![]() ![]() ![]() Although Karel Kryl came from Ostrava and spoke very good Polish, he was not a native speaker so Alfred Znamierowski corrected and translated some of his song lyrics. There he also made a friend with a Czech singer and songwriter Karel Kryl. Next he moved to Munich, Bavaria, where he started to work as an redactor of Polish section of Radio Free Europe. In 1965 he was given the opportunity to go to Italy and then to France, where in 1966 he gained the status of political refugee. His views and thinking were not formed by his communist father but by his grandfather Czeslaw Znamierowski, a Polish jurist, sociologist, and professor of philosophy at the University of Poznan.Īlfred Znamierowski studied geography at Warsaw University. He also worked in the field of politics and culture he was also a journalist.Īlfred Znamierowski was born on 21 June 1940 in the then-General Government of Warsaw. ![]() Apart from vexillology, he was one of the world leading heraldists and sphragists. With deep pain in our hearts, we announce that on October 23, 2019, at about 1:00 a.m., nowadays the best vexillologist in the world, Alfred Znamierowski, died at the age of 79 in Prague, the Czech Republic. ![]()
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