Adam Zamoyski
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Count Adam Stefan Zamoyski (born 11 January 1949) is a historian
and a member of the ancient Zamoyski
family of Polish nobility
.
and The Queen's College, Oxford
. He is a freelance historian and author of over a dozen books, including a history of Poland and an account of Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812. He was Chairman of the Management Board of the Princes Czartoryski Foundation from 2008 but was voted out by the Full Foundation's Council on 12 July 2011 and he has nothing more to do with the Foundation. On 16 June 2001 he married the artist Emma Sergeant.
Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
and a member of the ancient Zamoyski
Zamoyski
Zamojski, plural: Zamojscy is the surname of an important Polish nobility family of Jelita coat of arms. The name is sometimes spelled Zamoyski. It is the Polish for "de Zamość" - the name they originally wore as lords of the place...
family of Polish nobility
Szlachta
The szlachta was a legally privileged noble class with origins in the Kingdom of Poland. It gained considerable institutional privileges during the 1333-1370 reign of Casimir the Great. In 1413, following a series of tentative personal unions between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of...
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Life
Zamoyski was born in New York City, but was raised in England and was educated at Downside SchoolDownside School
Downside School is a co-educational Catholic independent school for children aged 11 to 18, located in Stratton-on-the-Fosse, between Norton Radstock and Shepton Mallet in Somerset, south west England. It is attached to Downside Abbey...
and The Queen's College, Oxford
The Queen's College, Oxford
The Queen's College, founded 1341, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Queen's is centrally situated on the High Street, and is renowned for its 18th-century architecture...
. He is a freelance historian and author of over a dozen books, including a history of Poland and an account of Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812. He was Chairman of the Management Board of the Princes Czartoryski Foundation from 2008 but was voted out by the Full Foundation's Council on 12 July 2011 and he has nothing more to do with the Foundation. On 16 June 2001 he married the artist Emma Sergeant.