Ignacy Mościcki
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President of the Republic of Poland 3rd President of the Second Polish Republic |
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In office 4 June 1926 – 30 September 1939 |
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| Preceded by | Stanisław Wojciechowski |
| Succeeded by | Władysław Raczkiewicz (President of the Polish Republic in Exile) |
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1 December 1867 Mierzanowo, Płock Governorate, Congress Poland (now Poland) |
| Died | 2 October 1946 (aged 78) Versoix, Switzerland |
| Political party | Proletariat (until 1892) |
| Spouse(s) | Michalina Czyżewska (d.1932) Maria Dobrzańska (m.1933) |
| Children | 4 |
| Profession | Chemist |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
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Ignacy Mościcki (Polish pronunciation: [iɡˈnat͡sɨ mɔˈɕt͡ɕit͡skʲi]; 1 December 1867 – 2 October 1946) was a Polish chemist, politician, and President of Poland from 1926 to 1939. He was the longest serving President in Poland's history.
Ignacy Mościcki was born on 1 December 1867 in Mierzanowo, a small village near Ciechanów, Poland. After completing school in Warsaw, he studied chemistry at the Riga Polytechnicum. There he joined the Polish underground leftist organization, Proletariat.
On graduating, he returned to Warsaw, but was threatened by the Tsarist secret police with life imprisonment in Siberia and was forced to emigrate in 1892 to London. In 1896 he was offered an assistantship at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. There he patented a method for cheap industrial production of nitric acid.
In 1912 Mościcki moved to Lemberg (Polish: Lwów; Ukrainian: L'viv), in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, where he accepted a chair in physical chemistry and technical electrochemistry at the Lemberg Polytechnic. In 1925 he was elected rector of the Lwów Polytechnic (as it now was called), but soon moved to Warsaw to continue his research at the Warsaw Polytechnic.
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