Wierzbicki
Wierzbicki is the name of Polish nobility - and Uradelsgeschlechter (from Pol. Wierzba , " willow tree " in German as "in / from the Willows"). It was first documented in 931 . Today there are around 10,000 people with this name in Poland. Wiersbitzky is also a variant of the writing .
history
The family spread from Pomerania, later West Prussia, across Poland, with branches in Lithuania, Russia and Volhynia. There were marriage ties to well-known Polish families, such as B. Prince Czetwertyński and Radziwiłł , Count Konpopacki, Działyński , Małachowski , Mielżyński , Potocki , Raczyński , Rzewuski and Zamoyski .
In over 1000 years it produced four voivods , six castellans (Polish burgraves), four bishops and five Polish generals, as well as 15 Prussian generals. Three members wore the Order of the White Eagle, the highest honor in Poland. Three members carried awards for Knight of the Order Pour le Mérite (1740–1807): Friedrich Gottlob Karl Ludw. v. Corvin-Wiersbitzki (1787), Aug. Ferd. v. Corvin-Wiersbitzki (1793), Heinr. Friedrich Ernst v. Corvin-Wiersbitzki (1794),
The name Wierzbicki was spelled differently in different languages and times, including Wiersbitzki, Wiersbitzky, Wirsbitzke, Вержбицький (Verzhbitsky).
Well-known namesake
- Wacław Wierzbicki (died 1555) herbu Radwan, Bishop of Samogitia (1534–1555)
- Wiktoryn Wierzbicki (died 1588) Herbu Radwan, Bishop of Zmudz and Lutsk (1565–1567), first spiritual senator in the Senate of the Republic.
- Georg Ludwig von Wiersbitzki (1717–1778), royal Prussian major general
- Heinrich Friedrich Ernst von Corvin-Wiersbitzki (1768–1823), royal Prussian major general
- Otto von Corvin-Wiersbitzki , writer and journalist, author of the Pfaffenspiegel
- Ludwik Wierzbicki herbu Ślepowron (1834–1912), Director of the State Railways in Lviv, Assistant Professor at the Technical University of Lvov, Member of Parliament, City Councilor of Lviv
- Alicia Fulford-Wierzbicki, actress
- Anna Wierzbicka (* 1938 in Poland ), linguist
- Gottlob Karl Ludwig von Corvin-Wiersbitzki (1756–1817), Prussian major general and commander in Hussar Regiment No. 6
- Ludwig von Corvin-Wiersbitzky (1789–1872), Prussian lieutenant general
- Peter Wierzbicki (1794–1847), surgeon and botanist from Oravița in the Banat
- Felix Paul Wierzbicki , (1815–1860) Polish-American writer, author of the first description of California in English
- Andrzej Wierzbicki (1877–1961) Polish Minister of Trade and Industry
- Jan Wierzbicki (1888–1946) Polish lawyer and activist in the Polish community in Latvia, Member of Parliament (1922–1934), Deputy Minister for Internal Affairs of the Republic of Latvia
- Witold Wierzbicki (1890–1965), Polish civil engineer
- Eugeniusz Wierzbicki (1909–1991), Polish architect
- Zbigniew Tadeusz Wierzbicki (* 1919 in Warsaw) Polish sociologist
- Piotr Wierzbicki (* 1935 in Warsaw) Polish journalist, writer and music critic
- Zbigniew Wierzbicki (* 1937 in Vilnius) Polish architect and lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk
- Janusz Wierzbicki (* 1947 in the Jabłonna Lack community) Polish politician and member of the second Sejm
- Leonard Wierzbicki President of Graudenz (1945), Danzig (1945–46) and Sopot (1946–1948)
- Robert Jaroslaw Wierzbicki, professor at Mittweida University
- Alfred Marek Wierzbicki (* 1957), Polish philosopher
- Elisabeth Wierzbicka Wela (* 1964 in Kraków ), painter and sculptor
- Andrzej Wierzbicki Dean (1975–1978) of the Department of Electronics and Information Technology at Warsaw University of Technology
- Marek Wierzbicki (* 1965 in Bukowno) is a Polish footballer and coach
- Marcin Wierzbicki (* 1969), Polish composer and music teacher
- Maciej Wierzbicki (* 1971 in Warsaw) is a Polish film and television actor.
- Łukasz Wierzbicki (* 1974 in Posznan) is a Polish writer
- Krzysztof Wierzbicki is a Polish director and actor
- Adrian Peter Wierzbicki (* 1988), German stand-up comedian and author
The coat of arms communities of the various families with their names
(Polish: Herb szlachecki ) There are several noble families with this family name, without consanguinity, used different coats of arms:
- Wierzbicki with Gryf coat of arms
- Wierzbicki with coat of arms Jastrzębiec
- Wierzbicki with Lubicz coat of arms
- Wierzbicki with Nieczuja coat of arms
- Wierzbicki with Ślepowron coat of arms
- Wierzbicki with Korwin's coat of arms
- Wierzbicki with the Nałęcz coat of arms
- Wierzbicki with Radwan coat of arms
- Wierzbicki with Leliwa coat of arms
- Wierzbicki with the Grzymała coat of arms
- Wierzbicki with the Dołęga coat of arms
- Wierzbicki with the Ogończyk coat of arms
- Wierzbicki with the Prus coat of arms
literature
- Juliusz hrabia Ostrowski: Księga herbowa rodów polskich ( Book of arms of the Polish families). Warsaw 1897
- Adam Boniecki : Herbarz polski . Warsaw 1903, publisher: Gebethner and Wolff
- Seweryn Uruski , Adam Kosinski u. Aleksander Wlodarski: Rodzina, Herbarz szlachty polskiej . Warsaw 1907, publisher: Gebethner and Wolff.
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke (Ed.), New general German nobility lexicon . Leipzig 1859-1870
- K. Lodz-Czarnecki: Herbarz polski . Gneisen (today: Gniezno) 1873 (Polish coat of arms)
- IA Tyroff: Book of Arms of the Prussian Monarchy . Nuremberg 1828
- Polska enzyklopedja slachecka (Polish Nobility Encyclopedia), Warsaw 1938
- Bartosz Paprocki : Herby rycerstwa polskiego , wyd. 1584, wzn. 1858 (coat of arms of Polish chivalry, publisher 1584 and 1858)
- Emilian von Źernicki-Szeliga : The Polish aristocracy and the foreign aristocratic families who joined the same; General directory , published by Henri Strand, Hamburg 1900
- Adam Boniecki , Artur Reiski : Herbarz Polski , Część I: Wiadomości historyczno-genealogiczne o rodach szlacheckich, t. I-XVII (reprint) Warsaw 1899–1913 Gebethner i Wolff
- Herbarz polski, to iest O przyrodzeniv zioł y drzew rozmaitych, y innych rzeczy do lekarztw nalezących. Księgi dwoie ... Marcin z Urzędowa Drukarnia Łazarzowa; Krakow 1595
- Genealogical manual of the nobility
- Peter Frank-Döfering: “Adelslexikon des Österreichischen Kaisertums 1804–1918” - directory of acts of grace, status surveys, nobility recognitions and confirmations available in the Austrian State Archives in Vienna, Herder, Vienna 1989; Name indexes 1804–1822
- Michael Schaller: “Schematism for the K. u. K. Heer and for the Kriegsmarine for 1918 ”, index of names of the noble persons named therein, AustroArchiv.com 2008.
- Georg Freiherr von Frölichsthal: "The nobility of the Habsburg monarchy in the 19th and 20th centuries", index to his genealogies, Degener-Verlag, 2008, 362 p. Name index (Wienecke - Wittorf).
See also
Web links
- Entry about Corvin-Wierzbicki in New General German Nobility Lexicon
- Entry about Wiersbitzki in New Prussian Nobility Lexicon
- Entry about Corvin-Wierzbicki in Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: The coats of arms of the German baronial and noble families. Leipzig 1855.