Batory Steelmill, a nongovernmental Stefan Batory Foundation, the Polish 9th Armored Cavalry Brigade, and numerous Polish streets and schools. One of the districts of the town of Chorzów is named after him. Immediately after his death, he was not fondly remembered in the Commonwealth. Many nobles took his behavior in the Zborowski affair and his domestic policies as indicating an interest in curtailing the nobility's Golden Freedoms and establishing an absolute monarchy. His contemporaries were also rankled by his favoritism toward Hungarians over nationals of the Commonwealth. He was also remembered, more trivially, for his Hungarian-style cap and saber (szabla batorówka). His later resurgence in Polish memory and historiography can be traced to the 19th-century era of partitions of Poland when the Polish state lost its independence. He was remembered for his military triumphs and praised as an effective ruler by many, including John Baptist Albertrandi, Jerzy Samuel Bandtkie, Michał Bobrzyński, Józef Szujski and others. Though some historians like Tadeusz Korzon, Joachim Lelewel and Jędrzej Moraczewski remained more reserved, in 1887, Wincenty Zakrzewski noted that Báthory is "the darling of both the Polish public opinion and Polish historians". During the interwar period in the Second Polish Republic he was a cult figure, often compared - with the government's approval - to the contemporary dictator of Poland, Józef Piłsudski. After the Second World War, in the communist People's Republic of Poland, he became more of a controversial figure, with historians more ready to question his internal politics and attachment to Hungary. Nonetheless his good image remained intact, reinforced by the positive views of a popular Polish historian of that period, Paweł Jasienica. Notes See also History of Poland (1569–1795) Muscovite wars Nyírbátor References Bibliography Winged Hussars, Radoslaw Sikora, Bartosz Musialowicz, BUM Magazine, October 2016. External links Stephen Báthory's szkofia in the National Museum in Kraków . |- |- 1533 births 1586 deaths Stephen 09 16th-century Hungarian people 16th-century Polish monarchs Burials at Wawel Cathedral Deaths from kidney disease Grand Dukes of Lithuania Hungarian nobility Hungarian Roman Catholics Monarchs of Transylvania People from Șimleu Silvaniei Polish people of Hungarian descent Polish people of the Livonian campaign of Stephen Báthory Polish Roman Catholics Voivodes of Transylvania Eastern Hungarian Kingdom University of Padua alumni