Jerzy Michałowski

Jerzy Michałowski (* 1909 ; † 1993 ) was a Polish diplomat , writer and translator .

Life

After the Second World War Michałowski took over numerous important diplomatic posts during the time of the People's Republic of Poland and in 1946 he succeeded Henryk Leon Strasburger as ambassador to Great Britain . In 1953 Eugeniusz Milnikiel succeeded him in this post. Between 1956 and 1960 he succeeded Henryk Bierecki as Permanent Representative of Poland to the United Nations in New York City .

He was then replaced by Bohdan Lewandowski and was Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs between 1960 and 1967 and during this time also Chairman of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC) in 1962 , which, in addition to his tasks within the United Nations, was particularly responsible for the activities coordinated by the 19 specialized agencies of the United Nations . His last appointment was in 1967 as ambassador to the USA , where he succeeded Edward Drozniak. In 1972 Witold Trampczynski succeeded him in this office.

After leaving the diplomatic service, Michałowski devoted himself to his work as a translator under the pseudonym Stefan Wilkosz and translated, among other things, Jeffrey Archer's thriller Shall We Tell the President? ("Czy powiemy prezydentowi?"), Frederick Forsyths The Dogs of War ("Psy wojny"), The Jackal ("Dzień Szakala") and James Grady's The Six Days of the Condor ("Sześć dni Kondora") in Polish .

He also published the books Co, jak, dlaczego na świecie (1975) and Wszystko o Afryce (1982).

His wife Mira Michałowska was also a well-known Polish journalist, writer and translator of American literature .

literature

• Meyers Großes Personenlexikon , Mannheim 1968, p. 895.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Polscy ambasadorzy: Przedstawiciele przy Biurze ONZ w Nowym Jorku  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Margaret K. Gnoiska: Poland and Vietnam, 1963: New Evidence on Secret Communist Diplomacy and the "Maneli Affair" (PDF; 2.2 MB). In: COLD WAR INTERNATIONAL HISTORY PROJECT, Working Paper No. 45 , Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
3. ↑ Polscy ambasadorzy: USA ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.