Michał Weinzieher

Michał Weinzieher (born 1 June 1903 in Będzin, Russian Empire, Polish lands of the Russian Partition; d. April 1944 in Kraków) was a Polish art historian and art critic, museologist, and separately also a writer on constitutional law (known for his studies of the thought of Leon Petrazycki). He also published several pieces of travel reportage from France, England, and the Soviet Union.

Michał Weinzieher was born on 1 June 1903 in the town of Będzin, in the Dąbrowa Basin (Zagłębie Dąbrowskie) of the western Lesser Poland geographical area, about 13 kilometres south-west of Katowice and about 88 km north-west of Kraków. The town counted . His father, Dr. Salomon Weinzieher (1869–1943?), a physician and director of a regional hospital, was one of the most distinguished citizens of his town and its province and a member of Parliament (including, for a time, chairman of its Jewish caucus). Weinzieher had also a younger brother, (Jan) Jakub Weinzieher (1908–1940), a physician like his father and a lieutenant () of the Polish Air Force, who would perish in the Katyn Massacre perpetrated by the Soviet secret police. Their father will die in the Holocaust by being deported from the Będzin Ghetto to the Auschwitz concentration camp on 1 August 1943 (other sources indicating he was murdered in the Ghetto).

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