Jerzy Giedroyc | |
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Jerzy Giedroyc (Maisons-Laffitte, 1997) |
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Born | Jerzy Władysław Giedroyc July 27, 1906 Minsk, Russian Empire |
Died | September 14, 2000 Maisons-Laffitte, France |
(aged 94)
Resting place | Le Mesnil-le-Roi |
Language | Polish |
Nationality | Polish |
Alma mater | University of Warsaw |
Jerzy Giedroyc (27 July 1906 in Minsk, Russian Empire (now Belarus) – 14 September 2000 in Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France[1]) was a Polish writer and political activist.
A conservative in interwar Poland, after World War II he published and edited a leading Polish-émigré literary-political journal, Kultura (1947–2000).
In 2006 the Polish Sejm declared the year 2006 to be the "Year of Jerzy Giedroyc."