General and mathematician: Adam Olgierd Uziembło (1906-1990)

Roman Duda

Antiquitates Mathematicae, Tome 8 (2014).

Résumé

Adam Olgierd Uziembło (AOU) was born on 3rd May of 1906 in Kimry on the Volga in the family of Adam (1985-1971) and Maria Jadwiga (née Wierzejski). His grandfather Joseph Uziembło (1854-1918)  was the organizer of the socialist circles in Kiev, Moscow and Warsaw in the years 1974-1878. AOU grew up in his grandmother Catherine’s house, along with two uncle Władysław’s doughters. When his parents got divorced - remained under the care of his mother and grandmother. During the World War I AOU father was in the Austrian army, and then in the Polish Legions. In 1917 he married a second time with Maria Janina (neé Kalińska), with whom he had a daughter, Angela (b. 1919).           AOU was in Moscow, where after the revolution he was taught in Polish schools, which led the NKVD, and taught in it, among others, his mother, Maria, Maria Domrazek, Sofia Dzerzhinskaya (wife of Felix), Sophia Słomnicka-Samelson, and others. To Poland AOU came with his mother in 1920. He studied at the Gymnasium Rejtana in Warsaw, where he was  graduated in 1924, and then he studied mathematics at the University of Warsaw up to 1932. He was interested in logic and participated in seminars Professor Jan Łukasiewicz and Associate Professor Alfred Tarski. He had to stop the study. He spent the war in a POW  camp (Oflag), then joined the army. He was graduated from the Wrocław University in 1956.  And there he received his doctorate degree in 1962. In 1968 he got habilitation at the Warsaw University.

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