Rafał de Weryha-Wysoczański

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Chevalier Rafał Hugon Maria de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz[1][2][3][4][5][6] (born May 7, 1975) is a Polish art historian, genealogist and writer,[2][7] who was a representative of the auction house Sotheby's.[8]

Per the "Genealogy of the de Weryha-Wysoczański Family" pedigree he produced for the Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels in 2008,[9] he is the only child of sculptor Jan, 6th Chevalier de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz,[2] and nephew of Olympic Bronze Medallist and Vice World Champion in fencing Madame Ryszard Weryha-Wysoczańska-Pietrusiewicz and millionaire landowner and philanthropist Basil, 1st Chevalier de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz.[2][10]

Biography

Born in

Martin Warnke.[7] De Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz is a former Delegate to the European Commission of the Nobility in Paris.[7] Per reviews listed on his own website, reviewers of his book Strategien des Privaten noted that it has a “wise central idea” and that it “gives important food for thought”.[15] In 2016 he published a memoir entitled A Chevalier from Poland.[16]

Thanks to a generous handicap, he came second in the President's Race 2015 on the

Cambridge University Cresta Team in 1999.[7]

Selected publications

References

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  2. ^ Listed with title of nobility in Deutsches Adelsblatt, Personelle Besetzung der Organisationen des Adels, No. 2, February 15, 2003, p. 41
  3. ^ Magdalene College Magazine, 2006-2007, p. 62
  4. ^ List of members, StMTC, Annual Report, 2007-2008, p. 336
  5. ^ a b Hamburger Abendblatt, Stipendium für Cambridge Universität, July 14, 1998, p. 2
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  7. ^ Magdalene College Magazine, 2005-2006, p. 48
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  9. ^ Hamburger Abendblatt, Rodeln in St. Moritz, January 25, 2000, p. 10
  10. ^ Called in Reflections of a Young Fogey "British academia’s finest collection of correct form adherents"
  11. ^ Whilst at Cambridge University he became inter alia also a member of the Wine and Food Society, a student dining society, named by Hugh Johnson in CAM, no 47, Lent Term 2006, p. 45, in reminiscences of the 1950s "a surprisingly serious coterie of moneyed young men"
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  13. ^ Webpage of the book Strategien des Privaten. Zum Landschaftspark von Humphry Repton und Fürst Pückler
  14. ^ A Chevalier from Poland at the De Weryha Collection
  15. ^ StMTC Results of the President's Race 2015