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Wysoczański

Wysoczański plural: Wysoczańscy (with by-names such as “de Weryha”, “Minkowicz” or “Pietrusiewicz”) is the surname of a Polish szlachta (nobility) family, which traces its lineage back to Comes Vane Valachus who was granted land in 1431 by Polish King Ladislaus II. Jagiełło. Hereditary Chevaliers of Galicia (“Ritter”) since 1782.

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Notable family members

  • Łukasz Wysoczański, Polish Parliamentary Commissioner 1633
  • Mikołaj Wysoczański, Sanok Sword-Bearer 1648
  • Wacław Wysoczański, Member of the Polish Parliament
  • Jan Wysoczański, Dobrzyń Sewer
  • Albin Kazimierz Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz, 1st Hereditary Chevalier of Galicia 1782, landowner, Member of the Galician Parliament
  • Basil Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz (1816-1891), 1st Hereditary Chevalier of Galicia, landowner and philanthropist in Odessa about whom a biography was published in 1892 and a novel in 1930
  • Wilhelmine Weryha-Wysoczańska-Pietrusiewicz, only child of Basil, 1st Chevalier de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz, heiress apparent to her father's fortune, died prematurely at age 19 in Cannes in 1884, married to a Swiss rentier
  • Bazyli de Wysoczański, Hereditary Chevalier of Galicia, landowner, married to the heiress of the Laszki Dolne estate
  • Wincenty Wysoczański, Hereditary Chevalier of Galicia, son of a landowner, participant of the January Uprising in 1863
  • Eugeniusz de Minkowicz Wysoczański (1851–1913), 1st Hereditary Chevalier of Galicia, son of a landowner, Mayor, Knight of the Order of Saint Gregory the Great
  • Kazimierz Józef Mieczysław de Minkowicz Wysoczański (1879–1944), 2nd Hereditary Chevalier of Galicia, LL.D., Starosta, Government Commissioner
  • Bronisław Eugeniusz de Minkowicz Wysoczański (born 1881), 3rd Hereditary Chevalier of Galicia, Ph.D., novelist, industrialist, Honorary Consul of the Yugoslavian Kingdom, Commander of the Order of Saint Sava
  • Włodzimierz Wysoczański (1883–1936), Hereditary Chevalier of Galicia, son of a landowner, agronomist, Polish Cavalry Lieutenant of the 8th Uhlan Regiment Prince Józef Poniatowski, Head of Division at the Polish Ministry of Trade and Industry, Curator of State Mining in the Republic of Poland
  • Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz (1897-1959), Hereditary Chevalier of Galicia, Polish Major, intelligence chief in Casablanca of the Polish government-in-exile in London during World War II, deprived of citizenship by the Polish communist government
  • Wiktor Wysoczański (1900–1940), Member of the Polish Parliament, murdered by Russians in the Katyn massacre in 1940
  • Maria de Weryha-Wysoczańska-Pietrusiewicz (1924-2015), member of the Polish underground Home Army in World War II, recipient of the Golden Cross of Merit and the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, daughter of Lt Włodzimierz, 3rd Chevalier de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz
  • Ryszard Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz (born 1941), Hereditary Chevalier of Galicia, Ph.D., Director of the Education and Science, Sport Organization and Tourism Departments at the Ministry of Sport of the Republic of Poland, Director General of the Polish Athletics Federation, Vice-President of the Academic Sports Association of Poland
  • Barbara Weryha-Wysoczańska-Pietrusiewicz (born 1949), Madame, Olympic Bronze Medallist and Vice World Champion in fencing, wife of Chevalier Ryszard Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz, Ph.D.
  • Jan de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz (born 1950), 6th Hereditary Chevalier of Galicia, artist
  • Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz (born 1975), Hereditary Chevalier of Galicia, Ph.D., writer, art historian
  • In Ivan Fylypchak's biographical novel Willpower (Lwów 1930; second edition Sambor 1999) the book depicts the life of Basil, first Chevalier de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz who is going by his real name in the book, although some facts were changed for dramatic reasons.
  • In Józef Dunin Karwicki's Memoirs of a Volyn Man (Lwów 1897) the author makes mention of Basil, first Chevalier de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz.
  • In Konstantin Paustovsky's six part autobiographical novel cycle Story of a Life the first part Distant Years (London 1964) is to a big part made up of the description of his Wysoczański relatives, as for example the three brothers of his mother who all attended the Kiew Cadet Corps and were all inscribed into the Kiew Register of the Nobility. Out of these "Uncle Kolja" was a tsarist Major General who was murdered by the Soviets in 1929. The book includes a description of a ball in a country house as well as going fishing with Uncle Kolja in the dramatic Russian country side.
  • In Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański's memoirs A Chevalier from Poland (Kibworth Beauchamp 2016) the first chapter of the book recalls the history and notable members of the family.
  • In Demeter Więckowski's biography (Lwów 1892) the author describes the life of Basil, first Chevalier de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz and the erection of the church he donated to his village of birth.

    • References

    Wysoczański Wikipedia
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