Education
He studied at the polytechnics of Prague and Warsaw.
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Damian Wandycz
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During World War I fought with the I Brigade of the Polish Legions. In 1923, Wandycz became the director of a Polish petroleum-exporting company. During World World War II worked for the Polish government-in-exile.
Sent to the United States with the mission of negotiating an American loan for Poland, remained in America.
In 1951–1956 executive director of the Józef Piłsudski Institute of America. Also an organizer of the first Congress of American Scholars of Polish Extraction.
Achievements
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In 1965–1969, director of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America. Wandycz received, among others, the Cross for Loyal Service to the I Brigade (Krzyż za Wierną Służbę I Brygady), the Cross of Independence (Krzyż Niepodległości) and the Gold Cross of Merit (Złoty Krzyż Zasługi). Congress of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America, November 25, 26, 27, 1966 in New York, educated By Damian S. Wandycz, New York: Institute on East Central Europe: Columbia University Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America 1971.
Membership
He served as a member of the municipal council of the Polish city of Lwów before World World War II as well as Executive Director of the Józef Piłsudski Institute of America in the years 1951–1956. In 1918 a member of the Polish diplomatic mission to Czechoslovakia.
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Nationality
Poland