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Mickiewicz is a Polish form of the Belarusian surname Mickievič.[1] It corresponds to Lithuanianized: Mickevičius, and Belarusian, Russian: Mitskevich. Notable people with this surname include:
- Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855), Polish poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator, professor of Slavic literature, and political activist, regarded as national poet in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus
- Denis Mickiewicz (born 1929), Professor Emeritus of Russian Literature at Duke University and the founding conductor of the Yale Russian Chorus
- Jacek Mickiewicz (born 1970), Polish road racing cyclist
- Maria Mickiewicz (born 1984), Polish chess master
- Matt Mickiewicz (born 1983), internet entrepreneur
- Mieczysław Mickiewicz (1879-1939), Ukrainian politician and lawyer of Polish descent, statesman of the Second Polish Republic
- Wincenty Mickiewicz (1882–1954), writer
See also
edit- Mickiewicz (crater), on Mercury
- 5889 Mickiewicz, a minor planet
- List of things named after Adam Mickiewicz
- All pages with titles containing Mickiewicz
References
edit- ^ Унбегаун Б. Русские фамилии / Пер. с англ. Общ. ред. Б. А. Успенского. — М.: Прогресс, 1989. — C. 232. — ISBN 5-01-001045-3. Original: Boris Unbegaun, Russian surnames. — Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972, p. 303.