LAWYERS from Poland

Top 2

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Polish Lawyers of all time. This list of famous Polish Lawyers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

1. Ewald Georg von Kleist (1700 - 1748)

With an HPI of 58.39, Ewald Georg von Kleist is the most famous Polish Lawyer.  His biography has been translated into 22 different languages on wikipedia.

Ewald Georg von Kleist (c. 1700–1748), also known as Ewald Jürgen von Kleist, was the inventor of the Leyden jar. A member of the von Kleist family, Ewald was born in Wicewo in Farther Pomerania. His father was district administrator Ewald Joachim von Kleist (1657–1716). He studied jurisprudence at the University of Leipzig and the University of Leyden and may have started his interest in electricity at the latter university under the influence of Willem 's Gravesande. From 1722–1745 or 1747 he was dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Kamień Pomorski, in the Kingdom of Prussia, after which he became president of the royal court of justice in Koszalin. He was a member of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin. On 11 October 1745 he independently invented the Kleistian jar, which could store electricity in large quantities. He communicated this discovery to a group of Berlin scientists in late 1745, and the news was transferred in a confused form to Leyden University where it was further investigated. This became more commonly known as the Leyden jar after 's Gravesande's graduate student Pieter van Musschenbroek of Leyden.

2. Peter Yorck von Wartenburg (1904 - 1944)

With an HPI of 53.21, Peter Yorck von Wartenburg is the 2nd most famous Polish Lawyer.  His biography has been translated into 17 different languages.

Peter Graf Yorck von Wartenburg (13 November 1904 – 8 August 1944) was a German jurist and a member of the German Resistance against Nazism. He studied law and politics in Bonn and Breslau from 1923 to 1926, gaining his doctorate in Breslau in 1927 and passing the civil service entrance examination for lawyers in Berlin in 1930. He married Marion Winter that same year.