Jan Drohojowski

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| name = Jan Drohojowski

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| image = Jan Drohojowski z małżonką.jpg

| caption = Jan Drohojowski and his spouse, Katharyn Silva (1931)

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1901|01|27}}

| birth_place = Tarnów

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1979|02|01|1901|01|27}}

| death_place = Warsaw

| resting_place = Powązki Military Cemetery

| nationality = {{Flag|POL}} Polish

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| occupation = diplomat

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| spouse = Silva Cornell (since 1930)
Natalia Aszkenazy (since ca 1940)

| children = Katarzyna Maria Drohojowska
Francisco (Pancho) Drohojowski

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Jan Drohojowski (1901–1979) was a Polish diplomat for the governments of the Second Polish Republic and later, Polish government in exile and the People's Republic of Poland.

Biography

Born on 27 January 1901 in Tarnów, he began his diplomatic career around early 1920s, but retired following the May Coup (Poland), and emigrated to the United States, where he was a journalist for some Polish-American press.{{Cite web|url=http://www.pkobp.pl/index.php/id=hp_jdroh/section=ogol|title=O nas > Historia > Kierownictwo PKO w latach 1919-2009 > Sylwetki {{!}} PKO Bank Polski|date=2012-06-26|access-date=2017-05-03|url-status=bot: unknown|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120626093951/http://www.pkobp.pl/index.php/id=hp_jdroh/section=ogol|archivedate=26 June 2012|df=dmy-all}}

Following the onset of WWII he became involved with the Polish government in exile, first working in the Polish embassy in the USA. He was Poland's chargé d' affaires to Cuba (1942), a representative to China (1942), a consul in Jerusalem (1943), and following that he became a deputy minister of information and documentation in the government-in-exile until 1944. Following the war he joined the diplomatic service of the communist Polish government, becoming an envoy or an ambassador (sources vary) to Mexico (1945-1951) and Egypt (1952-1952).{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P2BZAAAAIAAJ&q=Jan+Drohojowski+(1901-1979)|title=Pamiėtnik literacki|last=|first=|date=1990-01-01|publisher=Zakład im. Ossolińskich|isbn=|location=|pages=242|language=pl}}[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/10721003/drohojowski_and_eschkenazi_accused_of_a/ "Ousted Polish Envoy in Cairo Linked to Rioting in January"] Corpus Christi Caller-Times (25 April 1952): 14. via Newspapers.com{{open access}} He was also a representative of Poland to the United Nations. From April 1952 to April 1953 he was a director of the Powszechna Kasa Oszczędności Bank Polski (1952-1953). He received the Order of Polonia Restituta twice (in 1946 and 1951).{{Cite web|url=http://isap.sejm.gov.pl/DetailsServlet?id=WMP19520090077|title=Internetowy System Aktów Prawnych|last=RP|first=Kancelaria Sejmu|website=isap.sejm.gov.pl|access-date=2017-05-03}}{{Cite web|url=http://isap.sejm.gov.pl/DetailsServlet?id=WMP19470160035|title=Internetowy System Aktów Prawnych|last=RP|first=Kancelaria Sejmu|website=isap.sejm.gov.pl|access-date=2017-05-03}} Following a purge, he was arrested and held until March 1955. He spent the rest of his life as a writer and journalist, publishing several books on Latin America, in addition to his memoirs.

He died on 2 January 1979 in Warsaw.

Personal life

Jan Drohojowski married twice. First around 1930 he married Texaco{{cite web | url=https://tulsaworld.com/archive/home-sweet-home-bill-hood-found-roots-in-tulsas-historic-maple-ridge/article_1686acd6-0dc3-5ddb-9e3f-916b5ca08bbf.html | title=Home sweet Home // Bill Hood Found roots in Tulsa's Historic Maple Ridge }} oil heiress Katharyn Silva Cornell; they had a daughter Katarzyna Maria Drohojowska.{{Cite web|url=http://www.sejm-wielki.pl/b/sw.144334|title=Jan Marceli Drohojowski z Drohojowa h. Korczak|author=Marek Jerzy Minakowski|website=Sejm-Wielki.pl|access-date=2017-05-03}} They divorced in 1935, with Cornell alleging that Drohojowski "told risque stories...[and] came to lunch in pajamas".[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/10720879/jan_drohojowskikathryn_cornell_divorce/ "Says Count Danced in his Shorts"] Reading Times (4 October 1935): 21. via Newspapers.com{{open access}} Drohojowski requested, but did not receive, alimony from Cornell, "an unusual plea in court annals."[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/10720829/jan_drohojowski_divorcing_kathryn/ "Alimony Denied Polish Count; is Wedded to Texan"] The Eagle (3 October 1935): 1. via Newspapers.com{{open access}} Later around 1940 he married his fellow diplomat Natalia Aszkenazy.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/10427945/natalia_aszkenazy_1944/ "Woman Diplomat Tells of Underground"] Daily Capital Journal (25 April 1944): 10. via Newspapers.com{{open access}} They had a son, Adam Francisco (Pancho) Drohojowski, born in Mexico in 1947.Christian E. Burckel, ed., [https://books.google.com/books?id=I0toWAiJLaIC Who's Who in the United Nations] (Burckel & Associations 1951): 129.

Bibliography

Jana Drohojewskiego wspomnienia dyplomatyczne (1959)
Abraham Lincoln (1962)
Meksyk bogów, krzyża i dolarów (1962)
Indianin prezydentem Meksyku (1964)
Religie i wierzenia w życiu Ameryki Łacińskiej (1964)
Róg obfitości (1967)
Ameryka Łacińska z bliska (1968)
Polacy w Ameryce (1976)

Jan Drohojowski

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