Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski
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Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski (born Sept. 3, 1921 in Lwów, Poland, now Lviv, Ukraine) is a Polish-, Belgian- and American-educated industrial engineer with 50 patents to his credit, and a lexicographer and amateur historian.
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[edit] World War II
He left Warsaw, Poland, in December 1939. He was arrested in Dukla by Ukrainians in the service of the German Gestapo and sent successively to German concentration camps in Barwinek, Krosno, Jasło, Tarnów, Oświęcim (Auschwitz), and in 1940, in Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen.
In 1945, Pogonowski began on the Brandenburg Death March from Sachsenhausen, but escaped.
[edit] Engineer
His career has included academia and practical work in the U.S. petroleum industry.
He studied engineering, and in 1954 graduated in Civil Engineering from the Catholic University: Institute Superieur de Commerce, St. Ignace in Antwerp, Belgium.
He then taught descriptive geometry at the University of Tennessee, and in 1955 graduated with an M.S. in Industrial Engineering.
Upon graduation he worked for Shell Oil Company, and then worked starting in 1960 for Texaco Research and Development as a Project Engineer.
[edit] Patents
He authored a total of 50 American and foreign patents on marine structures for the petroleum industry.
[edit] Adjunct Professor of Civil Engineering
During later years he also taught courses on marine structures of the petroleum industry in Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University as Adjunct Professor in the College of Civil Engineering.
[edit] Books
- Poland: A Historical Atlas, revised edition, New York, Hippocrene Books, 1989.
- The Jews in Poland: A Documentary History: the Rise of [the] Jews as a Nation from Congressus Judaicus in Poland to the Knesset in Israel, New York, Hippocrene Books, 1993.
- Unabridged Polish-English Dictionary, 3 volumes, New York, Hippocrene Books, 1997.
