jan bloch in poland lucerne, may 2010 by krzysztof szwarc, witold kmiecik and katarzyna szwarc

Jan Bloch in Poland

LucernE, MaY 2010

by Krzysztof Szwarc, Witold Kmiecik and Katarzyna Szwarc

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Who was Jan G. Bloch?

Jan Bloch Society and its achievements (1987 – 2007)

Central Military Library Exhibition

Łęczna Exhibition

Jan Bloch Foundation

Publications on Jan Bloch

Jan Bloch by Professor Jan Kołodziejczyk

Pranks of History by Andrzej Żor

The Future of War by Jan G. Bloch (selection by Dr Grzegorz Bąbiak)

Anthropology of Sewage by Dr Włodzimierz Pessel

Jan Bloch in our awareness


Who was jan bloch?

Jan Gottlieb Bloch

(1836 – 1902)

Son of poor Jewish cloth dyer from Radom

Page working in front desk of a Warsaw banker

Scribe in a frontier land estate

One of most active business leaders of the Kingdom of Poland

Prince of Railways

Tireless pacifist

Brilliant and versatile man

The first Polish candidate to the Nobel Prize


Jan bloch society and its achievements(1987-2007)


Jan bloch society

Established in 1987

Founders of the Society:

Aleksander Bocheński,

Peter Van den Dungen,

Andrzej Werner.

6Jan Bloch Foundation. All rights reserved.

FOUNDING FATHERS of Jan Bloch Society


„Jan Bloch, Varsovian Extraordinary”

Written by Elżbieta Małecka

Published in Warsaw, in 2002

8Jan Bloch Foundation. All rights reserved.

War and peace museum in lucernE,

Warsaw,february 2004

Swiss – Polish exhibition at the

Central Military Library in Warsaw

Under the honorary patronage of

Minister of National Defence and

Swiss Ambassador to Poland


War and peace museum in lucernE, Łeczna,

March 2007

Three years later the same exhibition

was shown in the Regional Museum in

Łęczna

Łęczna is a small town, close to Lublin

Jan Bloch bought land estate in Łęczna

in 1879

The real estate in Łęczna was one of the

largest in contemporary Poland


Owners of leczna estate in the years 1800-1944

by

Ewa J. Leśniewska

Bloch was also a member of the

landed gentry

He purchased a land estate in

Łęczna in the Lublin region

The author was the custodian of

Łęczna Regional Museum


Jan bloch foundation

Set up in March 2005

At the initiative of Krzysztof

Szwarc

www.bloch.org

The website runs in 3 three

languages- Polish, English and

German (although not all the

articles are translated into German)


Publications on jan bloch


Jan bloch (1836-1902). Sketch for a portrait of the prince of polish railways.

by

Professor Ryszard Kołodziejczyk


Pranks of history

by

Andrzej Żor


Part of the series called Extraordinary

Biographies devoted to persons

merited

in shaping the history


The future of war

by

Jan G. Bloch

(selection and introduction by dr Grzegorz Bąbiak)

Published in 2005 by Polish Institute

of International Affairs

Consists of most poignant excerpts

from The Future of War


Anthropology of SEWAGE

by

dr Włodzimierz Pessel


Contains description of the famous

dispute between the Warsaw

Mayor Sokrates Starynkiewicz and

Jan Bloch as to the canalization

system in Warsaw

Publication partly sponsored by Jan

Bloch Foundation


Jan bloch chapel in powazki cemetery

The conservation work was

finalised thanks to Mr. Jerzy Waldorff

- Honarary Member of the Society and

organizer of renovation of the Old

Powązki (died in December 1999)

The history of conservation work was

presented during one of the scholarly

conferences


What can we do today not to let jan bloch fall into

oblivion?


jan bloch in poland lucerne, may 2010 by krzysztof szwarc, witold kmiecik and katarzyna szwarc

Documents

bloch foundation publications

bloch selection

leniewska bloch

gottlieb bloch

czna czna

swiss polish exhibition

warsaw bankerscribe

peace museum