* 1757 – Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, Polish scholar and statesman.

* December 24 – John Cantius, Polish scholar and theologian ( b. 1390 )

** Paulus Vladimiri, Polish scholar ( d. 1435 )

** Paweł Włodkowic, Polish scholar ( b. 1370 )

* Leszek Engelking (* 1955 ), Polish poet, writer, translator and scholar

* Stanisław Staszic ( 1755 – 1826 )-was a Polish priest, philosopher, statesman, geologist, scholar, poet and writer, a leader of the Polish Enlightenment.

In 1884 Polish scholar Maryan Sokolowski discovered an inscription near Köylütolu, in western Turkey.

The result of his work for the weekly was the book Buszpopolsku (" The Bush in Polish Edition "; 1962 ), a collection of his articles from the " Polish wilderness " that he went into to relate " the perspectives of forgotten, invisible, marginal people and so to record a living history of those seldom deemed worthy to enter the annals of official history " ( in the words of Diana Kuprel, the literary scholar and translator of Kapuściński's works ).

1370 – 1435 ) was a Polish scholar and rector who at the Council of Constance in 1414, presented a thesis, Tractatus de potestate papae et imperatoris respectu infidelium ( Treatise on the Power of the Pope and the Emperor Respecting Infidels ).

He is the most cited Polish scholar.

Polish scholar Aleksander Brückner in turn, explained the name based on its old spelling Plszczyna, from the ancient Polish word pło or pleso meaning a lake or a place by the lake – thus suggesting that the name Plszczyna as well as its German equivalent Pleß had similar background.

September 20, 1503 – autumn, 1572 ) was a Polish Renaissance scholar, humanist and theologian, called " the father of Polish democracy.

* Stanisław Lorentz ( 1899 – 1991 ), Polish scholar of music and history of art.

Piotr Ignacy Bieńkowski ( 1865 – 1925 ) was a Polish classical scholar and archaeologist, professor of Jagiellonian University.

* Maksymilian Berezowski ( 1923 – 2001 ), Polish author, journalist, and erudite scholar

* 1972: Polish scholar, graduate of Polish Philology at the Jagiellonian University

Kelly, who was teaching at the Jagiellonian University on a scholar exchange 1925 – 1926, admitted that he did not speak Polish very well at the time that the story was composed, and relied on French-speaking friends to translate.

Rubinek was born in Föhrenwald, Wolfratshausen, Germany, the son of Polish Jews Frania and Israel Rubinek, who was a factory worker, theater company manager, Yiddish Theatre actor, and Talmudic scholar.

As a teacher, Granet, “ a bristling and cantankerous disputant, a rich mind powerfully stimulating those of others ” ( Gille ) apparently instructed his students to “ read slowly and always slowly .” According to one student, Polish sinologist Witold Jablonski, Granet did “ not care for popularity ”: “ he is a scholar, he is a thinker, sometimes, perhaps, a wizard .” ( Jablonski ) The sinologist shared his commitment to learning the language of the texts he studied, and analyzing all materials, whether primary or secondary, critically.

* 1898 – Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet ( d. 1966 )

* 1756 – Jan Śniadecki, Polish mathematician ( d. 1830 )

The homage was described by the Polish chronicler Jan Kochanowski in his work Proporzec (" Standard ").

During the 1573 Polish election, Albert Frederick attempted to gain acceptance to the Polish senate but was opposed by the powerful Jan Zamoyski ( later Grand Hetman of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland ) who feared the influence of Protestants in the Polish legislative body.

Similarly, Polish railroad worker Jan Grzebski woke up from a 19-year coma in 2007.

* Cricket, a translation into English of the Polish poem Chrząszcz by Jan Brzechwa

Subjection of Galicia-Volhynia | Ruthenia by the Crown of the Polish Kingdom ( 1366 ), by Jan Matejko

Polish animated films-e. g., those by Jan Lenica and Zbigniew Rybczyński ( Oscar, 1983 )-have a long tradition and derive inspiration from Poland's graphic arts.

* 1826 – Jan Gotlib Bloch, Polish theorist and activist ( d. 1902 )

* Laments ( Treny ) by 16th-century Polish poet Jan Kochanowski

Lesser Poland, or Polonia Minor, appeared for the first time in historical documents in 1493, in the Statutes of Piotrków, during the reign of King Jan Olbracht, to distinguish this province from the cradle of the Polish state, Greater Poland ( Polonia Maior ).

It was originally meant to boost the morale of Polish soldiers serving under General Jan Henryk Dąbrowski in the Polish Legions, which were part of the French Revolutionary Army led by General Napoléon Bonaparte in its conquest of Italy.

The chorus and subsequent stanzas include heart-lifting examples of military heroes, set as role models for Polish soldiers: Jan Henryk Dąbrowski, Napoléon Bonaparte, Stefan Czarniecki and Tadeusz Kościuszko.

* 1585 – Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer ( d. 1652 )

* 1860 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist, composer, and statesman ( d. 1941 )

The final assault being fatally delayed, the Ottoman forces were swept away by allied Habsburg, German and Polish forces spearheaded by the Polish king Jan at the

Forced to sign a peace treaty with the Poles after the Battle of Chotin ( Chocim ) ( which was, in fact, a siege of Chotin defended by the Polish hetman Jan Karol Chodkiewicz ) in September – October, 1621, Osman II returned home to Istanbul in shame, blaming the cowardice of the Janissaries and the insufficiency of his statesmen for his humiliation.

The term phoneme as an abstraction was developed by the Polish linguist Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay and his student Mikołaj Kruszewski during 1875 – 1895.

In the early 20th century, the Polish formal logician Jan Łukasiewicz proposed three truth-values: the true, the false and the as-yet-undetermined.

The Polish logician Jan Łukasiewicz invented this notation around 1920 in order to simplify sentential logic.

Jan Niecisław Ignacy Baudouin de Courtenay ( 13 March 18453 November 1929 ) was a Polish linguist and Slavist, best known for his theory of the phoneme and phonetic alternations.

His daughter, Cezaria Baudouin de Courtenay Ehrenkreutz Jędrzejewiczowa was one of the founders of the Polish school of ethnology and anthropology as well as a professor at the universities of Wilno and Warsaw.