Mickiewicz is a Polish form of the Belarusian surname Mickievič. Унбегаун Б. Русские фамилии / Пер. с англ. Общ. ред. Б. А. Успенского. — М.: Прогресс, 1989. — C. 232. — . Original: Boris Unbegaun, Russian surnames. — Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972, p. 303. It corresponds to Lithuanianized: Mickevičius, and Belarusian, Russian: Mitskevich. Notable people with this surname include:
Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855), Polish poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator, professor of Slavic literature, and political activist, regarded as national poet in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus Denis Mickiewicz (born 1929), professor emeritus of Russian Literature at Duke University and the founding conductor of the Yale Russian Chorus Jacek Mickiewicz (born 1970), Polish road racing cyclist Maria Mickiewicz (born 1984), Polish chess master Matt Mickiewicz (born 1983), internet entrepreneur Mieczysław Mickiewicz (1879–1939), Ukrainian politician and lawyer of Polish descent, statesman of the Second Polish Republic
See also Mickiewicz (crater), on Mercury 5889 Mickiewicz, a minor planet List of things named after Adam Mickiewicz
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