Count Andrew Ciechanowiecki, PhD, FSA's Biography

Count Andrew Ciechanowiecki, PhD, FSA's Professional Career

Career

anti-Nazi resistance in Poland 1941-45 (Lt Home Army, Polish war decorations); cnsllr Polish FO in Govt of National Unity and chef de protocole Miny of Foreign Trade 1945-46; political prisoner 1950-56; former lectr Jagiellonian Univ Kraków, sometime museum curator in Poland; md: Mallett at Bourdon House (London) 1961-65, Heim Gallery (London) Ltd 1965-86, Old Masters Gallery (London) Ltd 1986-93; fndr Ciechanowiecki Family Fndn Royal Castle Warsaw 1986; sometime memb Presidential Advsy Bd for Culture in Poland, tstee various Polish charities in Poland and elsewhere abroad; memb and hon memb numerous learned Polish and foreign bodies; hon prof Acad of Fine Arts Warsaw; Hon PhD: Univ of Warsaw, Univ of Cracow, Univ of Minsk, Univ of New Mexico; memb Polish Acad of Sciences; FSA; Knight Order of the White Eagle (Poland), Knight Grand Cross Order of Polonia Restituta, Knight Grand Cross Order of St Gregory the Great (Holy See), Knight Cdr Order of Merit (Italy), Cdr Grosses Silbernes Ehrenzeichen (Austria), Cdr Order of Merit (Senegal), Cdr Order of the Polar Star (Sweden), Bundesverdienstkreuz First Class (Germany), Officier Légion d'Honneur (France), Order of Friendship of Nations (Belarus), Order of F Skaryna (Belarus), Bailiff, Knight Grand Cross of Honour and Devotion and Knight Grand Cross of Merit SMOM, sometime chm of fndn Polish Assoc of SMOM in Britain, Knight Order of St Januarius, Bailiff Grand Cross of Justice Constantinian Order of St George (decorated with the Collar), Knight Grand Cross Order of Francis I (Royal House of Naples), Knight Order of St Stephen, Knight Grand Cross Order of St Joseph (Tuscany), Knight Grand Cross Orders of SS Andrew, Alexander and Anne of Russia (dynastic), Knight Grand Cross Order of SS Mauritius and Lazarus, Knight Grand Cross Order of Civil Merit of Savoy, Offr of the Doorward Guard of the Lord High Constable of Scotland, Gold Distinction Gloria Artis (Poland), Bene Merito (Poland), Commandeur Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France); Merentibus Medal Jagiellonian Univ Kraków, hon citizen towns of Ciechanowiec and Zaslaw

Count Andrew Ciechanowiecki, PhD, FSA's Publications

Books and Publications

author of several books and numerous articles in the field of art and history of culture

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