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Stanisław Leopold Janikowski (February 17, 1891 - September 23, 1965) was a Polish diplomat and an Etruscologist.
BiographyStanisław Leopold Janikowski was born on February 17, 1891 in Piotrków, southern Poland, son of Leopold and Zofia (née Krajcewicz). He spent most of his married life in Rome, Italy, until returning to Poland in 1965. On September 23, 1965 he died aged 77 in his parents' home in Zielonka, near Warsaw and is buried in Warsaw. Early lifeFrom his school years Stanisław was involved in the underground fighting against the Tsar. His code name in these secret activities was Wampir (English:Vampire). He joined the Revolution with the school strike of 1905 against Russification [1]. He belonged to the Polskie Drużyny Strzeleckie (English:Polish Rifle Squads, a Polish pro-independence paramilitary organization tolerated by the Austrian government in Krakow) [2] and the Sokół (Polish:Polskie Towarzystwo Gimnastyczne "Sokół", English: Polish Gymnastic Society "Falcon"). Poor Health and the outbreak of World War I meant that he was unable to complete his studies at the Jagiellonian University. Since he could not be accepted by the regular army, during the World War, he was active in the secret Wolnej Szkole Wojskowej (English: Free Cadet School) in Warsaw [3]. From 1914 he was a member of the clandestine Central Committee of ‘ZET’ the Association of the Polish Youth (Polish: Związek Młodzieży Polskiej) [4] and from 1915 in the secret Polska Organizacja Wojskowa (POW -English: Polish Military Organization). From 1918, with former members of ZET who also could no longer be considered to be “youth”, he was a committee member of Związku Patriotycznym (English: Patriotic League) [5] and then with the Związek Naprawy Rzeczpospolitej (English: Union for Improvement of the Republic) [6]. Diplomatic careerS.L. Janikowski joined the Polish diplomatic service on November 15, 1918. In1920 he was a member of the Polish delegation to Minsk [7]. In 1921 he took part, as a member of the Polish delegation, in the Peace of Riga negotiations[8]. He then stayed on in Lithuania, leading delicate negotiations to create a majority in the Sejm in Vilnius, supporting policies of the speaker Józef Piłsudski. After returning to Warsaw he worked for a short time in the Eastern Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland. In1927 he took office as Counsellor in the Embassy of the Second Polish Republicto the Holy See. After the death of Ambassador Władysław Skrzyński in 1937, Janikowski performed his duties, as charge d'affaires, at the Holy See, until the 1939arrival of the new Ambassador Kazimierz Papée [9]. World War IIOn the outbreak of World War II and the internment of the Polish authorities, Janikowski was designated to prime position by the nominated President of theSecond Polish Republic General Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski. From 1944 until July 7, 1945 he acted as director [10] of the Embassy of theSecond Polish Republic to the Quirinale [11] with the title of Minister Plenipotentiary [12]. He continued to co-operate with Kazimierz Papée, though he was not formally mentioned in the Annuario Pontificio. Post WarFrom January to May 1954 he stayed in London, where he held the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Polish Government in Exile [13] of Jerzy Hryniewski. On his return to Rome, Janikowski took up radio broadcasting. In1965 he returned to Poland with his wife and settled in Zielonka, (in the road named after his father, the explorer Leopold Janikowski), [14], near Warsaw, where he died a few months later on September 23, 1965. His was buried onSeptember 27, 1965 - Melchior Wańkowicz gave a funeral oration - in the family grave in Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw. FamilyStanisław Janikowski was the only child of Leopold (born 1855 - died December 8th, 1942) and Zofia Krajcewicz (born 'unknown' - died April 26th, 1963). Leopold Janikowski was a Meteorologist by training, becoming an Ethnographer and travelling to the Camerouns in West Africa on two voyages in the 1880s. Stanisław met his future wife Halina Prewysz-Kwinto during his stay in Wilno, and they later married in 1925. She was born on September 23rd, 1898 at Lipniszki, in Lithuania. They had three children. Their daughter was Hanna Maria, born July 21st, 1926 in Warsaw, who married Edward Szczepanik in Rome on June 29th, 1946. She had 4 children and lived in London, Hong Kong, Rome and latterly Lewes, East Sussex, England. She died on December 23rd, 1995. Their first son Stanisław Maria was born in Rome on November 28th, 1927. After the war he settled in England, where he still lives, in Felixstowe, and married Bridget Harkin, from Ireland, having a daughter. The last son, Wojciech Ignacjy Maria, was born July 31st, 1935 in Wilno, Lithuania. He has spent all his life in Rome, Italy, with two sons. Halina died in Zielonka, Warsaw, on December 18th, 1981, 16 years after her husband Stanisław Leopold Janikowski. ReferencesFootnotes
Bibliography Polish: Czy wiesz kto to jest? ["Who's Who"] (Warsaw 1938) Polish: publication by the Association of Poles in Italy (Italian: Associazione dei Polacchi in Italia / Polish: Związek Polaków we Włoszech) of a collection of articles covering "Political, public and cultural activity of Poles in Rome in the 20th century" Pro publico bono : Polityczna, społeczna i kulturalna działalność Polaków w Rzymie w XX wieku red. Ewa Prządka. - Rzym : Fundacja Rzymska im. J. S. Umiastowskiej, 2006. - 478 s., 77 fot. (Polonica włoskie ; 5. Świadectwa 4) Related Websites:
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