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Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The university was founded on 20 January 1661, when King John II Casimir in Polish Jan II Kazimierz Waza of Poland granted a charter to the city's Jesuit Collegium, founded in 1608, giving it "the honor of an academy and the title of a university". In 1589, the Jesuits had tried to found a university earlier ...
Away colours. LKS Pogoń Lwów is a former Polish professional sports club which was located in Lwów, Lwów Voivodeship (now Lviv in Ukraine ), and existed from 1904 until the outbreak of World War II in 1939. It was the second oldest Polish football club behind other teams from Lwów – Czarni and Lechia. With numerous departments, among ...
John Richard Clark Hall (1855–1931) was a British scholar of Old English, and a barrister. Hall's A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (pictured) became a widely used work upon its 1894 publication, and after multiple revisions remains in print. His 1901 prose translation of Beowulf was still the canonical introduction to the poem into the 1960s ...
Lechia Lwów. Lechia Lwów (full name: Lwowski Klub Sportowy "Lechia" Lwów) was the first Polish professional association football club, founded in summer 1903 [1] in Lwów by students of the 3rd and 4th gymnasiums as well as former members of the Sokół football department. During the Second Republic of Poland the club was one of four teams ...
Lwów was the city with most radio owners in Poland, in mid-1939 there were around 45,000 radios, owned by its inhabitants. In the summer of 1938, construction of new office began, it was planned to be completed in mid-1940. Following the outbreak of the World War II, the campus of the radio was bombed by the Luftwaffe on September 16, 1939 [4 ...
The Lwów–Warsaw school of logic lay at the origin of Polish logic and was closely associated with or was part of the Warsaw School of Mathematics. According to Jan Woleński, a decisive factor in the school's development was the view that the future of the Polish school of mathematics depended on the research connected with the new branches ...
1939. League. Polish Football League 1927–1928. Hasmonea Lwów was a Polish - Jewish sports club based in the city of Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine ). Created in 1908 in Austria-Hungary, it was the first sports club exclusively for Jewish members. It was named after the Hasmonean royal dynasty. The full Polish name was Żydowski Klub Sportowy ...
