Marek Jerzy Minakowski
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Marek Jerzy Minakowski (born 13 June 1972 in Olsztyn
) is a Polish philosopher, historian and genealogist, author of the "Wielką genealogię". Graduated from the Jagiellonian University
with the dissertation Formal Logic before Aristotle which was the result of collecting all traces of the use of formal logic in Greek writing prior to 350 B.C. (book contains a large catalog of all passages, with original text, translation and logical formalization). Being 26 years old, he was one of the youngest PhD
s in Cracow.
Soon before graduation, in 1997, Minakowski accepted an editorial post at OptimusNet (now Onet.pl
), where he built the leading Polish financial site, OnetBiznes, which by the end of the year 2000 turned to be a most-read source of financial information in Poland. Later, he switched to search business, as a director of Search at Onet.pl.
With this double background (logical formalization of texts and managing large Internet database systems), Minakowski was able to cope with his idée fixe and started building the genealogical
database of the whole Polish historical élites.
For the beginning, Minakowski prepared the densely-tagged XML
edition of Adam Boniecki's Herbarz Polski (originally 17 volumes or 6500 pages published between 1899 and 1913, with genealogies of about 0.3 million people living since 13th to 20th century). The edition is available at CD-ROM
since 2003.
The next stage was building a GEDCOM
database of all people related genealogically to the icons of the Golden Age of Polish culture
: Jan Kochanowski
and Mikołaj Rej. The first edition, published in 2005 under the title Ci wielcy Polacy to nasza rodzina. Not only Minakowski connected about 170,000 individuals to both of them, but also found that every fifth person out of 25,000 described in the Polski Słownik Biograficzny is related to them (with a finite chain of three relations: being son of, being parent of and being spouse of).
Currently Minakowski focuses on building the database of descendants of all members of the Great Sejm
. He is the chairman (Marszałek) of Stowarzyszenie Potomków Sejmu Wielkiego (the Society of the Descendants of the Great Sejm, SPSW), organization similar to Sons of the American Revolution
.
Olsztyn
Olsztyn is a city in northeastern Poland, on the Łyna River. Olsztyn has been the capital of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship since 1999. It was previously in the Olsztyn Voivodeship...
) is a Polish philosopher, historian and genealogist, author of the "Wielką genealogię". Graduated from the Jagiellonian University
Jagiellonian University
The Jagiellonian University was established in 1364 by Casimir III the Great in Kazimierz . It is the oldest university in Poland, the second oldest university in Central Europe and one of the oldest universities in the world....
with the dissertation Formal Logic before Aristotle which was the result of collecting all traces of the use of formal logic in Greek writing prior to 350 B.C. (book contains a large catalog of all passages, with original text, translation and logical formalization). Being 26 years old, he was one of the youngest PhD
PHD
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s in Cracow.
Soon before graduation, in 1997, Minakowski accepted an editorial post at OptimusNet (now Onet.pl
Onet.pl
Onet.pl is the largest Polish web portal. It is owned by the Kraków-based Grupa Onet.pl S.A. It was founded in 1996 by Optimus company. According to Alexa rankings, as of December 2007, it is the 45th most popular website worldwide and the 3rd most popular site in Poland.Onet is currently owned by...
), where he built the leading Polish financial site, OnetBiznes, which by the end of the year 2000 turned to be a most-read source of financial information in Poland. Later, he switched to search business, as a director of Search at Onet.pl.
With this double background (logical formalization of texts and managing large Internet database systems), Minakowski was able to cope with his idée fixe and started building the genealogical
Genealogy
Genealogy is the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history. Genealogists use oral traditions, historical records, genetic analysis, and other records to obtain information about a family and to demonstrate kinship and pedigrees of its members...
database of the whole Polish historical élites.
For the beginning, Minakowski prepared the densely-tagged XML
XML
Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards....
edition of Adam Boniecki's Herbarz Polski (originally 17 volumes or 6500 pages published between 1899 and 1913, with genealogies of about 0.3 million people living since 13th to 20th century). The edition is available at CD-ROM
CD-ROM
A CD-ROM is a pre-pressed compact disc that contains data accessible to, but not writable by, a computer for data storage and music playback. The 1985 “Yellow Book” standard developed by Sony and Philips adapted the format to hold any form of binary data....
since 2003.
The next stage was building a GEDCOM
GEDCOM
GEDCOM, an acronym for GEnealogical Data COMmunication, is a proprietary and open de facto specification for exchanging genealogical data between different genealogy software...
database of all people related genealogically to the icons of the Golden Age of Polish culture
Polish Golden Age
The Polish Golden Age refers to the times from 15th century Jagiellon Poland to the death of the last of the Jagiellons, Sigismund August in 1569, or mid-17th century, when in 1648 the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was ravaged by the Khmelnytsky Uprising and The Deluge and the Golden Age...
: Jan Kochanowski
Jan Kochanowski
Jan Kochanowski was a Polish Renaissance poet who established poetic patterns that would become integral to Polish literary language.He is commonly regarded as the greatest Polish poet before Adam Mickiewicz, and the greatest Slavic poet, prior to the 19th century.-Life:Kochanowski was born at...
and Mikołaj Rej. The first edition, published in 2005 under the title Ci wielcy Polacy to nasza rodzina. Not only Minakowski connected about 170,000 individuals to both of them, but also found that every fifth person out of 25,000 described in the Polski Słownik Biograficzny is related to them (with a finite chain of three relations: being son of, being parent of and being spouse of).
Currently Minakowski focuses on building the database of descendants of all members of the Great Sejm
Great Sejm
The Great Sejm, also known as the Four-Year Sejm was a Sejm of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth that was held in Warsaw, beginning in 1788...
. He is the chairman (Marszałek) of Stowarzyszenie Potomków Sejmu Wielkiego (the Society of the Descendants of the Great Sejm, SPSW), organization similar to Sons of the American Revolution
Sons of the American Revolution
The National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution is a Louisville, Kentucky-based fraternal organization in the United States...
.
Selected bibliography
- Uzupełnienia i sprostowania do haseł: Łopacki Mikołaj (ok. 1590 – ok. 1648), Opacki Olbracht (ok. 1621–1680), Opacki Zygmunt (zm. 1654) i Radzicki Józef (ok. 1715–1793) [“Additions and Corrections” to the entries: Łopacki Mikołaj (ca. 1590 – ca. 1648), Opacki Olbracht (ca. 1621–1680), Opacki Zygmunt († 1654) and Radzicki Józef (ca. 1715–1793)], in: Polski Słownik Biograficzny, vol. XXXII (1989–1991), pp. XV–XVI and vol. XXXIII (1991–1992), pp. IX–X.
- Is there a logical mistake in Plato’s Meno (89a1–5)? (abstract), in: 10th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, August 19–25, 1995 — Florence, Italy, Volume of Abstracts, Commune di Cesena, Cessena 1995, s. 350.
- Implikacja w węższym sensie wg W. Galeńskiego [Implication in a narrower sense by W. Galeński], in: Ruch Filozoficzny 3–4/1995, pp. 448–454.
- Is there a logical mistake in Plato’s Meno (89a1–5)?, Dialogikon series, vol. VI.
- Attic Greek / Greka attycka [two databases for SuperMemo on a CD ROM], SuperMemo World, Poznań 1997.
- Adam Boniecki, Herbarz polski, 2nd edition recognized, analyzed and indexed by Marek Jerzy Minakowski, version 1.0, Kraków 2003, version 2.0, Kraków 2004 (CD-ROM), ISBN 83-918058-1-6.
- Ci wielcy Polacy to nasza rodzina, Kraków 2005 (CD-ROM), ISBN 83-918058-2-4.