Polányi

Polányi

Polányi, Polanyi is a surname. There have been a number of prominent individuals in the Polanyi family:

• Adolf Pollacsek (1820–1871) ∞ Zsófia Schlesinger
  • Mihály Pollacsek (March 21, 1848, Bánhegy (Dluha) - January 10, 1905), prominent member of the bourgeoisie involved in railroads
    ∞ (1881 in Warsaw) Cecília Wohl (Hungarian: Pollacsek Mihályné, Wohl Cecília, French: Cecile Wohl; 1862, Vilnius - 1939), a Lithuanian-Viennese master, Budapestian salonist, a daughter of Lithuanian Rabbi Alex Wohl
    • Laura Polanyi, later Striker (1882–1957)
    • Adolf Polányi
    • Karl Paul Polanyi (Hungarian: Polányi Károly, 1886, Vienna - 1964, Pickering, Ontario), a Hungarian-Canadian political economist and author of the The Great Transformation
      ∞ Ilona Duczyńska
      • Kari Polanyi-Levitt (born 1923, Vienna), the Emerita Professor of Economics at McGill University, Montreal
    • Sophia (Zsófia) Polányi
    • Michael Polanyi (Hungarian: Polányi Mihály, 1891, Budapest - 1976, Manchester), Hungarian chemist, philosopher of science, economist
      ∞ Magda Elizabeth Polanyi
      • John Charles Polanyi (born 1929, Berlin), Canadian Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry
    • Paul (Pál) Polányi
  • Lujza Pollacsek
    • Ervin Szabó (1877 – 1918)
  • Vilmá Pollacsek
    • Irma Seidler, early love of György Lukács
    • Ernő Seidler, founding member of the Communist Party of Hungary