Famous People with Name Ludwik

Ludwik Stasiak            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Ludwik Stasiak: was a Polish painter, illustrator, writer, journalist, essayist and publisher.he traveled across Europe and studied fine arts in Vienna (August Eisenmenger) and Munich (A.W. Wagner and Alexander von Liezen-Mayer). His artistic heritage includes historical, religious, and landscape paintings, allegories, portraits, still lifes and dioramas. Ludwik Stasiak was well recognized as a popular magazine illustrator for: “Bluszcz”, “Klosy”, “Biesida Literacka”, “Ziemia”, “Tygodnik Ilustrowany”, “Wedrowiec”, and as an author of popular historical novels and essays. Ludwik Stasiak had also founded and run his own publishing house "Stella". Stasiak along with Wlodzimierz Tetmajer, Wincenty Wodzinowski, Stanislaw Radziejo

Ludwik Lazarz Zamenhof            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Ludwik Lazarz Zamenhof: was an ophthalmologist, philologist, and the inventor of Esperanto, a constructed language designed for international communication.

Ludwik Abramowicz            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Ludwik Abramowicz: was a Polish activist and teacher.he studied at the University of Kiev. In 1918 he was working as a teacher in Lithuanian language teaching gymnasium in Telšiai, (which was establishing independence from the Russian Empire during the time). Later in the interbellum period he became the director of one of the four Polish high schools in interwar Lithuania, (Adam Mickiewicz gymnasium in Kaunas (Polish: Gimnazjum im. Adama Mickiewicza w Kownie). After the Soviet invasion, he was briefly a burmister of Telšiai. From 1945-1947 he worked in a repatriation office in Vilnius, later he moved to Poland (in 1947).

Ludwik Abramowicz-Niepokójczycki            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Ludwik Abramowicz-Niepokójczycki: was a Polish activist, biliophile, publicist and editor. He was one of the major activists of the krajowcy faction, living in Vilnius (Wilno).he studied in Kharkov and Kraków. In 1906 he moved to Vilnius.[1] During World War I, while living in Poland, he actively supported Lithuanian independence.[1] There he was active contributor to Gazeta Wilenska, founded by Michal Römer. Later he was an editor of Polish language newspaper Przeglad Wilenski (Wilno Review, 1912–1913, 1921–1939).[1] The newspaper promoted krajowcy views and developed Lithuanian cultural ideas separate from Polish culture. After Abramowicz returned to Vilnius in 1919, he actively promoted the idea, that Vilnius Region should be transferred to Lithuania without tying Lithuania to union with Poland, although he suggested a cultural autonomy for Poles.[1] The issues of the Przeglad Wilenski newspaper were confiscated many times by local authorities.[1]

Ludwik Zychlinski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Ludwik Zychlinski: was a Polish patriotic activist, pulkownik, diarist. Zychlinski participated in Giuseppe Garibaldi's expedition of Sicily (1860). During the American Civil War, he fought by the Union side (1862-1863). He was a pulkownik at January Uprising (1863-1864).