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Rafal Weryha-Wysoczanski

Chevalier Rafał Hugon Maria de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz, Ph.D. (born May 7, 1975) is a Polish art historian, genealogist and writer, who was a representative of the auction house Sotheby's.

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He is the only child of sculptor Jan, 6th Chevalier de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz, and nephew of Olympic Bronze Medallist and Vice World Champion in fencing Madame Ryszard Weryha-Wysoczańska-Pietrusiewicz.

Biography

Born in Poland, he was educated at the University of Hamburg and on a national merit-based scholarship at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he became a member of the Cambridge University Heraldic and Genealogical Society. He completed his doctorate – for which he was awarded another merit scholarship – under the supervision of Leibniz laureate Professor Martin Warnke. De Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz is a former Delegate to the European Commission of the Nobility in Paris. Reviewers of his book Strategien des Privaten noted that it has a “wise central idea” and that it “gives important food for thought”.

He is a Vice Winner of the President’s Race 2015 on the Cresta Run in St. Moritz having also been a member of the Cambridge University Cresta Team in 1999.

Selected publications

  • A Chevalier from Poland. The Memoirs of Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański, Kibworth Beauchamp 2016, ISBN 978-1-7858-9161-8.
  • Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelige Häuser XXX, vol 145, Limburg an der Lahn 2008 (Contributor), ISBN 978-3-7980-0845-8.
  • Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon XVI, vol 137, Limburg an der Lahn 2005 (Contributor), ISBN 3-7980-0837-X.
  • Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon XVII, Nachträge, vol 144, Limburg an der Lahn 2008 (Contributor), ISBN 978-3-7980-0844-1.
  • Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch, Adelige Häuser IV, vol 8, Marburg (Contributor, forthcoming).
  • Komposition als Kommunikation. Festschrift Professor Peter Petersen, Frankfurt am Main; Berlin; Bern; Bruxelles; New York; Oxford; Wien 2000 (Contributor), ISBN 3-631-36745-7.
  • Strategien des Privaten. Zum Landschaftspark von Humphry Repton und Fürst Pückler, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-86504-056-X.
  • References

    Rafał de Weryha-Wysoczański Wikipedia