Jerzy Józef Potocki
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Noble Family 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...	Potocki
Coat of Arms Polish heraldry Polish heraldry is a branch of heraldry focused on studying the development of coats of arms in the lands of historical Poland , as well as specifically-Polish traits of heraldry. The term is also used to refer to Polish heraldic system, as opposed to systems used elsewhere, notably in Western Europe...	Piława
Parents	Roman Potocki Roman Potocki Count Roman Potocki was a Polish szlachcic.Third Ordynat of Łańcut, Austrian Szambelan.He married Izabella Potocka on November 21, 1882 in Warsaw and Elżbieta Matylda Radziwiłł on June 16, 1885 in Berlin.... Elżbiety Matyldy Radziwiłł
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Date of Birth	January 29, 1889
Place of Birth	Vienna Vienna Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
Date of Death	September 20, 1961
Place of Death	Geneva Geneva Geneva In the national languages of Switzerland the city is known as Genf , Ginevra and Genevra is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie, the French-speaking part of Switzerland...

Count Jerzy Józef Potocki (January 29, 1889 – September 10, 1961) was a Polish

Poland

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 nobleman, captain of the cavalry

Cavalry

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 and diplomat

Diplomat

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. His parents were Roman Potocki

Roman Potocki

Count Roman Potocki was a Polish szlachcic.Third Ordynat of Łańcut, Austrian Szambelan.He married Izabella Potocka on November 21, 1882 in Warsaw and Elżbieta Matylda Radziwiłł on June 16, 1885 in Berlin....

, Third Ordynat of Łańcut, and Elżbiety Matyldy Radziwiłł. He was the grandson of Alfred Józef Potocki

Alfred Józef Potocki

Count Alfred Józef Potocki was a Polish nobleman , landowner, politician, monarchist, liberal-conservatist....

 and great-great-grandson of Jan Potocki

Jan Potocki

Count Jan Nepomucen Potocki was a Polish nobleman, Polish Army Captain of Engineers, ethnologist, Egyptologist, linguist, traveler, adventurer and popular author of the Enlightenment period, whose life and exploits made him a legendary figure in his homeland...

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On January 8, 1919 he joined the Polish Army after the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire

Austria-Hungary

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 and Army

Austro-Hungarian Army

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, was assigned to the General Staff and appointed military attaché

Military attaché

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 in Budapest

Budapest

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Since 1933 in the diplomatic service

Diplomatic service

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, he was appointed ambassador

Ambassador

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 to Italy

Italy

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 but refused to take the commission in protest against the Four-Power Pact

Four-Power Pact

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. From 1933 to 1936 he was ambassador in Ankara

Ankara

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 and from 1936 to 1940 in Washington

Washington, D.C.

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