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Wanda Pawlik

Wanda Pawlik - She was born on November 18, 1926 in Długosiodło near Ostrołęka. After graduating from the Secondary School for Adults in Wieliczka in 1948, she began studies at the Jagiellonian University. In 1952, she defended her MA in Polish Studies and started teaching at the Agricultural...

Max Herrmann-Neisse

Max Herrmann-Neisse was born in Nysa on May 23, 1886. German writer, poet and journalist. He was the son of the innkeeper. He studied German philology in Munich and Wrocław. In 1906 he published his debut volume of poems "Ein kleines Leben". From 1909 he worked in the Nysa newspaper "Neisser...

Jerzy Kozarzewski

Jerzy Kozarzewski - poet, soldier of the National Armed Forces, prisoner of Mauthausen, social activist, founder of the Music Center in Nysa. He was born on October 21, 1913 in Trawniki Lubelskie. On the distaff side, he was the great-grandson of Cyprian Norwid's brother - Ksawery. He spent his...

Bernhard Grzimek

Bernhard Grzimek was born in Nysa in 1909. German veterinarian, zoologist, founder of the Serengeti National Park, awarded an Oscar in 1960 for the documentary about the Serengeti. He graduated from high school in Nysa in 1928, after which he started his veterinary studies in Leipzig, continuing...

Prince Nicholas II Niemodliński

Prince Nicholas II Niemodliński - in 1476, after the death of his father Nicholas I, together with his older brother Jan II called Dobre, he took over the reign of his estates in Opole. Together, the brothers made the most important decisions about their principality. In 1497, the governor of...

Christoph Scheiner

Christoph Scheiner - der erste Obere - Rektor des Jesuitengymnasiums in Nysa. Hervorragender Wissenschaftler, Astronom, Entdecker der schwarzen Flecken in der Sonne. Er schuf das Helioskop zur Beobachtung der Sonne und ist auch der Schöpfer des Stromabnehmers, der noch heute verwendet...

Charles I Habsburg

Charles I Habsburg - son of Charles of Styria, Archduke of Austria and Maria Anna of Bavaria. Brother of the Polish queen Anna, wife of Sigismund III. As the youngest of his siblings, the family gave him up to the Jesuits for upbringing, and assigned him to the clergy. In 1608 he was elected...

Biskup Franciszek Ludwik von Neuburg

Bishop Franciszek Ludwik von Neuburg - he came from a famous princely family, his sister Eleonora was the wife of the Austrian Emperor Leopold I. He was a great lover and patron of the arts, he took a liking to Nysa and Wrocław, where he left his wonderful works of life. He was the longest...

Konrad Emil Bloch

Konrad Emil Bloch - a biochemist born in Nysa, who, due to his origin, left for the United States in 1936. He received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his research into the essence of cholesterol, which allowed him to effectively prevent arteriosclerosis, which is the cause of heart attacks.

György Klapka

György Klapka - (1812-1892) - Hungarian general who supported the Polish January Uprising. In 1864, he signed a secret treaty on Polish-Hungarian cooperation with the Polish National Government. During the Prussian-Austrian war in 1866, he led the Hungarian Legion formed in Nysa, which...

Recommended places

Post Office No 1

The Post Office No 1 is located at ul. Krzywoustego 21. The building of the Post Office is a building from the late 19 th century, built in the neo-Renaissance style. On the façade, there are the...

Władysław Broniewski Municipal and Communal Public Library in Nysa

Since 1955, the library has been seated in a historic building of the Weigh House. Apart from a collection of volumes, we will also find here audiobooks and multimedia presentations. We may use the...

PANS. Collegium Artium, Building G

The building G houses the Dean’s Office No 4 and the Institute of Architecture and Urban Design. Here, there is also the Regional Centre of Knowledge Transfer and Innovative Technology at PWSZ in...