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18-432: Mościcki may refer to: Ignacy Mościcki (1867–1946), Polish chemist, politician, and President of Poland (1926–1939) Henryka Mościcka-Dendys (born 1976), Polish diplomat, legal scholar Jan Mościcki (1988), Polish ice dancer , partner of Joanna Budner Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

36-557: A citizen of Switzerland; he was also an honorary citizen of Fribourg . The Romanian authorities gave their provisional consent to his departure, but Germany opposed it. Mościcki was offered to United States President Franklin Roosevelt , who was determined to have Mościcki go to Switzerland. The intervention of the US government forced the Romanian authorities to agree. General Sikorski also ordered

54-404: A view to eliminating Sławek from the game, Mościcki concluded a power-sharing agreement with Rydz-Śmigły, which had caused Sławek to be marginalised as a serious political player by the end of the year. As a result of the agreement, Rydz-Śmigły would become the de facto leader of Poland until the outbreak of the war, and Mościcki remained influential by continuing in office as president. Mościcki

72-798: Is located in the Avenue of Merit at the Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw , where his second wife is buried next to him. The mortal remains of his daughter Helena and her husband Aleksander Bobkowski were also moved in September 1993 to the Mościcki family tomb at the Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw Polish Chemical Society The society was founded of 118 Charter Members on 29 June 1919 on

90-868: The Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria , in Austria-Hungary , where he accepted a chair in physical chemistry and technical electrochemistry at the Lviv Polytechnic . In 1925, he was elected rector of the Lwów Polytechnic (as it was then called), but soon moved to Warsaw to continue his research at the Warsaw Polytechnic . In 1926, he became an Honorary Member of the Polish Chemical Society . After Józef Piłsudski 's May 1926 coup d'état on 1 June 1926, Mościcki, once an associate of Piłsudski in

108-696: The Polish Army in France , Warsaw residents in prisoner-of-war camps , concentration camps and labour camps . For five months, he taught at the University of Fribourg . Later, he was forced to take up paid work. In 1940, he moved to Geneva , where he worked in the Hydro-Nitro Chemical Laboratory. Mościcki's health deteriorated rapidly after 1943. He died on 2 October 1946, in Versoix , near Geneva , and

126-709: The Polish Socialist Party , was elected President of Poland by the National Assembly on the recommendation of Piłsudski, who had refused the post for himself. As president, Mościcki was subservient to Piłsudski and never openly showed dissent from any aspect of the Marshal 's leadership. After Piłsudski's death in 1935, his followers divided into three main factions: those supporting Mościcki as Piłsudski's successor, those supporting General Edward Rydz-Śmigły and those supporting Prime Minister Walery Sławek . With

144-768: The Riga Polytechnicum , where he joined the Polish underground leftist organization, Proletariat . Upon graduating, he returned to Warsaw but was threatened by the Tsarist secret police with life imprisonment in Siberia and was forced to emigrate in 1892 to London. In 1896, he was offered an assistantship at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. There, he patented a method for cheap industrial production of nitric acid . In 1912, Mościcki moved to Lviv ( Polish : Lwów ), in

162-497: The German invasion of Poland and was forced by France to resign his office. He transferred the office to General Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski , who held it for only one day before General Władysław Sikorski and the French government ousted him in favour of Władysław Raczkiewicz . Mościcki was planning to leave for Switzerland after leaving office as president. From 1908 to 1920, he was

180-466: The Polish Chemical Society became a public benefit organization . The statute states that one of the goals of the society is ‘‘the encouragement of progress of chemical science and propagation thereof among the public, as well as representation of the professional interests of chemists, both researchers and those industrially employed’’. Currently, the offices of the society are located in

198-680: The Polish embassy in Bucharest to provide all assistance to Mościcki. The president stayed in Romania until December 1939. Mościcki came to Switzerland through Milan , where he met with Wieniawa-Długoszowski. Initially, he lived in Fribourg , where he was allowed to continue his scientific work. During this period, among others, he wrote down his memories, which were published by the New York City magazine Independence . Mościcki donated money to soldiers of

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216-480: The authorities of the Canton of Geneva in Switzerland withdrew their agreement for political reasons after protests related to Solidarity from emigrants. On 10 September 1993, Mościcki's remains were exhumed from the cemetery of Versoix and transported to Poland. Three days later they were deposited on behalf of incumbent President Lech Wałęsa in the crypt of St. John's Archcathedral, Warsaw . Mościcki's symbolic grave

234-461: The initiative of Leon Marchlewski , Stanisław Bądzyński and Ignacy Mościcki , future President of Poland who was a chemist himself. The initial aim of the organization was to bring together Polish chemists previously working under different partitions as well as from abroad. It was founded in three Polish cities: Lwów (today Lviv in Ukraine), Kraków , and Warsaw and the first scientific meeting

252-579: The title Mościcki . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mościcki&oldid=1138321487 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Ignacy Mo%C5%9Bcicki Ignacy Mościcki ( Polish pronunciation: [iɡˈnatsɨ mɔɕˈtɕitskʲi] ; 1 December 1867 – 2 October 1946)

270-547: Was a Polish chemist and politician who was the country's president from 1926 to 1939. He was the longest serving president in Polish history. Mościcki was the President of Poland when Germany invaded the country on 1 September 1939 and started World War II . Mościcki was born on 1 December 1867 in Mierzanowo , a small village near Ciechanów , Congress Poland . After completing school in Warsaw , he studied chemistry at

288-421: Was buried at the cemetery of the town. His daughter Helena (1897-1962) and her second husband Aleksander Bobkowski (1885-1966) were buried next to him. In 1984, his descendants requested for the remains of Mościcki and his wife to be moved from Switzerland to Poland . The relevant Polish authorities agreed that a funeral was to be held in Warsaw and be completely private, without any state ceremonies. However,

306-510: Was organized in Warsaw on 1 November 1919 by the executive board of the society. The Polish Chemical Society initiated a series of scientific conferences as well as founded Poland's first chemistry journal Roczniki Chemii . After the Second World War , the society was reactivated in 1946 and continues its activities until today. It has 1,959 members, who work in 20 regional centres. In 2006,

324-401: Was the leading moderate figure in the regime, which was referred to as the " colonels' government " because of the major presence of military officers in the Polish government. Mościcki opposed many of the nationalist excesses of the more right-wing Rydz-Śmigły, but their pact remained more or less intact. Mościcki remained president until September 1939, when he was interned in Romania after

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