Rafał de Weryha-Wysoczański explained

Chevalier Rafał Hugon Maria de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]} (born May 7, 1975) is a Polish art historian, genealogist and writer,^[7] who was a representative of the auction house Sotheby's.^[8]

Per the "Genealogy of the de Weryha-Wysoczański Family" pedigree he produced for the Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels in 2008,^[9] he is the only child of sculptor Jan, 6th Chevalier de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz, and nephew of Olympic Bronze Medallist and Vice World Champion in fencing Madame Ryszard Weryha-Wysoczańska-Pietrusiewicz and millionaire landowner and philanthropist Basil, 1st Chevalier de Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz.^[10]

Biography

Born in Gdynia, Poland, he was educated at the University of Hamburg and on a national merit-based scholarship^[11] at Magdalene College, Cambridge,^[12] where he became a member of the Cambridge University Heraldic and Genealogical Society.^{[13] [14]} From a long line of womanisers in his family, he became a playboy^[15] and completed his doctorate – for which he was awarded another merit scholarship – under the supervision of Leibniz laureate Professor Martin Warnke. De Weryha-Wysoczański-Pietrusiewicz is a former Delegate to the European Commission of the Nobility in Paris. Per reviews listed on his own website, reviewers of his book Strategien des Privaten noted that it has a “wise central idea” and that it “gives important food for thought”.^[16] In 2016 he published a memoir entitled A Chevalier from Poland.^[17]

Thanks to a generous handicap, he came second in the President's Race 2015 on the Cresta Run, in St. Moritz^[18] having also been a member of the Cambridge University Cresta Team in 1999.

Selected publications

• A Chevalier from Poland. The Memoirs of Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański, Kibworth Beauchamp 2016, .
• Deutsches Adelsblatt, No. 10, October 15, 2002 (Contributor).
• Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelige Häuser XXX, vol 145, Limburg an der Lahn 2008 (Contributor), .
• Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon XVI, vol 137, Limburg an der Lahn 2005 (Contributor), .
• Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon XVII, Nachträge, vol 144, Limburg an der Lahn 2008 (Contributor), .
• Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch, Adelige Häuser IV, vol 8, Marburg 2018 (Contributor), .
• Komposition als Kommunikation. Zur Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts. Festschrift Professor Peter Petersen, Frankfurt; Berlin; Bern; Bruxelles; New York; Oxford; Wien 2000 (Contributor), .
• St. Moritz Tobogganing Club, Annual Report, No. 95, 2014-2015 (Contributor).
• Strategien des Privaten. Zum Landschaftspark von Humphry Repton und Fürst Pückler, Berlin 2004, .

Notes and References

1. Listed with first name, two middle names, title of nobility and triple barrelled surname in Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch, Adelige Häuser IV, Marburg 2018, vol 8, pp. 492-493,,
2. Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelige Häuser XXX, Limburg a. d. Lahn 2008, vol 145, pp. 412-420,,
3. Listed with title of nobility in Deutsches Adelsblatt, Personelle Besetzung der Organisationen des Adels, No. 2, February 15, 2003, p. 41
4. Magdalene College Magazine, 2006-2007, p. 62
5. List of members, StMTC, Annual Report, 2007-2008, p. 336
6. Hamburger Abendblatt, Stipendium für Cambridge Universität, July 14, 1998, p. 2
7. Encyklopedia polskiej emigracji i Polonii (Encyclopedia of the Polish Emigration and of the Poles Abroad), Toruń 2005, vol V, p. 235,
8. Magdalene College Magazine, 2005-2006, p. 48
9. Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański, A Chevalier from Poland. The Memoirs of Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański, Kibworth Beauchamp 2016, p. 4,,
10. Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch, Adelige Häuser IV, Marburg 2018, vol 8, p. 497,,
11. Hamburger Abendblatt, Stipendium für Cambridge Universität, July 14, 1998, p. 2
12. Hamburger Abendblatt, Rodeln in St. Moritz, January 25, 2000, p. 10
13. http://bloggingyoungfogey.blogspot.com/2007/06/cantabian-bridesheadonism.html Called in Reflections of a Young Fogey "British academia’s finest collection of correct form adherents"
14. Whilst at Cambridge University he became inter alia also a member of the Wine and Food Society, a student dining society, named by Hugh Johnson in CAM, no 47, Lent Term 2006, p. 45, in reminiscences of the 1950s "a surprisingly serious coterie of moneyed young men"
15. Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański, A Chevalier from Poland. The Memoirs of Chevalier Rafael de Weryha-Wysoczański, Kibworth Beauchamp 2016, p. 41,, .
16. https://www.deweryhawysoczanski.com/book Webpage of the book Strategien des Privaten. Zum Landschaftspark von Humphry Repton und Fürst Pückler
17. https://de-weryha-art.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/A-Chevalier-from-Poland-Reviews-1.pdf A Chevalier from Poland
18. http://www.cresta-run.com/uploads/tx_cal/media/150221_President___Splits.pdf StMTC Results of the President's Race 2015