• The Peterson family was a family whose several members had a historical importance in the city of Bydgoszcz, Poland. They were influential from the beginning...
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  • Wilhelm and Feliks Kopp were two prominent entrepreneurs of Bydgoszcz between the end of the 19th century and the mid-20th century. Wilhelm Gottlieb was...
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    C.A. Franke died in 1853 in Bydgoszcz. The son of Caroline and Carl, Hermann, was born on June 18, 1829, in Bydgoszcz. After the death of his father...
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    "State School of Art Industry" in Bydgoszcz. On April 1, 1922, Mondral returned to Poland and settled in Bydgoszcz, working as the head of the Graphic...
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    who came from a wealthy landowning family. In Bydgoszcz, he exhibited at the Municipal Museum and at the Bydgoszcz Salon on Old Market Square, which was...
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    Mayor of Bydgoszcz between September 1939 and February 1941. He was a war criminal, responsible for the murder of Poles and Jews in Bydgoszcz in 1939....
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    observations to Frederick II in June 1772, during a meeting which took place in Bydgoszcz, where the monarch stopped on his way from Königsberg. Once the First...
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  • a German sculptor, who in particular realized two major monuments in Bydgoszcz: the Deluge Fountain and The Archer. He received a golden medal at the...
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  • Jadwiga Szopieraj (category Artists from Bydgoszcz)
    Polish woman who pioneered professional photography during the interwar in Bydgoszcz, Poland. Jadwiga Krygier was born in Leszczyce, a small town 8 km south...
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    Konrad Pałubicki (category Burials in Nowofarny cemetery in Bydgoszcz)
    activist and animator of musical life in Gdańsk and Bydgoszcz. He created the hymn of Bydgoszcz. He taught at the Academy of Music in Gdańsk and the...
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    Bronisław Kentzer (category Businesspeople from Bydgoszcz)
    uprising insurgent. Kentzer pioneered large scale commerce and trading in Bydgoszcz. Bronisław Kentzer was born on 10 January 1880 in Prust, today's Pruszcz...
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    Michał Łempicki (category Burials in Nowofarny cemetery in Bydgoszcz)
    they are now part of the collections of the Regional Museum in Bydgoszcz. The Łempicki family had no children. His father Michał senior was sentenced two...
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    Stefania Tuchołkowa (category Writers from Bydgoszcz)
    Bydgoszcz. She was buried at the Bydgoszcz Nowofarny cemetery. Her funerals gathered crowds of Bydgoszcz residents, including the mayor of Bydgoszcz,...
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    Liepāja (in today's Latvia), passing her final exams in 1915. While her family moved abroad for professional reasons (Russia, Romania), she left in October...
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    successful German entrepreneurs, industrialists and businessmen in today's Bydgoszcz from the second half of the 19th century. Their buildings and realizations...
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    Hasan Konopacki (category People from Bydgoszcz)
    July 1946, following the Polish population resettlements, the family transferred to Bydgoszcz. At the train station, they were looked after by Mr. and Mrs...
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  • Stefan Klajbor (category Architects from Bydgoszcz)
    architect and a cultural personage of Bydgoszcz during the 20th century. Stefan Jan Klajbor was born in Bydgoszcz on 20 October 1924. He was the son of...
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  • Hermann Dietz (category Members of Bydgoszcz City Council)
    Bromberg/Bydgoszcz. The Dietz ancestors were German colonists who established in the city after the First Partition of Poland in 1772. The family branch...
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  • Bronisław Kłobucki (category Artists from Bydgoszcz)
    works are associated with Bydgoszcz and its region. His parents were Stanisław and Marcjanna, née Strysik. They moved to Bydgoszcz in 1894, coming from the...
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    Józef Napoleon Hutten-Czapski (category People from Bydgoszcz)
    fr:Henryk Woźniakowski a Polish editor and translator. Teresa (1903). Bydgoszcz Czapski family Leliwa coat of arms Russian tradition of the Knights Hospitaller...
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    Ryszard Markwart (category Burials in Nowofarny cemetery in Bydgoszcz)
    Berlin and Bydgoszcz. Richard Marquardt was born on 9 September 1868 in Ostróda, then part of the German Empire, from a Polish-German family. His father...
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  • Rudolf Kern (category Architects from Bydgoszcz)
    Rudolf Kern was an important designer and builder in Bydgoszcz, at the end of the Prussian period of the city. Most his works have been realized between...
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    Antoni Chołoniewski (category Writers from Bydgoszcz)
    villa he inhabited with his family, while in Bydgoszcz, at 119 Gdańska Street. A street in the Szwederowo district of Bydgoszcz has been also named after...
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    suggestion, the sculptor moved to a small house in the botanical garden of Bydgoszcz, looking for a city "whose character guarantees the possibility of quiet...
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  • Zygmunt Felczak (category Burials in Nowofarny cemetery in Bydgoszcz)
    President Ignacy Mościcki. In the late 1930s, Zygmunt Felczak moved to Bydgoszcz. From the end of 1937 till 1939, he was the deputy editor-in-chief of...
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  • Anton Hoffmann (category Architects from Bydgoszcz)
    builder in Prussian-time Bydgoszcz during the entire second half of the 19th century. He witnessed the transformation of Bydgoszcz, creating numerous residential...
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    Bydgoszcz displays an abundant variety of architectures, with styles from neo-gothic, neo-baroque and neoclassicism, to Art Nouveau and modernism; hence...
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    Lewin Louis Aronsohn (category Politicians from Bydgoszcz)
    a land trader while managing the family estate of Mamlicz, near Żnin. The Aronsohn family came to Bromberg (Bydgoszcz) in 1864. Here, Lewin Aronsohn attended...
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    Stanisław Rolbieski (category People from Bydgoszcz)
    entrepreneur, economic activist, city counselor in Bydgoszcz and founder of the Kabel Polski factory in Bydgoszcz. Stanisław was born on November 11, 1873, in...
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    Józef Makowski (category Artists from Bydgoszcz)
    (1914–1997), was a Polish sculptor and painter whose works are associated with Bydgoszcz. Józef Makowski was born in Toruń, then part of the German Empire, on...
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