ed.) he was called back to
Constantinople and was executed the same day as Patriarch Gregory.
His grandfather, the son of the latter, who was then 14 years old,
could escape to Odessa (Russia) where he was taken care of by a
friend of his father Rodakanaki, who sent him to Paris to study
law.
Spyros
Travlos, Athens
->
His great-granduncle, the Count Andre Metaxas, was President of
Council of the revolutionary government in 1862, dismissing King
Othon and placing George I. on the throne.
Samuel
Mützner, Bucharest
->
His grandparents have emigrated from Russia.
Alexandre,
Emmanuel Batek, Prague
->
His grandmother came from the Netherlands to Prague where her son
Lambert founded a new trade "Kniestreicher and Oelmacherzunft" in
Bohemia of which he was the first master.
Ägidius
Jahn, Vienna
->
Grandmother Kleissl, is originally from an old Tyrolian family which
came to Pilsen in 1774.
Karel
Absolon, Bruno
->
His Grandfather Heinrich Wankel was »The father of Moravian
Pre-history«. (a famous naturalist)
Karel
Václav Adámek, Hlinsko
His Grandfather Jan (1811-86) was an industrialist.
Pericles
Argyropoulo, Athens
->
His Grandfather Pericles was a member of the Anglophile Party under
King Othou.
Anna
Slonczynska (De Vertno), Warsaw
->
Her grandfather Antoine Sloncsynski fought for Polish liberty
and participated in the
insurrection against Russia in 1830. The insurrection soon broken
down and he had to emigrate and take refuge in Paris. His property
was confiscated.
Sophie
de (pen name Sophie Kossak Szczucka) Szatkowska, Gorki
Wielkie
->
Her Grandfather was the famous painter of water colours Jules de
Kossak, pupil of Horace Vernet.
Hélène
d'Abancourt de Franqueville, Cracow
->
Her grandfather Francois Xavier organized and took an active part in
the National life of Poland and in the restitution of the Polish
language in the public life of the Polish nation under the Austrian
obedience towards the middle of the XIX. Century.
Démètre,
Prince Ghica, Bucharest
->
His Grandfather S.A. Prince Gregoire Ghica X., was the last reigning
Prince of Moldavia, 1848-1856.
Milan
Glavinic, Belgrade
->
His grandfather maternal, was a manufacturer of tobacco which was
imported from Turkey.
Ernst
Fürth, Vienna
->
His grandfather Bernhard Fürth founded in 1838 under the name of
»Bernard Fürth« a match factory in Schüttenhofen,
which he brought after a short time to importance and good
reputation. After his death, Daniel Fürth, his father, took over
the factory.
Wladyslaw
Grabowski, Lutago, Gdynia
->
His Father and grandfather were of Polish Ukrainian origin and took
part in the Polish insurrection of 1831 and 1863. Having all their
wealth confiscated by the Russians, they took refuge in the Austrian
part of Poland (Galicia).
Stefan
Hristic (Christitch), Belgrade
His Grandfather Nicolas was a Minister President known by his firmety
and energy. He left memoirs which according to his last will, shall
be published only 50 years after his death.
Tamara
Jankowa, Sofia
->
Her mother's father was one of the conspirators who dethroned in 1886
the Czar Alexander of Battenberg. He had to emigrate to Russia where
he stayed for 12 years and
through an amnesty he was allowed to come back to Bulgaria. He
published a book with folksongs, many of them he heard from his
mother - a well known folk singer,
Victor
Kafka, Hamburg
->
His grandfather was a Medical Doctor also known in England and
America.
Beata
Obertynska-Wolska, Lwów
->
Her grandfather maternal was a painter and his wife a sculptress, who
does drawings and is an author of novels and a translator of German
and French Works.
Demetre
Kambouroglous, Athens
->
His grandfather maternal of the noble Athenian family, Sotiranos
Verondas, was one of the Athenians who was taken as hostage by the
Turks in 1821 at the insurrection.
Bronislawa
Keuprulian-Wojcik, Warsaw
->
His Grandfather Jean Krystyniacki, translated into Polish the works
of St. Joan Chrysostome.
Adam
Kasimierz Majewski, Lublin
->
His Grandfather Józef fought in the revolution in 1831 where
he was wounded.
Ahmed
Mouhtar bey, Stamboul
->
His grandfather is the grandson through his mother of the high savant
Kalenhevi Ismail efendi one of the founders of the School of Profits
under the government of Sultan Selim the III, friend and ally of
Napoleon the Great.
Zsolt
de Harsányi, Budapest
->
His grandfather Karl de Harsan, Member of Parliament and President of
the Hungarian Society of Arts, detected the talent of the great
Hungarian painter Michael Munkácsy and sent him abroad to
learn.
Georges
Pesmazoglu, Athens
->
His grandfather paternal, the Admiral Miaoulis, was first a corsair,
and after having forced the blockade of Spain, was made prisoner by
Admiral Nelson. The Admiral asked him what he should do with him, to
which question Miaoulis replied: "If I would be in your place, I
would have hanged you on the mast of my vessel, and you have to do
the same", Nelson was so amazed over his courage and frankness that
he gave him his liberty and rendered military honors to his
vessel.
Milos
Ruppeldt, Bratislava
->
His Grandfather Peter Augustiny was imprisoned for more than 6 months
by the Hungarians during the Revolution of 1848-1849 in Hungary, on
account of his being a Slovakian patriot.
Hermann
Suida, Vienna
->
His Grandfather Böhm von Böhmersheim, was a founder of
modern heating and ventilation technic.
Gustav
Vejsicky, Prague
->
His grandfather Gustav Pflanzer with his brother Vilém and
with Voita Náprstek took part in the revolutionary movement of
Czechs against the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1848. Because of the
suppression of the revolution they fled to America. After a few years
of staying in the New World they were allowed to return.