Polányi

Polányi, PolanyI is a surname. There have been a number of prominent individuals in the Polanyi family:

• Adolf Pollacsek (1820–1871) ∞ Zsófia Schlesinger
  • Mihály Polányi (til 1904 Pollacsek) (Hungarian: Polányi (Pollacsek) Mihály; March 21, 1848, Bánhegy (Dluha) - January 10, 1905), prominent member of the bourgeoisie involved in railroads
    ∞ (1881 at Warsaw) Cecília Wohl (Hungarian: (Pollacsek Mihályné) Wohl Cecília, Wohl Cecilia, French: Cecile Wohl; 1862, Vilnius - 1939), a Lithuanian-Viennese master, Budapestian salonist, a daughter of Lithuanian Rabbi Alex Wohl^[1]
    • Laura Polanyi, later Stricker (Striker) (1882–1957)
      ∞ Sándor Striker^[2]
    • Adolf Polányi^[2]
    • Karl (Paul von) Polanyi (Hungarian: Polányi Károly, 1886, Vienna - 1964, Pickering, Ontario), a Hungarian-Canadian political economist and author of the The Great Transformation
      ∞ Ilona Duczynska (pl)
      • Kari Polanyi-Levitt (born 1923, Vienna), the Emerita Professor of Economics at McGill University, Montreal^[3]
    • Zsófia Polányi^[2]
    • Michael (von) Polanyi (Hungarian: Polányi Mihály, 1891, Budapest - 1976, Manchester), Hungarian chemist, philosopher of science, economist ∞ Magda Elizabeth Polanyi
      • John C(harles von). Polanyi (Hungarian: Polányi János, born 1929, Berlin), Hungarian-German-Canadian Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry
    • Pál Polányi^[2]

References

• http://homepage3.nifty.com/thinkers/plnykcv.htm (Japanese)

See also

• Polányi (disambiguation)

• Polany
• Poľany
• Polány; Magyar-polány, etc.