Stefan Tytus Zygmunt Dąbrowski (1877–1947) of Radwan coat of arms – Physician, physiologist, biochemist, and Polish politician. Rector: Adam Mickiewicz University - Poznań, Poland (1945–1946).[1][2][3][4]

Stefan Tytus Zygmunt Dąbrowski (Żądło-Dąbrowski z Dąbrówki h. Radwan) -- from 1935 photo of Professors at Poznań University

Biography

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Stefan Tytus Zygmunt Dąbrowski of Radwan coat of arms was born on 31 January 1877 in Warsaw, Poland, into an intelligentsia family (Żądło-Dąbrowski z Dąbrówki h. Radwan).[5][6][7][8][9] Dąbrowski's szlachta (noble) family was a fundamental influence on his life, which included growing up in an atmosphere of patriotism in the environs of Warsaw at the end of the nineteenth century.[10]

In January 1919, Poland's Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, made Dąbrowski Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs.[10]

On 11 May 1939 the Senate of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań chose Dąbrowski, a professor, for the position of rector; however, the explosion of war beginning with Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939, made the accession of Dąbrowski's rectorial duties impossible. Dąbrowski had foreknowledge of events in 1939, and spent the duration of the war in many localities hiding from the Gestapo, Nazi Germany's secret police.[10] Under the Nazi's Generalplan Ost, more than 61,000 Polish activists, intelligentsia, nobles (szlachta), actors, former officers, etc. (all those deemed capable of rousing the Polish people to defense and patriotic action), were to be interned or shot. (See: Operation Tannenberg, Operation Sonderaktion Krakau, and Massacre of Lwów professors.) Nazi racist ideology dictated the Polish elite were largely Nordic, and thus capable of dynamic leadership, therefore their liquidation or internment would deprive the Slavonic masses of Poland of any effective resistance.[11]

Publications

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  • Dąbrowski, Stefan (1922). Walka o rekruta polskiego pod okupacją (in Polish). Warszawa: Perzyński, Niklewicz i S-ka. OCLC 22520763. "Battle for Polish Recruits Under Occupation"
  • Dąbrowski, Stefan (1925). Zagadnienie obrony narodowej w wojnie nowoczesnej: organizacja rządu i naczelnego dowództwa (in Polish). Poznań: Wielkopolska Księgarnia Nakładowa Karola Rzepeckiego. OCLC 69304607. "The Issue of National Defense in Modern War: Organization of Government and the Supreme Command"

Footnotes

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  1. ^ Jurza, Ryszard. "Dynasties and Aristocratic Families: Aristocratic family Dąbrowski coat of arms Radwan". GENEALOGIA DYNASTYCZNA (DYNASTIC GENEALOGY). genealog.home.pl. Archived from the original on 25 July 2011. Retrieved 7 June 2007.
  2. ^ Czartoryski, Jerzy (20 February 2018). "Stefan Tytus Zygmunt DĄBROWSKI h. Radwan". Descendants of Prince Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski - General Ziem Podolskich (1734-1823) with spouses and their descendants. czartoryski.ca. Archived from the original on 25 July 2018. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
  3. ^ Minakowski, Marek Jerzy. "Stefan Tytus Zygmunt Dąbrowski h. Radwan". WIELKA GENEALOGIA MINAKOWSKIEGO (THE GREAT GENEALOGY OF MINAKOWSKI) (in Polish). Dr Minakowski Publikacje Elektroniczne. Archived from the original on 16 August 2018. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
  4. ^ "Stefan Tytus Dąbrowski". Poczet Rektorów 1919-2008 (Body of Rectors 1919-2008) (in Polish). Poznań, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland: Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Archived from the original on 25 July 2018. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
  5. ^ Pacyńska, Teresa (2009). "STEFAN TYTUS ZYGMUNT DĄBROWSKI (1877-1947) TWÓRCA UNIWERSYTECKIEJ BIOCHEMII MEDYCZNEJ W POZNANIU" [STEFAN TYTUS ZYGMUNT DĄBROWSKI (1877-1947) CREATOR OF BIOCHEMISTRY AT THE POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES] (Online book) (Biography) (in Polish). Poznań, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland: Poznan University of Medical Sciences. p. 33. Retrieved 25 July 2018. Warto wspomnieć, iż rodzina Dąbrowskich posługiwała się herbem szlacheckim Radwan.
  6. ^ Minakowski, Marek Jerzy. "Żądło-Dąbrowski z Dąbrówki h. Radwan". Genealogia Potomków Sejmu Wielkiego. Kraków, POLAND, EU: Dr Minakowski Publikacje Elektroniczne. Archived from the original on 6 September 2019. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
  7. ^ Okolski, Szymon (1641). "RADWAN alias WIRBO". Orbis Polonus (in Latin). Vol. II. Kraków: Franciscus Caesarius. p. 564. Archived from the original on 8 June 2017. LINEA FAMILIAE RADWAN
  8. ^ Okolski, Szymon (1641). "RADWAN alias WIRBOW". Orbis Polonus (in Latin). Vol. II. Kraków: Franciscus Caesarius. p. 572. Archived from the original on 8 June 2017. Dąbrowfcij, cognominati Zedlowie ...
  9. ^ Boniecki (Fredro-Boniecki), herbu Bończa, Adam Józef Feliks [in Polish] (1901). "DĄBROWSCY h. RADWAN z Dąbrówki" (online book). Herbarz Polski - Część I.; Wiadomości Historyczno-Genealogiczne O Rodach Szlacheckich. (Polish Armorial - Part I .; Historical and Genealogical Information About Noble Lineages.) (in Polish). IV.. Warsaw, Warsaw governorate, Vistula land (Russian POLAND), Russian Empire: Gebethner i Wolff: 147. DĄBROWSCY h. RADWAN z Dąbrówki pod Piasecznem, w ziemi warszawskiej, w różnych stronach osiedli, przeważnie w ziemi rożańskiej. Przydomek ich "Żądło". Żyjący w połowie XV-go wieku Jakób z Dąbrówki, ...
  10. ^ a b c Malinowski, Józef (2014). "STEFAN DĄBROWSKI (1877-1947): BIOGRAFIA POLITYCZNA" [STEFAN DĄBROWSKI (1877-1947): POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY] (PDF). repozytorium.amu.edu.pl (in Polish). Poznań, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland: Wydawnictwo Rys. Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 July 2018. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
  11. ^ Lukas, Richard C. (2001). "Chapter IV. Germanization; Part I". Did the Children Cry? Hitler's War against Jewish and Polish Children, 1939-1945. New York: Hippocrene Books. ISBN 978-0781808705. Retrieved 17 August 2018. The same bizarre logic was applied to the Polish intelligentsia, who led the Polish resistance movement. To the Nazis, these leaders were largely Nordic which enabled them 'To be active in contrast to the fatalistic Slavonic elements.' The implication was obvious: If the Polish elite were re-Germanized, then the mass of Polish people would be denied a dynamic leadership class.
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