Marek Jerzy Minakowski

Who is Marek Jerzy Minakowski?

Marek Jerzy Minakowski is a Polish philosopher, historian and genealogist, author of the "Wielka genealogia". Graduated from the Jagiellonian University with the dissertation Formal Logic before Aristotle which was the result of collecting all traces of the use of formal logic in Greek writing prior to 350 BC. Being 26 years old, he was one of the youngest PhDs in Cracow.

Soon before graduation, in 1997, Minakowski accepted an editorial post at OptimusNet, where he built the leading Polish financial site, OnetBiznes, which by the end of the year 2000 turned to be a most-read source of financial information in Poland. Later, he switched to search business, as a director of Search at Onet.pl.

With this double background, Minakowski was able to cope with his idée fixe and started building the genealogical database of the whole Polish historical élites.

For the beginning, Minakowski prepared the densely tagged XML edition of Adam Boniecki's Herbarz Polski. The edition is available at CD-ROM since 2003.