Who is Who in Central & East Europe 1933


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Marya Kasierska, Paris ->
Her great uncle, Pater Francois Kasterski, Provincial of the Piarists Religious Order for the Instruction in Poland, was a well-known mathematician in the XIX. century.

Adolf Procházka, Prague-Karlin ->
His great-uncle maternal, Dr. Beda Dudik, was a member of the Benedictine Order in Rajhrad (Moravia) and was historian of the land of Moravia. He was a lecturer for the study of Central European sources at Vienna University, wrote 12 volumes and distinguished himself in restoring the Czech handwritten works taken away during the thirty-years war.

Karel Václav Adámek, Hlinsko ->
My uncle Francis Adámek is director of the music department at Wesleyan University in the U.S.A.

E.F. Burian, Prague ->
His uncle, Karl Burian, also sang at the Metropolitan Operahouse in New York.One uncle was colonel and then general of the Polish army during the revolution in 1830-1831.

Dénes Györgyi, Budapest ->
The uncles Géza Györgyi and Koloman Giergl, were famous architects.

Milan Hodza, Prague-Smichov ->
His uncle Michael Miloslav Hodza, was a man of science and a leader of revolution against the Magyar feudal regime in 1848.

Konstantinas Lapinas, Kaunas ->
His uncle Balthomeus Jurgelewitsch was the first inventor of the »Besperator«, a trade mark for which he received the honorable Leg. Diploma for the first Paris Exhibition and the great Medal of Leopold II. at the Belgium Exhibition.

Milos Ruppeldt, Bratislava ->
His uncle, Gustav Augustiny, worked for a union between the Slovaks, Rumanians and Serbians in Hungary.

Anna Slonczynska (De Vertno), Prague-Smichov ->
One of her uncles, Ignace Salky-Regulski, famous expert for paintings, was sent by order of King Stanislas Poniatowski to London to buy pictures for the Royal Gallery.

Juljan Tuwim, Warsaw ->
His uncle is Dr. Boleslaw Lapowski in New York.

Julius Wolfsohn, Vienna ->
His uncle is David Wolfsohn, leader of Zionists and successor to Theodor Herzl.

Streten Yakshich (Jaksic), Sarajevo ->
His uncle was Bosnian member of Turkish Parliament in Constantinople 1876.