Jan Szyszko

{{Short description|Polish politician (1944–2019)}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

|name =Jan Szyszko

|nationality=Polish

|image =Jan Szyszko 2008.jpg

|imagesize =frameless

| office = Member of the Sejm

| term_start = 25 September 2005

| term_end = 9 October 2019

|office3 = Minister of Environment

|term_start3 = 16 November 2015

|term_end3 = 9 January 2018

|primeminister3 = Beata Szydło
Mateusz Morawiecki

|term_start4 = 31 October 2005

|term_end4 = 16 November 2007

|primeminister4 = Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz
Jarosław Kaczyński

|term_start5 = 31 October 1997

|term_end5 = 19 October 1999

|primeminister5 = Jerzy Buzek

| constituency = 20 – Warsaw II

| party = Law and Justice

|birth_name=Jan Feliks Szyszko

|birth_date = {{birth date|1944|4|14|df=y}}

|birth_place= Stara Miłosna, Warsaw, Poland

|death_date = {{Death date and age|2019|10|9|1944|4|14|df=y}}

|death_place=

|alma_mater = Warsaw University of Life Sciences

}}

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Jan Feliks Szyszko ({{IPA|pl|jan ʂɨʂkɔ|audio=Pl-Jan Szyszko.ogg}}; 19 April 1944 – 9 October 2019) was a Polish forester, university teacher (professor of forestry) and politician who served as Minister of Environment in the cabinets of Jerzy Buzek (1997–1999), Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz (2005–2007), Jarosław Kaczyński (2007), Beata Szydło (2015–2017) and Mateusz Morawiecki (2017–2018).

He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, receiving 7,042 votes in the 20th Warsaw district, as a candidate on the Law and Justice list. He served in four consecutive parliamentary terms, having won re-election in 2007, 2011 and 2015.

The Pontifical Academy of Sciences recognized him with the 2008 Ettore Majorana Award.{{cite news|title=Były polski minister środowiska uhonorowany w Watykanie|url=http://wiadomosci.wp.pl/kat,1356,title,Byly-polski-minister-srodowiska-uhonorowany-w-Watykanie,wid,10678403,wiadomosc.html?ticaid=11804b|access-date=3 November 2016|work=wiadomosci.wp.pl|agency=Grupa Wirtualna Polska|date=17 December 2008}} He was an honorary citizen of Krościenko nad Dunajcem and of Wieluń.

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