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Dunin's descendants were eventually able to escape Poland to [[France]] and finally to the [[United States]] in the 1940s.<ref name="detroit_times">{{cite news | last = | first = | title =Engagement of Countess Revealed | work = Detroit Times | date = [[April 23]], 1957}}</ref> |
Dunin's descendants were eventually able to escape Poland to [[France]] and finally to the [[United States]] in the 1940s.<ref name="detroit_times">{{cite news | last = | first = | title =Engagement of Countess Revealed | work = Detroit Times | date = [[April 23]], 1957}}</ref> |
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Dunin is one of the characters in the Italian novel "Il Guardiano dei Signio" (''The Guardian of Dreams'') by [[Paolo Maurensig]] (ISBN 8-80-454976-9). |
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Revision as of 00:24, 25 August 2007
Antoni Dunin (1907-1939) was a Polish nobleman (szlachta), a Hrabia (Count), and an army officer who received the prestigious Virtuti Militari award.[1]
Biography
Dunin was born on June 5, 1907, the youngest child of Lucia (Łucja) Taczanowska (1862-1917) and her second husband Count Rodryg Dunin (1870-1928). He grew up at the Granówko estate near Poznań, the youngest of ten children. He had six older siblings by his mother's first marriage to Stanisław Niezychowski, and two sisters and one brother via his own father Rodryg.[2] [3]When Antoni was 13, his elder brother Stanisław died in combat, and was immortalized in the 1922 painting The Death of Lieutenant Stanisław Dunin (Polish: Śmierć Porucznika Stanisława Dunina) by Wojciech Kossak.[4] The Dunin family crest is the Łabędź (swan).[5]
On December 28, 1933, Dunin married Zofia Helena Werner (1910-1939), daughter of Poland's vice-Finance Minister Edward Werner[6], and great-niece of the man who would become Saint Raphael Kalinowski. They had three children: Krystyna, Stanley (Stanisław, named after Dunin's older brother), and Magda (Magdelena).[2]
Between 1933 and 1934 he served as an NCO in the Polish Army and graduated from the Cavalry Training Centre, where he was also awarded with the memorial badge of his home unit, the 15th Poznań Uhlan's Regiment[7]. Mobilized prior to the outbreak of World War II, Dunin was drafted into the Wielkopolska Cavalry Brigade under Gen. Roman Abraham. Serving in the rank of Porucznik (First Lieutenant) he commanded the march squadron of the 15th Poznań Uhlan's Regiment[8]. He joined the unit on September 8, 1939, and took part in the Battle of Bzura[8]. Dunin was killed in combat at the age of 32 on September 16, 1939[9]. His wife was killed the next day, at the age of 29.[2] Their three orphaned children survived by being shuffled from house to house during the war, until finally taking up residence at the estate of Jan Czarnowski, a Polish nobleman, married to Zofia's aunt Helena (Lunia) Kalinowska.
Dunin's descendants were eventually able to escape Poland to France and finally to the United States in the 1940s.[10]
In popular culture
Dunin is one of the characters in the Italian novel "Il Guardiano dei Signio" (The Guardian of Dreams) by Paolo Maurensig (ISBN 8-80-454976-9).
See also
References
- ^ Wesolowski, Z (February 5, 1998). "Polish Order of the Virtuti Militari Recipients (1792-1992)". Federation of East European Family History Societies. Retrieved 2007-08-13.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ a b c Dunin, Elonka (June 20, 2005). "Antoni Dunin (Hr.)". Retrieved 2007-08-13.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Wojcierch Boguslawski. "Family Geneology". Retrieved 2007-08-23.
- ^ Dunin, Elonka (July 17, 2005). "Dunin Family Paintings". Retrieved 2007-08-13.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Labedz Clan Coat of Arms - Family Crest from Poland". Family-crests.com. Retrieved 2007-08-23.
- ^ "Edward Werner, Ex-vice Minister of Finance of Poland had Lectured Here". New York Times. November 17, 1945.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Template:Pl icon Juliusz S. Tym (2005). "Nadania odznaki pamiątkowej 15. pułku ułanów Poznańskich w latach 1923-1939" (pdf). Mars. 19: 98. Retrieved 2007-08-24.
{{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|month=(help); line feed character in|title=at position 29 (help) - ^ a b Template:Pl icon Juliusz Tym (2005). "Kawaleria w bitwie nad Bzurą (Cavalry in the Battle of Bzura)". Polonia Militaris. Retrieved 2007-08-24.
- ^ Jerzy Korczak, "Cóżeś ty za pani", Wydawnictwo Poznańskie, Poznań 1979, non-fiction, ISBN 8321000819, Pani Wojenka (Lady War)
- ^ "Engagement of Countess Revealed". Detroit Times. April 23, 1957.
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