1. Zygmunt Janiszewski was born to mother Julia Szulc-Chojnicka and father, Czeslaw Janiszewski who was a graduate of the University of Warsaw and served as the director of the Societe du Credit Municipal in Warsaw.
12 Facts About Zygmunt Janiszewski
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Zygmunt Janiszewski then went to Paris and in 1911 received his doctorate in topology under the supervision of Henri Lebesgue.
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Zygmunt Janiszewski's thesis was titled Sur les continus irreductibles entre deux points.
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Zygmunt Janiszewski taught at the University of Lwow and was professor at the University of Warsaw.
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Zygmunt Janiszewski subsequently left the Legions and went into hiding under an assumed identity, Zygmunt Wicherkiewicz, in Boiska, near Zwolen.
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Zygmunt Janiszewski proposed the journal's name in 1919, but the first issue was published only after his death in 1920.
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Zygmunt Janiszewski devoted the family property that he had inherited from his father to charity and education.
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Zygmunt Janiszewski donated all the prize money that he received from mathematical awards and competitions to the education and development of young Polish students.
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Zygmunt Janiszewski was engaged to Janina Kelles-Krauz, daughter of Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz.
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Zygmunt Janiszewski willed his body for medical research, and his cranium for craniological study, desiring to be "useful after his death".
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Samuel Dickstein wrote a commemorative address after Zygmunt Janiszewski's death, honoring his humility, kindness and dedication to his work:.
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Zygmunt Janiszewski is buried in field 58, plot 82 of Lychakiv Cemetery.