Jan Zawiejski, born Jan Baptysta Feintuch, (1854–1922) was a Jewish, Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 architect

Architect

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, representative of historism

Historism

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His most notable design works include Juliusz Słowacki Theatre, Ohrenstein House at corner of Stradom and Dietla Street it was build for Moshe Löbel Ohrenstein & his wife Reizel Wald in Kraków

Kraków

Kraków also Krakow, or Cracow , is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life...

 (1889–1893), Stary Dom Zdrojowy in Krynica

Krynica

Krynica-Zdrój is a town in Nowy Sącz County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland in the Beskids mountains, inhabited by over eleven thousand people. It is the biggest spa town in Poland called The Pearl of Polish Spas; a tourist and winter sport centre. It was first recorded in 1547 and became a...

 (1884–1889; with Jan Niedzielski), School of Economics in Kraków (1904–1906) and his own house building, so-called Dom Jasny in Kraków (1909–1910).

Biography

Zawiejski was born on June 20, 1854 in Kraków, Poland. In the years of 1872–1873 he studied in Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

 and 1873–1878 at the polytechnic in Vienna

Vienna

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. In 1900 became a city architect of Kraków.

He died on September 9, 1922 in Kraków. Buried at the Rakowicki Cemetery

Rakowicki Cemetery

Rakowicki Cemetery is one of the best known cemeteries of Poland, located in the centre of Kraków. It lies within the Administrative District No. 1 Stare Miasto meaning "Old Town" – not to be confused with the historic Kraków Old Town further west...

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