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2 unusual facts about Józef Retinger


Józef Retinger

His father, Józef Stanisław Retinger, was the personal legal counsel and adviser to Count Władysław Zamoyski.

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Financed by Count Zamoyski, Retinger attended the Sorbonne in 1906, and was the youngest person ever to earn a Ph.D. there, in 1908 at the age of twenty, before his move to England in 1911, where his closest friend was fellow Pole, Joseph Conrad.



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