Famous People with Name Jozef

Jozef Tiso            Origin/Culture/Country: Czech

Jozef Tiso: was a Slovak politician of the SPP, who became the fascist leader of the WWII Slovak Republic a satellite state of Nazi Germany existing between 1939-1945. After the end of World War II, Tiso was convicted and hanged as a war criminal.

Józef Kazimierz Hofmann            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Józef Kazimierz Hofmann: was a Polish-American virtuoso pianist and composer. Many connoisseurs consider him one of the greatest pianists of all time.Józef Hofmann was born in Podgórze, near Krakau (Kraków), Austria-Hungary (now Poland) in 1876. His father was the composer, conductor, and pianist Kazimierz Hofmann, and his mother was the singer Matylda Pindelska. He was a child prodigy who played a long series of sensationally received concerts throughout Europe and Scandinavia at the age of ten, culminating with a series of concerts in America in late 1887 and early 1888 at which he became a media celebrity.

Jozef Kapustka            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Jozef Kapustka: a Polish concert pianist, born in 1969 in Tarnów, Poland. Lives in Paris, France.Jozef Kapustka was born in 1969 in Tarnów, Poland where he began receiving his precociously early musical tuition from the local instructor Danuta Cieslik at the age of 3. He then briefly studied at the State Higher Academy of Music in Kraków with Ewa Bukojemska, but it was not until he moved to the West that he accomplished a fairly unique scholarly pedigree. Having graduated with a straight A record from The Juilliard School in New York ( Bachelor's of Music degree 1992) where he studied piano with Josef Raieff, whose teaching descended directly from this of Franz Liszt; then Jerome Lowenthal and chamber music with Joseph Fuchs

Jozef Klaassen            Origin/Culture/Country: Netherlands

Jozef Klaassen: is a rower from the Netherlands.Klaassen qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing with the Dutch eights forming a team with Olaf van Andel, Rogier Blink, Meindert Klem, David Kuiper, Diederik Simon, Olivier Siegelaar, Mitchel Steenman and cox Pet

Józef Szanajca            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Józef Szanajca: was a Polish architect.Founder and member of PRAESENS group: "The Praesens group played a pioneering role in the development of modern architecture in Poland. From 1927 a link with Le Corbusier was established. Its members participated in all the main meetings".[1]Józef Szanajca is one of the most eminent representatives of the Polish modern architecture, the holder of Malevich's and Bauhaus' ideas. Friend and partner to Bogdan Lachert. They won together the Grand Prix of Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (1937) for the Polish pavilion.