a spontaneous protest by young Poles against conscription into the Russian Army and was soon joined by various politicians and high ranking Polish officers from the tsarist army. While the uprising failed militarily, it did succeed in blunting the effect of the Tsar's abolition of serfdom in the Russian partition. Kazimiera was captured and imprisoned by the Russian authorities, and her father was imprisoned in the citadel at Warsaw, where he later died. Żorawski had five siblings, one of whom, Stanislaw, became proprietor of the Obrebiec Estate, near Przasnysz. In 1940, his property was seized by the Nazis and Stanislaw was arrested and interned at the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, where he died. Żorawski fell in with love with the family governess, Maria Skłodowska (later better known as Marie Curie), whose father was a relative of the Żorawskis. The two discussed marriage, but Żorawski's parents rejected Maria due to her family's poverty. Nevertheless, their hopes of marriage continued until 1891, when a dispirited Maria moved to Warsaw and then to Paris, where she eventually married Pierre Curie and earned two Nobel prizes. Żorawski married Leokadia Jewniewicz, a well-known pianist. Her father, Hipolit, was a professor at the Institute of Technology in St. Petersburg, specializing in applied mathematics. One of his works, "The Theory of Elasticity", was published posthumously in Warsaw in 1910. Żorawski and his wife had three children: Juliusz, Leokadia, and Maria. Juliusz became a well-known architect, often compared with Le Corbusier; after World War II he was a professor of architecture at the Kraków Polytechnic. See also List of Poles References Żorawski biography (In Polish) Zaremba biography W.Ślebodziński, Kazimierz Żorawski [in Polish], [in:] Studia z dziejów katedr Wydziału Matematyki, Fizyki, Chemii Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, S.Gołąb ed.,Kraków 1964, 87–101. Curie bio External links Biography (in Polish) The Mathematics Genealogy Project – Franciszek Leja 1866 births 1953 deaths People from Maków County University of Warsaw alumni Jagiellonian University alumni Academic staff of the Warsaw University of Technology 19th-century Polish mathematicians 20th-century Polish mathematicians Commanders of the Order of Polonia Restituta Recipients of the Gold Cross of Merit (Poland) Rectors of the Jagiellonian University