IS SWAROVSKI POLISH?

The Austrian crystal maker was born in Bohemia, now Czech Republic. Any Polish ancestry in him? The name does sound fairly Polish. For example my last name, Rychlik, is common in both Czech Republic and Poland. But I'm 100% Polish.

because of the "ski"?


Polish or not, I like and own the bling bling... ;)

I can remember my mom telling my about his glass or something and that's what she likes about Poland for instance, having a lot of his glass. No idea if he has any Polish ancestry or not but. His glass is here no? :)

in Norway? Probably...

For what its worth, there are quite a few Poles who have non-Polish names because of Poland's historical frequent border changes.

There are Poles who have Austrian, German, Russian and other types of names.

Seeing as his name includes a letter which doesn't exist in Polish, it's unlikely he is Polish.

Czechs used the letter "w" in their spelling (not any more). He was born in Bohemia, his name could easily be Czech, why would you assume he was Polish? I guess he was Austrian with a Czech ancestor or two somewhere along the way (there are lots of Austrians with typically Czech surnames).

Is seeing that General August Emil Fieldorf's name doesn't sound Polish, you know very well that he was.

I'm sure Swarovski, like many Austrians, wished he were Polish.

and that would be because...?

...as Torq pointed out, it is like winning the lottery of life. I'm not saying that all Austrians are smutne chuje.

Heh:)

Wishful thinking! ;)

OK. if you are not saying it... I have no need to move the post.

SWAROWSKI: possibly Polish spelling of topo nick from Czech locality of Svarov; Czech spelling Svarocsky

What is strange in his name that it is not written SWAROWSKI or SVAROVSKI. The -ski is clearly a Polish root. Maybe Polonius3 can help on this one.

1. It's not a root. It's an ending.
2. Many Slavonic languages have surnames ending in -ski /-sky.

Isn't he Jewish?

Svarowski was an Austrian-born citizen of ethnic CZECH, not Jewish, extraction.

The wikipedia says "Daniel Swarovski was born in northern Bohemia (now the Czech Republic), 20 km (12 miles) from the current border with Poland" so his name has clearly Polish origin and would be written in contemporary Poland as Swarowski hrough w an v. But his political party at wiki is also declared as the Nazi Party en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Swarovski so he had two be sure that as Austrian by legal citizenship first he was not considered none German national after the unification of Austria with German Reich called Anschluss en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anschluss because he would in danger of even being killed. Clearly Polish nationals were not well seen in Hitler's Nazi Party.

@mkk

Ignore the geographical history of Europe and remember how the central European nations had a long history of mixing.
Swarovski was Austrian, through and through.