Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski
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Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski (born Sept. 3, 1921 in Lwów, Poland, now Lviv, Ukraine) is a Polish-, Belgian- and American-educated [[civil engineering]civil engeneer[industrial engineering|industrial engineer]] with 50 patents to his credit, and a lexicographer and writer on history, energy and geopolitical problems [[writer][history|historian]].
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[edit] World War II
He left Warsaw, Poland, in December 1939. He was arrested in Dukla by Ukrainians in the service of the German Gestapo and sent successively to German concentration camps in Barwinek, Krosno, Jasło, Tarnów, Oświęcim (Auschwitz), and in 1940, in Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen.
In 1945, Pogonowski began on the Brandenburg Death March from Sachsenhausen, but escaped.
[edit] Engineer
His career has included academia and practical and consulting work in the U.S. petroleum industry.
He studied engineering, and in 1954 graduated in Civil Engineering from the Catholic University: Institute Superieur de Commerce,Economic History St. Ignace in Antwerp, Belgium: Corporation Management Training Program including Geology at the [(University of Texas )].
He then taught descriptive geometry at the University of Tennessee, and in 1955 graduated with an M.S. in Industrial Engineering.
Upon graduation he worked for Shell Oil Company, and then worked starting in 1960 for Texaco Research and Development as a Project Engineer, later as Professional Consulting Engineer Licence registered in Virginia, Louisiana and Texas
[edit] Patents
He authored a total of 50 American and foreign patents on marine structures for the petroleum industry.
[edit] Adjunct Professor of Civil Engineering
During later years he also taught courses on marine structures of the petroleum industry in Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University as Adjunct Professor in the College of Civil Engineering and worked as [(Consulting Engineer)].
[edit] Books
- Poland: A Historical Atlas, Chronology of Poland's Constitutional and Political Development, Evolution of Language and Polish Identity,220 maps and graphs(black and white), 144 Coats of Arms of Polish Towns (in Color), revised edition, New York, Hippocrene Books, 1989.
- The Jews in Poland: A Documentary History: the Rise of [the] Jews as a Nation from Congressus Judaicus in Poland to the Knesset in Israel, Jews in Polish Art; Jewish Press and Publications in Poland; Atlas, Main Centers of Jewish Culture in the Old World, 323 BC to 1988 AD; Holocaust; Concentration Camps and Ghetto details; Index; Dictionary of Yiddish Terms Used in Polish; Foreword by: Richard Pipes, Professor of History, Harvard Uniwersity, former Director of East European and Soviet Affairs in the National Security Council, 1981-1982; New York, Hippocrene Books, 1993.
- Unabridged Polish-English Dictionary, 3 volumes, New York, Hippocrene Books, 1997.
