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Transcript of Jan Bloch in Poland LucernE, MaY 2010 by Krzysztof Szwarc, Witold Kmiecik and Katarzyna Szwarc.
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Who was Jan G. Bloch?
Jan Bloch Society and its achievements (1987 – 2007)
Central Military Library Exhibition
Łęczna Exhibition
Jan Bloch Foundation
Publications on Jan Bloch
Jan Bloch by Professor Jan Kołodziejczyk
Pranks of History by Andrzej Żor
The Future of War by Jan G. Bloch (selection by Dr Grzegorz Bąbiak)
Anthropology of Sewage by Dr Włodzimierz Pessel
Jan Bloch in our awareness
Jan Gottlieb Bloch
(1836 – 1902)
Son of poor Jewish cloth dyer from Radom
Page working in front desk of a Warsaw banker
Scribe in a frontier land estate
One of most active business leaders of the Kingdom of Poland
Prince of Railways
Tireless pacifist
Brilliant and versatile man
The first Polish candidate to the Nobel Prize
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Jan bloch society
Established in 1987
Founders of the Society:
Aleksander Bocheński,
Peter Van den Dungen,
Andrzej Werner.
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„Jan Bloch, Varsovian Extraordinary”
Written by Elżbieta Małecka
Published in Warsaw, in 2002
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War and peace museum in lucernE,
Warsaw,february 2004
Swiss – Polish exhibition at the
Central Military Library in Warsaw
Under the honorary patronage of
Minister of National Defence and
Swiss Ambassador to Poland
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War and peace museum in lucernE, Łeczna,
March 2007
Three years later the same exhibition
was shown in the Regional Museum in
Łęczna
Łęczna is a small town, close to Lublin
Jan Bloch bought land estate in Łęczna
in 1879
The real estate in Łęczna was one of the
largest in contemporary Poland
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Owners of leczna estate in the years 1800-1944
by
Ewa J. Leśniewska
Bloch was also a member of the
landed gentry
He purchased a land estate in
Łęczna in the Lublin region
The author was the custodian of
Łęczna Regional Museum
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Jan bloch foundation
Set up in March 2005
At the initiative of Krzysztof
Szwarc
www.bloch.org
The website runs in 3 three
languages- Polish, English and
German (although not all the
articles are translated into German)
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Jan bloch (1836-1902). Sketch for a portrait of the prince of polish railways.
by
Professor Ryszard Kołodziejczyk
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Pranks of history
by
Andrzej Żor
Published in Warsaw, in 2005
Part of the series called Extraordinary
Biographies devoted to persons
merited
in shaping the history
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The future of war
by
Jan G. Bloch
(selection and introduction by dr Grzegorz Bąbiak)
Published in 2005 by Polish Institute
of International Affairs
Consists of most poignant excerpts
from The Future of War
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Anthropology of SEWAGE
by
dr Włodzimierz Pessel
Published in Warsaw, in 2010
Contains description of the famous
dispute between the Warsaw
Mayor Sokrates Starynkiewicz and
Jan Bloch as to the canalization
system in Warsaw
Publication partly sponsored by Jan
Bloch Foundation
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Jan bloch chapel in powazki cemetery
The conservation work was
finalised thanks to Mr. Jerzy Waldorff
- Honarary Member of the Society and
organizer of renovation of the Old
Powązki (died in December 1999)
The history of conservation work was
presented during one of the scholarly
conferences
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What can we do today not to let jan bloch fall into
oblivion?
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