Eugeniusz Piasecki, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Eugeniusz Piasecki

Polish physician

Date of Birth: 13-Nov-1872

Place of Birth: Lviv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 14-Jul-1947

Profession: physician

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Eugeniusz Piasecki

  • Eugeniusz Piasecki (November 13, 1872 in Lwów – July 14, 1947 in the village of Ptaszyn near Cieplice Slaskie-Zdrój) was a Polish physician, promoter of sports and hygiene and boyscouting activist.
  • He was the son of Wenanty Piasecki, a gym teacher at Lwów's schools and member of Gymnastic Society Sokol.
  • Eugeniusz studied medicine at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, and there he became familiar with ideas promoted by Henryk Jordan.
  • In 1896, after graduation, he returned to Lwów where became a gym teacher at the local 4th high school.
  • Soon afterwards, he founded first sports teams for students and in 1904 he opened Sports-Gymnastic Club of the 4th High School, which three years later took on the name Pogon Lwów, becoming one of the most popular sports organizations in the history of Poland.
  • Piasecki was the first director of the club, keeping the post until 1909, when he took up the job of a lecturer at the University of Jan Kazimierz.
  • In 1912 Piasecki, together with Mieczyslaw Schreiber, published one of the first Polish handbooks of scouting titled Harce mlodziezy polskiej (Games of Polish youth).
  • He wrote that a scout should cultivate national traditions together with emphasis on physical development.
  • Piasecki made up several terms which are until today used in Polish scouting (harcmistrz, harcerz, zastep).
  • During World War I he moved to Kiev, where lectured hygiene in local Polish University Collegium.
  • In 1919 he returned to Poland and settled in Poznan, where became a professor of the Poznan University, teaching theory of physical education and school hygiene.
  • Piasecki also was an expert, co-working with the League of Nations.
  • He died shortly after World War II .

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