Rafał de Weryha-Wysoczański

Chevalier Rafał Hugon Maria de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz[1][2][3][4][5][6] (born May 7, 1975) is a Polish art historian, genealogist and writer,[2][7] who was a representative of the auction house Sotheby's.[8]

Per the "Genealogy of the de Weryha-Wysoczański Family" pedigree he produced for the Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels in 2008,[9] he is the only child of sculptor Jan, 6th Chevalier de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz,[2] and nephew of Olympic Bronze Medallist and Vice World Champion in fencing Madame Ryszard Weryha-Wysoczańska-Pietrusiewicz and millionaire landowner and philanthropist Basil, 1st Chevalier de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz.[2][10]

Biography

Born in Gdynia, Poland, he was educated at the University of Hamburg and on a national merit-based scholarship[6] at Magdalene College, Cambridge,[11] where he became a member of the Cambridge University Heraldic and Genealogical Society.[7][12][13] From a long line of womanisers in his family, he became a playboy[14] and completed his doctorate – for which he was awarded another merit scholarship – under the supervision of Leibniz laureate Professor Martin Warnke.[7] De Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz is a former Delegate to the European Commission of the Nobility in Paris.[7] Per reviews listed on his own website, reviewers of his book Strategien des Privaten noted that it has a “wise central idea” and that it “gives important food for thought”.[15] In 2016 he published a memoir entitled A Chevalier from Poland.[16]

Thanks to a generous handicap, he came second in the President's Race 2015 on the Cresta Run, in St. Moritz[17] having also been a member of the Cambridge University Cresta Team in 1999.[7]

Selected publications

  • A Chevalier from Poland. The Memoirs of Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański, Kibworth Beauchamp 2016, ISBN 978-1-7858-9161-8.
  • Deutsches Adelsblatt, No. 10, October 15, 2002 (Contributor).
  • Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelige Häuser XXX, vol 145, Limburg an der Lahn 2008 (Contributor), ISBN 978-3-7980-0845-8.
  • Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon XVI, vol 137, Limburg an der Lahn 2005 (Contributor), ISBN 3-7980-0837-X.
  • Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon XVII, Nachträge, vol 144, Limburg an der Lahn 2008 (Contributor), ISBN 978-3-7980-0844-1.
  • Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch, Adelige Häuser IV, vol 8, Marburg 2018 (Contributor), ISBN 978-3-9817243-7-0.
  • Komposition als Kommunikation. Zur Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts. Festschrift Professor Peter Petersen, Frankfurt; Berlin; Bern; Bruxelles; New York; Oxford; Wien 2000 (Contributor), ISBN 3-631-36745-7.
  • St. Moritz Tobogganing Club, Annual Report, No. 95, 2014-2015 (Contributor).
  • Strategien des Privaten. Zum Landschaftspark von Humphry Repton und Fürst Pückler, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-86504-056-X.

References

  1. ^ Listed with first name, two middle names, title of nobility and triple barrelled surname in Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch, Adelige Häuser IV, Marburg 2018, vol 8, pp. 492-493, ISBN 978-3-9817243-7-0, OCLC 995606854
  2. ^ a b c d Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelige Häuser XXX, Limburg a. d. Lahn 2008, vol 145, pp. 412-420, ISBN 978-3-7980-0845-8, OCLC 1570546
  3. ^ Listed with title of nobility in Deutsches Adelsblatt, Personelle Besetzung der Organisationen des Adels, No. 2, February 15, 2003, p. 41
  4. ^ Magdalene College Magazine, 2006-2007, p. 62
  5. ^ List of members, StMTC, Annual Report, 2007-2008, p. 336
  6. ^ a b Hamburger Abendblatt, Stipendium für Cambridge Universität, July 14, 1998, p. 2
  7. ^ a b c d e Encyklopedia polskiej emigracji i Polonii (Encyclopedia of the Polish Emigration and of the Poles Abroad), Toruń 2005, vol V, p. 235, ISBN 83-89376-15-6
  8. ^ Magdalene College Magazine, 2005-2006, p. 48
  9. ^ Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański, A Chevalier from Poland. The Memoirs of Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański, Kibworth Beauchamp 2016, p. 4, ISBN 978-1785891618, OCLC 956765261
  10. ^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch, Adelige Häuser IV, Marburg 2018, vol 8, p. 497, ISBN 978-3-9817243-7-0, OCLC 995606854
  11. ^ Hamburger Abendblatt, Rodeln in St. Moritz, January 25, 2000, p. 10
  12. ^ Called in Reflections of a Young Fogey "British academia’s finest collection of correct form adherents"
  13. ^ Whilst at Cambridge University he became inter alia also a member of the Wine and Food Society, a student dining society, named by Hugh Johnson in CAM, no 47, Lent Term 2006, p. 45, in reminiscences of the 1950s "a surprisingly serious coterie of moneyed young men"
  14. ^ Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański, A Chevalier from Poland. The Memoirs of Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański, Kibworth Beauchamp 2016, p. 41, ISBN 978-1785891618, OCLC 956765261.
  15. ^ Webpage of the book Strategien des Privaten. Zum Landschaftspark von Humphry Repton und Fürst Pückler
  16. ^ A Chevalier from Poland at the De Weryha Collection
  17. ^ StMTC Results of the President's Race 2015