Index of Names Abakanowicz (Abdank-Abakanowicz), Althoff, Friedrich, high-ranking Prussian Bruno, Lithuanian-born Polish official, 59 mathematician and engineer, 157 Ambronn, Leopold P., Göttingen professor of Abraham, Max, German physicist, 60 astronomy, 62 Abrahamowicz, Dawid, Polish-Jewish Galician Ampère, André-Marie, French physicist and politician, 112 mathematician, 103 Abramowicz, Kazimierz, Polish Anders, Władysław, Polish general, 412 mathematician, 392 Andrzejewski, Jerzy, Polish writer, 374 Achender, Mrs., a friend of the Steinhauses, Andrzejewskis, the family of Jerzy, 378 372 Antecka, maiden name of Henryk Adamski, Jan, a friend of the author, brother of Kołodziejski’s wife, 64 Stanisław, 120, 145, 179, 183, 266, Antoniewicz, a Judge in Lwów, 136 312, 325, 337, 375 Apfel, a Jasło merchant, 27 Adamski, Stanisław, a schoolfriend of the Appel, Ewa, author of textbooks, 348 author, 33, 34, 40, 47, 263, 415 Aranda Arellano, Angela, a Mexican singer, Afanaseva, Tatyana Alekseevna, Russian wife of Adam Didur, 187 mathematician, wife of Ehrenfest, Archimedes of Syracuse, illustrious physicist 80 and mathematician of ancient Ajdukiewicz, Kazimierz, Polish philosopher Greece, 345 and logician, 135 Arciszewski, Tomasz, Polish socialist Albano, an Italian lecturer in Göttingen, 72 politician, 382, 391 Albert, Zygmunt, 292 Arco, Georg Wilhelm Graf von, German Aleksandrov, Pavel Sergeevich, Soviet physicist, 82 mathematician, 250 Aristotle, Greek philosopher, 203 Aleksandrowicz, Halina, a Lwów acquaintance, Artin, Emil, Austrian-American 265 mathematician, 137 Aleksandrowicz, owner of a paper Askenase (Askenazy), Stefan, Polish-Belgian manufactory, 390, 423 pianist, 180 Aleksandrowicz, Roman, a Lwów Askenazy, Frau, mother of the pianist Stefan acquaintance, 288 Askenazy, and of Olga (Ziemilska) Aletti, an Italian hotelier, 150 and Tusia (Baderowa), 113 Altenberg, Alfred, a Lwów publisher, 141 Ataulf, king of the Goths, 156 Altenberg, Ewa, a Polish microbiologist, 218 Attlee, Clement Richard, 1st Earl, British Altenberg, Peter, Austrian writer and poet, 67 politician, 278, 440 Alter, a clerk with the Philips Company, 280 Auber brothers, bandleaders in Iwonicz, 13 © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 467 H. Steinhaus, Mathematician for All Seasons, Vita Mathematica 18, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-21984-4 468 Index of Names Auerbach, Herman, Polish mathematician, Baumann, Göttingen professor of philosophy, 130, 165, 253, 304, 310, 393, 445, 61 452, 454, 457 Bazhan, Mykola, Ukrainian writer, poet, and Auerbach, Marian, Polish philologist, 215 politician, 453 Auffenberg, Count Moritz von, Austrian Beck, Adolf, Polish physiologist, 316, 445, 454 general, 110 Beck, Henryk, son of Adolf, 316 August II the Strong, a Polish-Lithuanian king, Beck, Józef, Polish politician and army officer, 310 114, 207, 220, 231 August III, a Polish-Lithuanian king, 310 Beckowa, wife of Henryk Beck, 316 Axentowicz, Teodor, Polish painter, 307 Behring, Emil Adolf von, German physiologist, Ayres, Frank J., Jr., American mathematician, 300 149 Belloc, Joseph Hilaire, Anglo-French writer, 221 Bely˘ı, Andre˘ı (actually Boris Nikolaevich Bader, Emil, and wife Tusia, Lwów friends of Bugaev), Russian novelist and poet, the author, 143, 267 186 Bader, Mieczysław, brother of Emil, 288 Bendt, F., 39 Baedeker, Karl, 19th century German publisher Benedikt, Moritz, an Austrian newspaperman, of travel guides, 70 37 Baer, W., German lawyer, 57 Beneš, Edvard, Czechoslovak political leader, Bainville, Jacques, French historian and 441, 448 journalist, 77 Benson, Rex (“Baby”), Canadian roommate of Balicki, a Jasło resident, 455 the author in Göttingen, 74 Balicki, Zygmunt, Polish politician, 47 Berent, Wacław, Polish writer, 29 Balk, Henryk, Polish-Jewish poet and literary Berger, Ró˙za, victim of a pogrom, 460 critic, 309 Bergman, Stefan, Polish-American Balzac, Honoré de, French novelist, 29 mathematician, 394 Balzer, Oswald Marian, lawyer, 42 Bergson, Henri-Louis, French philosopher, Banach, Stefan, illustrious Polish 326 mathematician, 52, 121, 129, Berling, Zygmunt Henryk, Polish general and 135, 142–144, 149, 153, 156, 164, politician, 377 165, 181, 215, 238, 253, 303, 347, Bermant, A. F., Soviet mathematician, 250 425, 458, 461 Bernays, Paul Isaac, Swiss mathematician, 237 Banachiewicz, Tadeusz, Polish astronomer and Bernoulli, Jacob, Swiss mathematician, 218 mathematician, 53, 63, 64, 76, 80, Bernstein, Felix, German-Jewish 107, 455 mathematician, 61 Banachowa, Łucja, wife of Stefan Banach, 164 Bernstein, Serge, a mathematician at the Bandera, Stepan Andriyovich, Western Bologna ICM, 153 Ukrainian nationalist leader, 287, Berson, a Lwów engineer, 221 300 Betuchówna, Irena, a student of the author in Baranowski, Dante, Venetian-born, Polish Berdechów, 367 actor, 124 Bevin, Ernest, British labour politician, 464 Baranowski, Tadeusz, Polish biochemist and Białobrzeski, Czesław, Polish physicist and medical professor, 178 philosopher, 312 Bardeleben, Count Kurt von, German Bieberbach, Ludwig, German mathematician, chessmaster, 33 136 Barnas,´ a Jasło starosta, 415 Bielski, a Polish count, 262 Bartel, Kazimierz Władysław, Polish Biernacki, Mieczysław, Polish mathematician mathematician and politician, 143, and chemist, 393 149, 163, 165, 194, 197, 214, 229, Biernats, friends of the Cieluchs, 352 241, 291, 292, 392 Bierut, Bolesław, Polish communist political Bartel, Mrs., wife of Kazimierz Bartel, 292 leader, 414, 438 Baudelaire, Charles, French poet, 72 Birkhoff, George David, American Bauer, a Venetian hotelier, 98 mathematician, 157 Index of Names 469 Birnbaum, Zygmunt, Polish-American Borowicz (or Horowitz), Alfred (Fredek), mathematician, 394 brother of Olga Pamm, 372, 378, Biskupski, a Ruthenian mineralogist, 234 442 Bismarck, Otto von, Prussian chancellor, 58, Borsuk, Karol, Polish mathematician, 96, 185 66, 77 Boruchowicz, Michał Maksymilian, Bjørnson, Martinus, illustrious Norwegian Polish-Jewish writer, 261 writer, 29 Boy-Zele˙ nski,´ Tadeusz, prominent Polish Blaschke, Wilhelm, Austro-Hungarian writer, translator, and poet, 25, 29, mathematician, 137 247, 261, 266, 291 Blassberg, Maksymilian, a Kraków medical Brach, Miss, a Polish schoolteacher, 353 specialist, 179 Braglewicz, ˛ Tytus, Jasło merchant, 6 Blaton, Jan Antoni, Polish physicist, 143, 164 Brahms, Johannes, German composer, 58 Bloch, Maurycy (Morcio, Morys),´ a fellow Brandt, a Viennese landlord, 113 student of the author’s daughter, Branges, Louis de, French-American 211, 212, 217, 430 mathematician, 136 Blum, Dora, an acquaintance of the author, 375 Brauer, Richard, German mathematician, 136 Blumenfeld (assumed name Noga), Jan, son of Braun, Stefania, Polish mathematician, 395 Izydor, 347 Brendel, Martin, German astronomer, 60, 79 Blumenfeld, Dr. Ignacy, a friend of the author, Brentano, Franz, German philosopher and 146, 165, 189, 219, 371 psychologist, 58 Blumenfeld, Izydor, a plant manager, friend of Broch, an engineer, 459 the Steinhauses, 140, 250, 308, 350 Broglie, Maurice de, French physicist, 150 Blumenfeld, Stanisława (Stasia), wife of Broniewski, Władysław, Polish poet and Izydor, 296, 297, 308, 347 soldier, 240, 246, 247 Blumenfelds, the family of Izydor, 297, 300, Bronisława (Bronia) R., sister of Kac senior’s 308 wife, 197, 199 Bobrowski, a landowner from the Jasło area, Brühl, Count Heinrich von, 18th century 26 minister of the Elector of Saxony, 70 Bobrzynski,´ Michał, Polish historian, governor Bruno, Polish railroad official and German of Galicia, 93, 94, 112 guard, 361 Bochenski,´ Aleksander, a Polish landowner, Bujakowa, Maria (née Łomnicka), a Polish 311 artist, 266 Bochniewicz, a judge, 30 Bujwidówna, a Kraków student, 97 Böcklin, Arnold, Swiss symbolist painter, 160 Bukharin, Nikola˘ı Ivanovich, Russian Bohr, Harald, Danish mathematician, 80 Bolshevik revolutionary, 235 Bohr, Niels, Danish physicist, 80 Bul, a refugee family in Stró˙ze, 416 Bold, Jan Maciej, Polish legionnaire, 114, 119 Bulanda, Edmund Jan, Polish archaeologist, Bolek, R., a gendarme in the Polish Legions, 174, 306, 422 111 Bułat, an official in Zimna Woda, 328 Boltzmann, Ludwig, Austrian physicist and Bura, an Austrian lieutenant, 114 philosopher, 80 Burdecki, Feliks, Polish science-fiction writer Bong, Alfred, a Polish army doctor, 214, 217 and German collaborator, 381, 382 Boratynski,´ a priest in Wilczyska, 358 Burg, Adam von, Austrian mathematician, 39 Borejsza, Jerzy (born Benjamin Goldberg), Bürger, Gottfried, German poet, 58 Polish-Jewish writer and communist Burzynski,´ Włodzimierz, Polish engineering activist, 261, 262, 415 professor, 423 Borek, Kazimierz, Polish mathematician, a Byczenko, a rector of the Ivan Franko student of the author, 218, 394 University, 300 Borel, Émile, French mathematician, 48, 64, Byrnes, James Francis, American politician, 100, 215, 312 464 Borkowa, mother of Kazimierz Borek, 303 Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron, English Born, Max, German physicist, 80, 137 poet, 273 470 Index of Names Calvin, Jean, French theologian and pastor, Cieluchowa, Stefania (Stefa), wife of Tadeusz, 102, 208 335, 336 Cantor, Georg, German-Jewish mathematician, Cieluchowa, wife of Cieluch Senior, 453 61, 63 Cieluchs, the family of Cieluch Senior, 335, Carathéodory, Constantin, Greek 336, 340, 342, 352, 353, 365, 389, mathematician, 52, 60, 80 397, 403, 404, 408, 421, 449, 451, Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, 454 452 Cauchy, Augustin-Louis, French Cieszynski,´ a student in Munich, 84 mathematician, 62 Cieszynski,´ Antoni, Polish physician, surgeon, Cavan, Lord, British field marshal,