Name Marek Minakowski | Role Author | |
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Parents Jerzy Ryszard Miniakowski, Wieslawa Maria Miniakowska z Kraszewskich | ||
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Marek Jerzy Minakowski (born 13 June 1972 in Olsztyn) – Polish philosopher, historian, genealogist, doctor of humanities and publisher as well as blogger and youtuber. Creator of the Wielka Genealogia Minakowskiego (eng. The Great Genealogy of Minakowski). Co-founder and first marszałek (chairman) of Stowarzyszenie Potomków Sejmu Wielkiego (eng. Society of the Descendants of the Great Sejm).
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Life
Marek Jerzy Minakowski was born 13 June 1972 in Olsztyn (in north-east Poland) in the family of Jerzy Ryszard Minakowski (b. 1942) and Wiesława Maria Kraszewska (1948–2012). He has younger sister Iwona Agnieszka Minakowska-Gruda (b. 1979).
Graduated from the Jagiellonian University with the dissertation Formal Logic before Aristotle which was the result of collecting all traces of the use of formal logic in Greek writing prior to 350 BC (book contains a large catalog of all passages, with original text, translation and logical formalization). Being 26 years old, he was one of the youngest PhDs in Cracow.
Soon before graduation, in 1997, Minakowski accepted an editorial post at OptimusNet (now Onet.pl), where he built the leading Polish financial site, OnetBiznes, which by the end of the year 2000 turned to be a most-read source of financial information in Poland. Later, he switched to search business, as a director of Search at Onet.pl.
With this double background (logical formalization of texts and managing large Internet database systems), Minakowski was able to cope with his idée fixe and started building the genealogical database of the whole Polish historical élites.
For the beginning, Minakowski prepared the densely tagged XML edition of Adam Boniecki's Herbarz Polski (originally 17 volumes or 6500 pages published between 1899 and 1913, with genealogies of about 0.3 million people living since 13th to 20th century). The edition is available on CD-ROM since 2003.
The next stage was building a GEDCOM database of all people related genealogically to the icons of the Golden Age of Polish culture: Jan Kochanowski and Mikołaj Rej. The first edition, published in 2005 under the title Ci wielcy Polacy to nasza rodzina. Not only Minakowski connected about 170,000 individuals to both of them, but also found that every fifth person out of 25,000 described in the Polski Słownik Biograficzny is related to them (with a finite chain of three relations: being son of, being parent of and being spouse of).
Currently Minakowski focuses on building the database of descendants of all members of the Great Sejm. He was the marszałek (chairman) of Stowarzyszenie Potomków Sejmu Wielkiego (the Society of the Descendants of the Great Sejm, SPSW), organization similar to Sons of the American Revolution.
Private life
He is the grandson of prof. Wacław Franciszek Minakowski (1913–1994) and Zofia Barbara Radzicka of the Nałęcz coat of arms (1914–1991), great-great-great-granddaughter of the deputy to the Great Sejm, Józef Radzicki of the Nałęcz coat of arms (c.1736–1793).
On May 28, 1994 in Kraków he married archaeologist and museumist Anna Barbara Lebet (born 1963), with whom he has a daughter, Sara Zofia Lebet-Minakowska (born in 2006).
On May 21, 2006 he set up a Wikipedia account and has been a member of the Wikipedian community, and is still up to date (as of April 2017).