In 1904 he gained fame with his translation of a 1900 novel by Wacław Sieroszewski, Dno nędzy ( The Depths of Misery ; Esperanto title: Fundo de l ' Mizero ).

The following day, the commander of the French Military Mission to Poland General Louis Faury informed the Polish Chief of Staff — General Wacław Stachiewicz — that the major offensive on the western front planned for 17-20 September had to be postponed.

The preliminary treaty of Wehlau had been signed on 19 September 1657 by Frederick William I's envoys von Schwerin and von Somnitz, as well as by Warmian ( Ermland ) bishop Wacław Leszczyński and Wincenty Korwin Gosiewski for the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and Habsburg delegate and mediator Franz Paul Freiherr von Lisola.

He was a student of Wacław Sierpiński, became a distinguished author of works on set theory and had served as an Assistant Professor at Warsaw University.

Wacław Sobieski ( October 10, 1872 in Lwów – April 3, 1935 in Kraków, Poland ) was a Polish historian, professor of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, member of the Polish Academy of Learning ( Polska Akademia Umiejętności ( PAU ), and author of many works on the history of Poland especially of the 17th century.

On January 18, 1905 he shot and killed with a revolver a fellow artist and popular Warsaw society figure Wacław Pawliszczak during a quarrel in a restaurant in Warsaw, then was arrested and released on 2, 000 rubles bail while charged with manslaughter ( crime of passion ), however, he was never really tried by the Tsarist justice system, perhaps busy with the Revolution of 1905 and other problems, therefore he, being an Austrian subject, went eventually to Kraków and never did any time nor paid any retribution to the deceased family for his crime.

Karol Wacław Świerczewski (; callsign Walter ; born on 22 February 1897 in Warsaw, died on 28 March 1947 at Jabłonki, near Baligród ) was a Pole who became a Soviet military officer and a general.

Scientific conference on Karol Wacław Świerczewski in Baligród

Regent Milczek's wish, on the other hand, is to bring about the union of his son Wacław ( Rafał Królikowski ) with Podstolina.

It was designed in 1907 by Wacław Szymanowski for planned erection on the centenary of Chopin's birth in 1910, but its execution was delayed by controversy about the design, then by the outbreak of World War I.

In an unnamed small Polish town on May 8, 1945, the day Germany officially surrendered, Maciek ( Zbigniew Cybulski ) and Andrzej ( Adam Pawlikowski ) are Home Army soldiers who have been assigned to assassinate the communist Commissar Szczuka ( Wacław Zastrzeżyński ), but fail in their first attempt to ambush him, killing two civilian cement plant workers instead.

Mitosis was discovered in frog, rabbit, and cat cornea cells in 1873 and described for the first time by the Polish histologist Wacław Mayzel in 1875.

Sierpiński curves are a recursively defined sequence of continuous closed plane fractal curves discovered by Wacław Sierpiński, which in the limit completely fill the unit square: thus their limit curve, also called the Sierpiński curve, is an example of a space-filling curve.

According to and, the first mathematicians to prove independently the theorem in the nowadays common abstract measure space setting were Frigyes Riesz in,, and Wacław Sierpiński in: an earlier generalization is due to Nikolai Luzin, who succeeded in slightly relaxing the requirement of finiteness of measure of the domain of convergence of the pointwise converging functions in the ample paper, as recalls.

In number theory, a Sierpinski or Sierpiński number is an odd natural number k such that k2 < sup > n </ sup > + 1 is composite, for all natural numbers n ; in 1960, Wacław Sierpiński proved that there are infinitely many odd integers k which have this property.

His work earned him an honored place in mathematics alongside such Polish mathematicians as Wojciech Brudzewski, Jan Brożek ( Broscius ), Nicolas Copernicus, Samuel Dickstein, Stefan Banach, Stefan Bergman, Marian Rejewski, Wacław Sierpiński, Stanisław Zaremba and Witold Hurewicz.

Wacław Szamotulski, as Wacław of Szamotuły was also known, was a true Renaissance man, educated in such diverse areas as law, mathematics and philosophy — Aristotelian, in particular.

There are also preliminary plans to erect a 1: 1-scale replica of Wacław Szymanowski's Art Nouveau statue of Frederic Chopin found in Warsaw's Royal Baths along Chicago's lakefront in addition to a different sculpture commemorating the artist in Chopin Park for the 200th anniversary of Frederic Chopin's birth.

Another milestone came a decade later in 1915, when Wacław Sierpiński constructed his famous triangle then, one year later, his carpet.

The Sierpinski carpet is a plane fractal first described by Wacław Sierpiński in 1916.

* September 26 – Wacław Berent, Polish novelist and translator ( d. 1940 )

Past winners include Nobel Laureate Roald Hoffmann, Aleksander Wolszczan, Hilary Koprowski, Peter T. Wolczanski, Wacław Szybalski and Benoît Mandelbrot.

Hańska was married to a man twenty years her senior, Wacław Hański, a wealthy Polish landowner living near Kiev.

Wacław Hański died in 1841, and his widow and her admirer finally had the chance to pursue their affections.

Since Janiszewski was deceased, Kuratowski's supervisor was Wacław Sierpiński.

Between the 1860s and 1917, the town was a place of political exile, with some of the more prominent exiles including the Polish writer Wacław Sieroszewski, as well as Bolshevik revolutionaries Ivan Babushkin and Viktor Nogin.

Composers writing during this period include Wacław z Szamotuł, Mikołaj Zieleński, and Mikołaj Gomółka.

Vaslav Nijinsky was born in 1889 or 1890 in Kiev, Ukraine, a part of Russian Empire as Wacław Niżyński, to ethnic Polish parents, dancers Tomasz Niżyński and Eleonora Bereda.

The church does not exist any longer, and the oldest still existing church in Radom is St. Wacław, funded in the 13th century by Prince of Sandomierz Leszek I the White.

but the mathematics behind it goes back to Wacław Sierpiński.

In response to that, and particularly the arrest and exile of several vocal opponents by the Russian troops, namely bishop of Kiev Józef Andrzej Załuski, bishop of Cracow Kajetan Sołtyk, and hetman Wacław Rzewuski with his son Seweryn, Polish magnates Adam Krasiński, Bishop of Kamenets, Kazimierz Pułaski and Michał Krasiński and their allies decided to form a confederatio-a legal military association opposing the government.

Some of the instigators of the confederation included Adam Stanisław Krasiński, Michał Hieronim Krasiński, Kajetan Sołtyk, Wacław Rzewuski, Michał Jan Pac, Jerzy August Mniszech, Joachim Potocki and Teodor Wessel.

* Wacław Sierpiński describes the Sierpinski triangle.

* Wacław Sierpiński gives the first example of an absolutely normal number and describes the Sierpinski carpet.

By early September he had gathered a group of mathematicians from Warsaw University and Lwów University ( most notably, founders of the Polish School of Mathematics — Stanisław Leśniewski, Stefan Mazurkiewicz and Wacław Sierpiński ), who were also able to break Russian ciphers.

Among the best known adherents of this fellowship are Mikołaj Sienicki, Jan Niemojewski, and writers and poets Zbigniew Morsztyn and Wacław Potocki.

He studied at the University of Warsaw, together with Zygmunt Janiszewski, Stefan Mazurkiewicz, Wacław Sierpiński, Kazimierz Kuratowski, and Stanisław Saks.

Casimir Pulaski, or Kazimierz Pułaski in Polish (; full name Kazimierz Michał Wacław Wiktor Pułaski ; March 6, 1745 – October 11, 1779 ) was a Polish nobleman of Ślepowron coat-of-arms, soldier and military commander who has been called " the father of American cavalry ".

Lysenkoism was then rapidly rejected starting from 1956 and modern genetics research departments were formed, including the first department of genetics headed by Wacław Gajewski, which was started at the Warsaw University in 1958.

Wacław Szybalski was born in 1921 in Lwów, Poland, into a Polish intelligentsia family.

He was a student of Wacław Sierpiński and a member of the Polish Academy of Learning ( PAU ).

The founder of the club was captain Wacław Denhoff-Czarnocki, who also came up with the name of the club.

On 30 December 1443, Zbigniew Oleśnicki, the bishop of Kraków, bought Sewer / Siewierz from Wacław I of Teschen, who was deeply in debts then.

He was a brother of Wacław Jędrzejewicz and married Cezaria Baudouin de Courtenay Ehrenkreutz Jędrzejewiczowa, a pioneer of ethnography in Poland.

Wacław Rzewuski ( 1705 – 1779 ) was a Polish drama writer and poet as well as a military commander and a Grand Crown Hetman.

Two ideas of Polish policy clashed at the time ; a more tolerant and less assimilationist approach advocated by Józef Piłsudski ,< ref name =" Brzez "> Zbigniew Brzezinski in his introduction to Wacław Jędrzejewicz ’ s “ Pilsudski A Life For Poland ” wrote: Pilsudski ’ s vision of Poland, paradoxically, was never attained.

Wacław Kisielewski ( February 12, 1943 – July 12, 1986 ) was a Polish pianist, son of Stefan Kisielewski.

Wacław Potocki (; 1621, Wola Łużańska-1696 ) was a Polish nobleman ( szlachcic ), moralist, poet, and writer.

Wacław Potocki was born to a minor szlachta family, belonging to the Arian Christian sect of the Polish brethren.

Wacław was given a choice between exile and conversion to Roman Catholicism, and he reluctantly chose conversion.

He was married to Konstancja Małgorzata Lubomirska and had three children, Wacław Rzewuski, Izabella Rzewuska and Maria Rzewuska.