Adam Zamoyski

Adam Stefan Zamoyski ( born January 11, 1949 in New York) is an American- Polish writer and historian.

Adam Zamoyski is taken from the Polish nobility Zamoyski and carries the title of Count. His parents fled in 1939 from Poland. He arrived in New York and grew up in England. He received the Downside School and Queen 's College, Oxford, where he studied modern languages ​​and history his training. He speaks Polish, Russian, Italian and French.

Zamoyski visited Poland since the 1960s and has published a number of books on the history of Poland. Besides the history of the Russian campaign of Napoleon in 1812, he also wrote a history of Poland, on the Battle of Warsaw in 1920, the Congress of Vienna, a cultural history of the time of the American Revolution in 1776 to the Paris Commune in 1871, including the romantic movement and emergence of nation-states, a biography of the last Polish king Stanisław August Poniatowski, a biography of Chopin and the Polish Air Force in World War II ( the forgotten few ).

From 2008 to 2011 he was Chairman of the Board of the Princes Czartoryski Foundation, and he is involved in the Czartoryski Museum in Krakow as a consultant.

Zamoyski is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts.

Adam Zamoyski is married to the artist Emma Sergeant and lives in London.

• Translation: Chopin: The Poet at the Piano. Edition Elke Heidenreich, C. Bertelsmann, München 2010, ISBN 978-3-570-58015-8.