Jan Fryling
| Jan Fryling | |
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| Eleventh President of the Józef Piłsudski Institute of America | |
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In office 1972 – March 3, 1977 |
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| Preceded by | Wiesław Domaniewski |
| Succeeded by | Wacław Jędrzejewicz |
| Sixth Executive Director of the Józef Piłsudski Institute of America | |
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In office 1962–1972 |
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| Preceded by | Wacław Jędrzejewicz |
| Succeeded by | Michał Budny |
| Personal details | |
| Born | October 8, 1891 Lwów, Second Polish Republic |
| Died | March 3, 1977 New York City |
| Resting place |
Maple Grove Cemetery Kew Gardens, New York |
| Nationality | Polish |
Jan Fryling (born October 8, 1891 in Lwów, died March 3, 1977 in New York City) was a Polish diplomat, writer, journalist and president of the Józef Piłsudski Institute of America in the years 1972-1977.
He completed his elementary education at the III Gimnazjum in Lwów and pursued higher education in his hometown as well as in Munich. He published poetry before World War I. In 1913, he first recited his well-known and widely reprinted poem O, karabinie mój (O, my rifle). He served in the Polish Legions during the Great War.
In 1918, he was an editor of the magazine Nowa Gazeta and worked on his law residency at the Appeal Court in Warsaw. In November of that year, he also held a position at the Ministry of Religion and Public Enlightenment. In 1921, he defended his doctoral thesis in law at the Jan Kazimierz University in Lwów. In 1922, he served as a bureaucrat at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Later, he was responsible for the sections concerning the League of Nations and East-Central Europe and the Balkans.
He wrote play reviews for the French-language Warsaw publication Messager Polonais. From 1927-1930, he worked for the Polish diplomatic mission in Tokyo (serving as chargé d'affaire ad interim between April and October 1930). After his return to Poland, he once again worked for the Foreign Ministry and simultaneously, between 1932 and 1936, as a lecturer of diplomacy at the Jan Kazimierz University in Lwów and at the Wyższa Szkoła Wojenna (Higher Military School) in Warsaw.
Following the outbreak of World War II, he found himself in self-imposed exile in Romania. Between September 1939 and October 1940, he worked for the Polish consulate in Chernivtsi and later in Suceava. Subsequently, he spent some time in exile in Jerusalem. In May 1941, he became director of the Polish radio Kair, for which he wrote and edited broadcasts. In November 1943, he moved to China as an adviser to the Polish diplomatic mission in that country. He headed that mission between April 1945 and 1949 as a delegate of the Polish government-in-exile. In April 1949, he set out for India, where he was an unofficial envoy of the government-in-exile in Calcutta until 1956.
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