Adam Zamoyski

Adam Zamoyski (2009)

Adam Stefan Zamoyski (born January 11, 1949 in New York ) is an American-Polish writer and historian .

Life

Adam Zamoyski comes from the Polish noble family Zamoyski and bears the title of Count . His parents fled Poland in 1939. He was born in New York and grew up in England. He received his education at Downside School and Queen's College (Oxford) , where he studied modern languages ​​and history. In addition to English, he speaks Polish, Russian, Italian and French.

Zamoyski visited Poland as early as the 1960s and published a number of books on the history of Poland . In addition to the history of Napoleon's Russian campaign in 1812 , he also wrote a history of Poland, about the Battle of Warsaw in 1920, the Congress of Vienna , a cultural history of the time from the American Revolution in 1776 to the Paris Commune in 1871, including the romantic movement and the emergence of nation states, a biography of last Polish King Stanislaus II August Poniatowski , a biography of Chopin and about the Polish Air Force in World War II ( The Forgotten Few ).

From 2008 to 2011 he was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Princes Czartoryski Foundation and he is a consultant at the Czartoryski Museum in Kraków .

Zamoyski is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London , the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts .

Adam Zamoyski is married to the painter Emma Sergeant and lives in London.

Fonts (selection)

• Napoleon. One life. German by Ruth Keen and Erhard Stölting. CH Beck, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-406-72496-1 .
• Phantom Terror: The Threat of Revolution and the Repression of Liberty 1789-1848 . London: William Collins, 2014
  • Phantoms of Terror. The fear of the revolution and the suppression of freedom 1789–1848 . Translation Andreas Nohl. Beck, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-406-69766-1 .
• Chopin, Prince of the Romantics. Harper Press, London 2010, ISBN 978-0-00-734184-9 .
  • Translation: Chopin: The poet at the piano. German by Nathalie Lemmens. Edition Elke Heidenreich at Bertelsmann, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-570-58015-8 .
• Poland: a history , Harper Press 2009, Hippocrene Books 2012
• Warsaw 1920: Lenin's failed conquest of Europe , Harper Press 2008
• Rites of Peace. The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna , Harper Collins 2007
  • Translation: 1815: Napoleon's fall and the Congress of Vienna. German by Ruth Keen and Erhard Stölting. Beck, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-67123-4 .
• 1812: Napoleon's fatal march on Moscow. Harper Collins, London 2004, ISBN 0-00-712375-2 .
  • Translation: 1812: Napoleon's campaign in Russia. German by Ruth Keen and Erhard Stölting . Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-63170-2 .
• The forgotten few , New York: Hippocrene 1996, Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Aviation 2004
• Holy Madness. Romantics, Patriots and Revolutionaries 1776-1871 , Weidenfeld and Nicholson 1999
• The noble house of Starzeński , London: Azimuth Editions 1997
• The Last King of Poland , London: Jonathan Cape 1992
• The Polish Way: a thousand-year history of the Poles and their culture , New York: F. Watts, 1987
• Paderewski , New York: Atheneum 1982
• The Battle for the Marchlands , Boulder: East European Monographs / Columbia University Press, 1981 (on the war between Russia and Poland from 1919 to 1920).

Web links

• Adam Zamoyski's website
• Telegraph overview of Adam Zamoyski's Poland
• Spectator Adam Zamoyski Article

Individual evidence

1. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility . Vol. 35, p. 413.
2. ↑ Cover text for 1812 , CH Beck