ZAMOJSKI, JAN

both: yän zämoiˈskē, 1542–1605, Polish statesman, general, and author. He championed the rights of the lesser nobility; after the extinction (1572) of the Jagiello dynasty, he used his influence to restrict the royal power with constitutional limitations, thus transforming Poland into a royal republic. A humanist, he supported art and learning and founded both the city and the university of Zamość. His De senatu Romano (1563) showed great admiration of ancient Rome, and he sought to apply constitutional principles of republican Rome to the Poland of his time. As a result of his reforms, Poland avoided the trend toward absolutism that characterized the other states of Europe. Always opposing the candidacy and influence of the Hapsburgs, Zamojski secured the election (1573) of Henry of Valois (later Henry III of France) as king of Poland; in 1575 he supported Stephen Bathory, whose chancellor he became in 1576; in 1587 he succeeded in putting Sigismund III on the throne. Appointed (1580) commander in chief, he distinguished himself against Russia, Sweden, the Crimean Tatars, and the hospodar [governor] of Moldavia. During his last years his relations with Sigismund III were strained because of the king's pro-Hapsburg policy.

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People's Poland: Patterns of Social Inequality and Conflict
Book by Wladyslaw Majkowski; Greenwood Press, 1985
Subjects: Poland--Economic Conditions--1981-1990, Social Classes--Poland, Social Conflict--Poland, Working Class--Poland
...Lech. " Kierunki rozwoju spoleczno-gospodarczego Polski 1976- 1980." Czlowiek i Swiatopoglad 3 1976 : 5-20. Zamojski Jan. " Kilka uwag o wydarzeniach poznanskich. " In Wydarzenia Czerwcowe w Poznaniu 1956
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Music in the Renaissance
Book by Gustave Reese; Norton, 1959
Subjects: Music--15th Century--History And Criticism, Music--16th Century--History And Criticism, Renaissance
...743 f Zahp Johannes, 680 Zakythinos, Dennis A., 41 , 49 Zambeccara, La , Merulo, 540 incl. Ex. 125 Zamojski, Chancellor Jan, 751 Zanni, Lassus, 444 Zarlino, Gioseffo Zar : biogr., 323 , 376 f; Z. as theorist, 182 , 329 , 376...
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The Cambridge History of Poland: From the Origins to Sobieski (To 1696)
Book by W. F. Reddaway, J. H. Penson, O. Halecki, R. Dyboski; Cambridge University Press, 1950
Subjects: Poland--History
...She was, however, married to a Piast, the Palatine Jan Zamojski, who for a short time had been considered by John Casimir...possible to annul Maria Kazimieras hateful union with Zamojski. The divorce was delayed, but finally on 5 April
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Encyclopedia of Literature
Book by Joseph T. Shipley; Philosophical Library, 1946
Subjects: Literature--Dictionaries, Indexes, Etc, Literature--History And Criticism
...anarchy. The greatest poet of this period was, however, Jan Kochanowski 1530-84 . Educated largely in Italy, for...Dismissal of the Grecian Envoys 1577 , for the marriage of Jan Zamojski and Krystyna Radziwillowna, composed his Songs on St...
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The War of the Doomed: Jewish Armed Resistance in Poland, 1942-1944
Book by Shmuel Krakowski, Orah Blaustein; Holmes & Meier, 1984
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland, Jews--Persecutions--Poland, Poland--Ethnic Relations, Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945, World War, 1939-1945--Jewish Resistance--Poland
...warszawskie The Warsaw rising Warsaw: a Ksiazka i Wiedza, 1959 , p. 27. 9. Ibid. Also see Tadeusz Rawski, Stapor, Jan Zamojski, Wojna wnjzwolencza Narodu Polskiego w 1939-1945 The independence war of the Polish nation, 1939-1945 Warsaw...
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The French Churches and the Jewish Question: July 1940 -- March 1941
Journal article by Jacques Adler; The Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 46, 2000
Subjects: Catholic Church--Relations with Judaism, France--History, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Religious aspects, Papal documents--Criticism, interpretation, etc., We Remember, a Reflection on the Shoah (Papal document)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., World War, 1939-1945--Religious aspects
...cholera. Vie et attitude des catholiques belges sous loccupation (Brussel: Soma-Ceges, 1999); for France, see Jan Zamojski, "La hierarchie de lEglise Catholique de France, de Belgique et de Hollande pendant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale...


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Zamojski, Jan
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ZAMOJSKI, JAN both: yan zamoi ske, 1542 1605, Polish statesman, general, and author...Europe. Always opposing the candidacy and influence of the Hapsburgs, Zamojski secured the election (1573) of Henry of Valois (later Henry III of...
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Poland
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...conquer Russia. The outstanding figure of their reigns was Jan Zamojski (1542 1605). Sigismund III, a prince of the Swedish...Aleksander Kwasniewski , the SLD candidate. Oleksy resigned in Jan., 1996, after being accused of having spied for Moscow...
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Stephen BÁthory
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the last Jagiello king of Poland. To his brother, Christopher Bathory, he gave Transylvania. With his chancellor, Jan Zamojski , Stephen fought several successful campaigns against Ivan IV of Russia in the lengthy war for the succession to Livonia...
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Sigismund III
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...of King Stephen Bathory was ended by the election of Sigismund as king of Poland, effected through the support of Jan Zamojski , who opposed the candidacy of Maximilian of Austria. In 1592, Sigismund inherited the Swedish throne from his father...
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ZamoŚĆ
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...meat processing and the manufacture of furniture and clothing. Zamosc was founded in 1579 by a Polish chancellor, Jan Zamojski, who also established a college there. The town defended itself against a Cossack invasion in 1648 and against the...


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