Writer/journalist Famous Names Starting with Letter I

Was a German teacher of music. A native of Mewe, he attended the Leipzig Conservatory before moving

Was a German teacher of music. A native of Mewe, he attended the Leipzig Conservatory before moving to what is now Ukraine, where he spent several years teaching composition. In 1883 he settled in Frankfurt, where he joined the faculty of the Hoch Conservatory; in 1908 he became director of the school. As a teacher he exerted great influence; among his pupils were Bernhard Sekles, Ernest Bloch, Vladimir Sokalskyi, Ernst Toch, Hans Pfitzner, and Cyril Scott. Knorr died in Frankfurt.

Was a Polish noble lady, writer, art collector, and founder of the first Polish museum, the Czartory

Was a Polish noble lady, writer, art collector, and founder of the first Polish museum, the Czartoryski Museum in Kraków.In 1796 Izabela ordered the rebuilding of the ruined palace at Pulawy and began a museum. Among the first objects to be included were Turkish trophies that had been seized by Polish King Jan III Sobieski's forces at the 1683 Battle of Vienna. Also included were Polish royal treasures and historic Polish family heirlooms.

Is a Polish writer, an essayist, a columnist, and a scholar.She arrived to the United States as a po

Is a Polish writer, an essayist, a columnist, and a scholar.She arrived to the United States as a political refugee in the eighties. [1] She returned to Poland in to partake of the post-communist literary revolution and become a feminist icon in the nineties. [2] She taught creative writing, and authored several books in fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. She wrote an introduction to the first translation of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. [3]

Was a Polish journalist writing for Dziennik Baltycki (The Baltic Daily), Kashubia and Pomerania. Sh

Was a Polish journalist writing for Dziennik Baltycki (The Baltic Daily), Kashubia and Pomerania. She was also a translator of Kashubian texts into Polish. She was the president of Kashubian-Pomeranian Association in the years 1980-1983.