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Jan Biziel (1858–1934) was a German and Polish physician, social activist, city councilor of Bydgoszcz. He was designated "Honorary Citizen of Bydgoszcz" in 1930.
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Jan Biziel (1858–1934) was a German and Polish physician, social activist, city councilor of Bydgoszcz. He was designated "Honorary Citizen of Bydgoszcz" in 1930.
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Biography Jan Łukasz Biziel was born on 12 October 1858 in Osieczna, Leszno County. He was the son of Rozalia née Pajkert and Franciszek Biziel, a farmer. He was the younger son of a very large family, having 4 brothers and 6 sisters. He attended the gymnasium in Leszno from 1872 to 1879, then he studied medicine at Leipzig's and Greifswald's universities. He started his medical practice in Chełmno: there he gained experience in the field of medical knowledge and perfected his practice. In particular he worked under the attention of Ludwik Rydygier, the famous Polish surgeon who later became professor at the Jagiellonian University of Kraków. Leaving Chełmno, he spent the next five years in Krzywiń, hometown of his wife Maria. In 1902, they moved to Wrocław where Jan worked for four years at the hospital: their third daughter was born there. Finally, on 28 March 1906, the Biziel family moved to Bromberg, living at 3 Cieszkowskiego street. The Biziel's later purchased a house at May 3 street (Nr.8), which Pelagia, one of their daughter, kept till after WWII. At that time, there were already several private and public hospitals in Bromberg/Bydgoszcz. Most of the physicians were German: Jan…
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Family Jan Biziel was married to Maria Ludwika née Badeltów, a teacher from Krzywin. Maria was the daughter of Paweł Badelt, very active in his city. He founded the first pharmacy of Krzywin (on 11 March 1870), co-founded the "People's Bank" in Krzywin and chaired the "Strzelce's Fowler Brotherhood" (Polish: Bractwa kurkowe) of the town. He died in 1901.
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Maria Ludwika (born 1894), a teacher; Pelagia Rozalia (born 1896) a teacher as well; Ludwika Izabela (born 1903) who was an assistant at the Municipal Library in Bydgoszcz. Jan Biziel family has many descendants, most of them live in Poland (Poznań, Wrocław).
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Activism Upon his arrival in Bromberg in 1906, Jan Biziel combined his medical practice with nationalist and social activism. He was active in many forums such as: the "Industrial Association of Bydgoszcz" (Polish: Towarzystwo Przemysłowe w Bydgoszczy) created by Teofil Magdziński in 1872; the "Craftsmen Association" (Polish: Towarzystwo Rzemieślników); the "Society of Polish-Catholic Workers" (Polish: Towarzystwa Robotników Polsko-Katolickich) as an honorary member. He was also very dynamic in the parish of the St. Martin and Nicholas cathedral. His own house at 3 Cieszkowskiego street quickly became a radiating center of social welfare and patriotism. In 1909, he headed the County Committee of the "People's Reading Room Society". On his initiative, a bookshop promoting Polish language was established in Bromberg at the end of 1911, at the crossing of today's Mostowa and Jagiellońska streets. The same year, Biziel joined the city Popular National Union and soon became one of its leading members alongside Jan Teska (1876–1945). In 1914, he was one of the co-founder and representative at the supervisory board of the "Discount Bank" in Bydgoszcz. The role of this institution was to grant loans to peasants wrestling for land with the Prussian Colonization Commission. Dr. Biziel used to give many…
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Honors He was awarded Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (Polish: Krzyże Oficerskim Orderu Odrodzenia Polski) on 2 May 1922; In January 1930, the Bydgoszcz municipality adopted a resolution nominating Jan Biziel as an Honorary Citizen of Bydgoszcz, for outstanding social services to the benefit of Polish citizens of the city. The ceremony was held on 19 January 1930, the 10th anniversary Bydgoszcz re-joining the motherland. The city commendation mentioned: "For several dozen years he devoted himself tirelessly to social work in various organizations in our city." A street on Bydgoszcz, in "Wzgórze Wolności" district has been named after him. Since 1992, Dr. Jan Biziel is the patron the Provincial Hospital of Bydgoszcz ("Szpital Uniwersytecki nr 2 im. dr. Jana Biziela"). In 1999, a commemorative plaque has been unveiled at 3 Cieszkowskiego street, Biziel's house in Bygoszcz. In June 2014, another commemorative plaque has been placed on the wall of the tenement at 12 Długa Street, to remember that during the Greater Poland uprising, the premises (then owned by Stanislaw Stryszyk) housed an infirmary for the wounded insurgents tended with the heroic help of Dr. Jan Biziel.
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Bibliography Błażejewski Stanisław, Kutta Janusz, Romaniuk Marek (1995). Bydgoski Słownik Biograficzny. Tom II. Bydgoszcz: Kujawsko-Pomorskie Towarzystwo Kulturalne Wojewódzki Ośrodek Kultury. pp. 35–37. ISBN 8385327274. Kutta, Janusz (1992). Honorowi obywatele miasta Bydgoszczy (1920-1939). Bydgoszcz. p. 12.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Hojka, Małgorzata (1999). Wierni Macierzy: bydgoszczanie w Powstaniu Wielkopolskim 1918/19. Bydgoszcz. p. 14. ISBN 8391257452.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)