Children Kinga Duda (b. 1995) | Profession German teacher Name Agata Kornhauser-Duda Siblings Jakub Kornhauser | |
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Born 2 April 1972 (age 52) Krakow, Poland ( 1972-04-02 ) Parents Alicja Wojna-Kornhauser, Julian Kornhauser Grandparents Malgorzata Kornhauser, Jakub Kornhauser Similar People Andrzej Duda, Kinga Duda, Janina Milewska‑Duda | ||
Ksi ka agata kornhauser duda pierwsza dama rzeczpospolitej
Agata Kornhauser-Duda (born 2 April 1972) is the First Lady of Poland, as the wife of current President of Poland, Andrzej Duda.
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- Ksi ka agata kornhauser duda pierwsza dama rzeczpospolitej
- Background and family
- Professional career
- First Lady of Poland
- References
Background and family
She was born in Kraków, the child of Julian Kornhauser, a well-known writer, translator and literary critic who dedicated a book of poetry to her in 1981, and Alicja Wojna, a Polonist. She has one brother, Jakub, a poet and translator. Her paternal grandfather was a Polish Jew.
She has been married to Andrzej Duda since 21 December 1994. Together they have one daughter, Kinga, born in 1995, a law student.
Professional career
She is a German teacher at the Jan III Sobieski High School, Kraków, where she has worked since 1998. She has been described as a demanding but fair and dedicated teacher, and during the presidential campaign only took one day off, vowing to stay with her students until the end of the school year. The school is her husband's alma mater, she herself attended its rival Bartłomiej Nowodworski High School. She wrote her dissertation on the tetralogy of Horst Bienek at the Jagiellonian University, where she and her husband met.
First Lady of Poland
She became the First Lady of Poland on 6 August 2015, when her husband became President. On 24 May 2015, he won the second round of the presidential election, achieving 51.55% of the vote against the 48.45% won by his rival, the incumbent Bronisław Komorowski. During the campaign she supported her husband by appearing in party broadcasts. In terms of her own political beliefs, she has been described as more liberal than Andrzej Duda by her brother.