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    Polish magnate, statesman and military commander

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      • Count Zamoyski was educated in Poland and France and started on a musical career at the conservatory in Nancy, in eastern France, before his father sent him to study economics in preparation for taking over the family's agricultural estates.
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    Childhood and education. Jan Zamoyski was born on 19 March 1542 to Stanisław Zamoyski and Anna Herburt in Skokówka. [2] He started his education in a school in Krasnystaw but when he was thirteen years old he was sent to study abroad; from 1555 to 1559 he was a page at the royal court in Paris. [3]

  3. Apr 16, 2024 · Jan Zamoyski was a Polish advisor to King Sigismund II Augustus and Stephen Báthory and later an opponent of Sigismund III Vasa. He was a major force in the royal politics of Poland throughout his life. Educated in France and Italy, he returned to Poland in 1565 and was appointed secretary to King.

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  4. The Zamoyski Academy ( Polish: Akademia Zamojska; Latin: Hippaeum Zamoscianum; 1594–1784) was an academy founded in 1594 by Polish Crown Chancellor Jan Zamoyski. [1] It was the third institution of higher education to be founded in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. [2]

  5. After completing his education at Paris, Strassburg, and at Padua, where as rector of the academy he composed his celebrated work De senate romano (Venice, 1563), he returned home in 1565, one of the most consummate scholars and jurists in Europe. His essentially bold and practical genius sought at once the stormy political arena.

  6. www.wikiwand.com › en › Jan_ZamoyskiJan Zamoyski - Wikiwand

    Jan Sariusz Zamoyski ( Latin: Ioannes Zamoyski de Zamoscie; 19 March 1542 – 3 June 1605) was a Polish nobleman, magnate, statesman and the 1st ordynat of Zamość. He served as the Royal Secretary from 1565, Deputy Chancellor from 1576, Grand Chancellor of the Crown from 1578, and Great Hetman of the Crown from 1581.

  7. www.encyclopediaofukraine.com › displayZamostia Academy

    An institution of higher education founded in 1595 by Jan Zamoyski, chancellor of the Kingdom of Poland; located in Zamostia , a city in the Kholm region. The academy was operated by Jesuits, but initially it had a secular program of studies.

  8. Overview. Jan Zamoyski. (1542—1605) Quick Reference. (1542–1605), Polish statesman. He was educated in Padua and Paris, and on returning to Poland in 1565 was appointed as secretary to King Sigismund II. He subsequently supported the election ... From: Zamoyski, Jan in The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance » Subjects: Art & Architecture.