Jakub Szynkiewicz
Jakub Szynkiewicz ( German: Jakob Schinkewitsch ) (born April 16, 1884 in Lyachawitschy , then Russian Empire ; † November 1, 1966 in Waterbury , Connecticut ) was the first Grand Mufti of independent Poland .
Jakub Szynkiewicz was born in Ljachawitschy ( Polish: Lachowicze ), in what is now Belarus , in 1884 . He came from a Muslim family of Lipka Tatars and was born to Suleyman and Fatma.
In 1904 he finished his education at the secondary school in Minsk and then studied engineering at the Technical University and from 1912 oriental studies at the University of Saint Petersburg , for which he had to take a supplementary examination in Latin beforehand.
After the end of the war he moved to Berlin in 1919 where he continued his studies. In the summer semester of 1924 he was in London to copy the Rabghuzi manuscript for his doctoral thesis in the British Museum. In 1925 he was supported by the University of Berlin with a German dissertation doctorate . On October 28 of the same year he was elected the first Grand Mufti of Polish Muslims in Wilno .
He then translated parts of the Koran from Arabic into Polish, and in 1935 his book Wersety z Koranu ( Verses from the Koran ) was published. During his time as Grand Mufti, Szynkiewicz was able to establish contacts with Muslim communities around the world. In 1936 he was awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta for his work in the Islamic community of Poland .
His goal of building a mosque for the then Muslim community in Warsaw could no longer be realized after the German invasion of Poland in 1939. In Poland , occupied by the National Socialists , Szynkiewicz initially collaborated with the Germans and was named "Mufti of the East". In 1944 he left Poland. After the war, he finally settled in Egypt and never returned to what was now communist Poland. After Nasser came to power , he moved to the United States , where he eventually died.
Individual evidence
- ^ Stefan Gąsiorowski: Szynkiewicz Jakub . In: Polski Słownik Biograficzny . Vol. 50 (2015), p. 321.
- ↑ Schinkewitsch, Jakob: Rabghuzis Syntax . In: Messages d. Sem. F. Orient. Languages to Berlin, Dept. II <West Asian. Studies>. Vol. 29 Berlin, Phil. Diss. V. June 10, 1926. Berlin, Reichsdruckerei, 1926
- ↑ http://isap.sejm.gov.pl/DetailsServlet?id=WMP19360970179
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Szynkiewicz, Jakub |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schinkewitsch, Jakob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | first Grand Mufti of independent Poland |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 16, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lyachavichy |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 1, 1966 |
| Place of death | Waterbury |