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Piotr Szczęsny (born 1963 in Białystok, † October 29, 2017 in Warsaw) was a Polish chemist and a Mensa International member. He studied chemistry at Jagiellonian University and became a member of the Independent Students' Union. He worked in the 1980s in the union federation "Solidarność".

After graduation, he remained as an assistant at the university, began his doctoral thesis. After 1989, he left the university and became co-founder of a publishing house, which edited manuals on chemistry. For ten years, he held the post of Chairman of a Society for Continuing Vocational Training. He worked as a consultant on business issues. In 2016 he closed his company.

He burned himself as a sign of political protest.

Matthias Pfenninger (* 1739 in Zurich, † February 12, 1813 ibid) was a Swiss draftsman and engraver.

Around 1757 Pfenninger became a pupil with Johann Rudolf Holzhalb in Zurich, then with Emmanuel Eichel in Augsburg. After the apprenticeship he went to Paris, where he created copperplates for Philipp Jakob Loutherbourg the Elder and Christian von Mechel.

After returning home to Switzerland, he created views of Swiss attractions for Johann Ludwig Aberli and the Bernese book printer and publisher Abraham Wagner. After 1770 he created as a freelance artist engravings with views and portraits of well-known people.

<!-- He was born as the son of an officer in the 1st Regiment of Podhale Rifles, major Andrzej Wójcik. At the beginning of Second World War, in September 1939, together with his mother and brother Marian, he was evacuated to Lwów and then returned to Nowy Sącz. After the war, the Wójcik family lived in Boguszów in the Sudeten Mountains.

In 1955 he graduated from the Cinematography Department at the National Film School in Łódź and began working in the "Kadr" film team. He received his diploma in 1964. In 1956 he worked as a second cameraman under the direction of Jerzy Lipman on the pictures for Andrzej Wajda's "Kanał".

He made his debut as an independent cameraman in Andrzej Munk's "Eroica" (1958). Then he carried out, among others cinematography for Andrzej Wajda's "Ashes and Diamonds" (1958), "Mother Joan of the Angels" (1961) and "Pharaoh" (1966) by Jerzy Kawalerowicz, "Westerplatte" (1967) by Stanisław Różewicz and "The Deluge" (1973) by Jerzy Hoffman, and finally "Angel in the Closet" (1987) by Stanisław Różewicz.

In the years 1968-1970 he collaborated with Yugoslavian directors. He directed two feature films - The Complaint (1991) and "The Gates of Europe", (1999) - to which he also wrote scripts. In the years 1976-1985 he also worked as a television director - he created several performances of the TV theater, among others "Joan of Arc" (1976) and "Report" (1977). He is the author of scripts for the TV theater and the "Adequate Theater".

He is a professor of film art. In the years 1981-1982 he lectured in cinematography at the Faculty of Radio and Television of the University of Silesia in Katowice, and from 1982 he lectured at the Cinematography Department of the National Film School in Łódź, initially as an associate professor, from 1988 as ordinary professor.

He has been awarded many times for his work, including Officer's Cross (1998) and Commander's Cross (2005) of the Order of Polonia Restituta, the "Vitae Valor" prize for lifetime achievement at the 3rd Film Festival "Vitae Valor" in Tarnów (2003), Lifetime Achievement Award for "Golden Camera 300" at the International Manaki brothers Film Festival in Bitola in Macedonia (1999).

He is the honorary chairman of the Association of Film Image Designers.

In 2006, he published the book 'Labyrinth of Light", containing his thoughts and professional memories, in 2017. "The Art of Film" - a collection of lectures delivered in the years 2000-2003 at the University of Warsaw.

His wife was the actress Magda Teresa Wójcik, his son is a physicist, set designer and poster artist Tomasz Wójcik.