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Jerzy Giedroyc

Born

in Minsk, Belarus

July 27, 1906

Died

September 14, 2000

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Giedroyc was born into a Polish-Lithuanian aristocratic family; with the title of the kniaź, prince, his studies in Moscow were interrupted by the October Revolution, when he returned home, and during the Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921 his family left Minsk for Warsaw, where he graduated from the Jan Zamoyski gymnasium in 1924 and studied law and Ukrainian history and literature at the University of Warsaw. As a journalist and civil servant in interwar Poland, he maintained contacts with leading Ukrainians and urged the Roman Catholic Church to improve relations with the Greek Catholic Church to which most Ukrainians belonged, insisting that Poland's success as a national state depended on satisfying the aspirations of minorities so that mi Giedroyc was born into a Polish-Lithuanian aristocratic family; with the title of the kniaź, prince, his studies in Moscow were interrupted by the October Revolution, when he returned home, and during the Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921 his family left Minsk for Warsaw, where he graduated from the Jan Zamoyski gymnasium in 1924 and studied law and Ukrainian history and literature at the University of Warsaw. As a journalist and civil servant in interwar Poland, he maintained contacts with leading Ukrainians and urged the Roman Catholic Church to improve relations with the Greek Catholic Church to which most Ukrainians belonged, insisting that Poland's success as a national state depended on satisfying the aspirations of minorities so that minority nationalists would not have convincing arguments against Polish statehood; he thus took the side of Józef Piłsudski as against the National Democrats. In 1930 he took over as editor of the weekly "Dzień Akademicki" (Academic Day) which he soon transformed into the biweekly "Bunt Młodych", renaming it Polityka in 1937.

During World War II he served under General Władysław Anders in the Polish Army and kept up friendly contacts with representatives of other nationalities. After the war he moved to Paris, where he published and edited a leading Polish-émigré literary-political journal, Kultura (1947–2000), which promoted a peaceful settlement of Poland's eastern borders, accepting the results of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and the Yalta Conference, even though many Poles regarded these as betrayals of Poland; this helped lay the groundwork for Poland's successful eastern policy after the fall of communism. His closest collaborator was Juliusz Mieroszewski, who provided the theoretical justification for Polish recognition of the borders with Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania (whose future independence he predicted long before it came about).

In 2006 the Polish Sejm declared the year 2006 to be the "Year of Jerzy Giedroyc."

He died in Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France. ...more

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Jerzy Giedroyc’s books

Average rating: 4.24 · 100 ratings · 5 reviews · 44 distinct works

	Autobiografia na cztery ręce by Jerzy Giedroyc, Krzysztof Pomian (Editor) 3.76 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1994 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jerzy Giedroyc - Czesław Miłosz. Listy 1952-1963 by Jerzy Giedroyc, Czesław Miłosz 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jerzy Giedroyc - Witold Gombrowicz. Listy 1950-1969 by Jerzy Giedroyc, Witold Gombrowicz, Bogumiła Berdychowska (Editor) 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jerzy Giedroyc - Andrzej Bobkowski. Listy 1946-1961 by Jerzy Giedroyc, Andrzej Bobkowski, Jan Zieliński (Editor) 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jerzy Giedroyc - Jerzy Stempowski. Listy 1946-1969. Część pierwsza by Jerzy Giedroyc, Jerzy Stempowski, Andrzej Stanisław Kowalczyk (Editor) 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1988 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	З Нотаток Редактора it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jerzy Giedroyc - Konstanty A. Jeleński. Listy 1950 1987 by Jerzy Giedroyc, Konstanty A. Jeleński, Wojciech Karpiński (Editor) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1993	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Єжи Ґедройць та українська еміграція. Листування 1950-1982 років by Jerzy Giedroyc, Bogumiła Berdychowska, Богдан Осадчук it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jerzy Giedroyc - Stanisław Vincenz. Listy 1946-1969 by Jerzy Giedroyc, Stanisław Vincenz it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2021	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jerzy Giedroyc - Józef Wittlin. Listy 1947–1976 by Jerzy Giedroyc, Józef Wittlin, Rafał Habielski (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars