Rafał de Weryha-Wysoczański

Chevalier Rafał Hugon Maria de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz,[1][2][3][4] Ph.D. (born May 7, 1975) is a Polish art historian, genealogist and writer,[1][5] who was a representative of the auction house Sotheby's.[6]

He is the only child of sculptor Jan, 6th Chevalier de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz,[1][7] and nephew of Olympic Bronze Medallist and Vice World Champion in fencing Madame Ryszard Weryha-Wysoczańska-Pietrusiewicz and millionaire landowner and philanthropist Basil, 1st Chevalier de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz.[1][7][8]

Biography

Born in Poland, he was educated at the University of Hamburg and on a national merit-based scholarship[4] at Magdalene College, Cambridge,[9] where he became a member of the Cambridge University Heraldic and Genealogical Society.[5][10][11] He completed his doctorate – for which he was awarded another merit scholarship – under the supervision of Leibniz laureate Professor Martin Warnke.[5] De Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz is a former Delegate to the European Commission of the Nobility in Paris.[5] Reviewers of his book Strategien des Privaten noted that it has a “wise central idea” and that it “gives important food for thought”.[12]

Thanks to a generous handicap, he came second in the President's Race 2015 on the Cresta Run, in St. Moritz[13] having also been a member of the Cambridge University Cresta Team in 1999.[5]

Selected publications
  • A Chevalier from Poland. The Memoirs of Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański, Kibworth Beauchamp 2016, ISBN 978-1-7858-9161-8.
  • Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelige Häuser XXX, vol 145, Limburg an der Lahn 2008 (Contributor), ISBN 978-3-7980-0845-8.
  • Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon XVI, vol 137, Limburg an der Lahn 2005 (Contributor), ISBN 3-7980-0837-X.
  • Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon XVII, Nachträge, vol 144, Limburg an der Lahn 2008 (Contributor), ISBN 978-3-7980-0844-1.
  • Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch, Adelige Häuser IV, vol 8, Marburg 2018 (Contributor), ISBN 978-3-9817243-7-0.
  • Komposition als Kommunikation. Zur Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts. Festschrift Professor Peter Petersen, Frankfurt; Berlin; Bern; Bruxelles; New York; Oxford; Wien 2000 (Contributor), ISBN 3-631-36745-7.
  • Strategien des Privaten. Zum Landschaftspark von Humphry Repton und Fürst Pückler, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-86504-056-X.

References
  1. Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelige Häuser XXX, Limburg a. d. Lahn 2008, vol 145, pp. 412-420, ISBN 978-3-7980-0845-8, OCLC 1570546
  2. Magdalene College Magazine, 2006-2007, p. 62
  3. List of members, StMTC, Annual Report, 2007-2008, p. 336
  4. Hamburger Abendblatt, July 14, 1998
  5. Encyklopedia polskiej emigracji i Polonii (Encyclopedia of the Polish Emigration and of the Poles Abroad), Toruń 2005, vol V, p. 235, ISBN 83-89376-15-6
  6. Magdalene College Magazine, 2005-2006, p. 48
  7. The Peerage
  8. Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch, Adelige Häuser IV, Marburg 2018, vol 8, p. 497, ISBN 978-3-9817243-7-0, OCLC 995606854
  9. Hamburger Abendblatt, January 25, 2000
  10. Called in Reflections of a Young Fogey "British academia’s finest collection of correct form adherents"
  11. Whilst at Cambridge University he became inter alia also a member of the Wine and Food Society, a student dining society, named by Hugh Johnson in CAM, no 47, Lent Term 2006, p. 45, in reminiscences of the 1950s "a surprisingly serious coterie of moneyed young men"
  12. Webpage of the book Strategien des Privaten. Zum Landschaftspark von Humphry Repton und Fürst Pückler
  13. StMTC Results of the President's Race 2015
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