Józef Bem, Polish general and physicist (born 1794)

Józef Bem

Ottoman-Polish statesman (1794–1850)

Józef Zachariasz Bem was a Polish engineer and general, an Ottoman pasha and a national hero of Poland and Hungary, and a figure intertwined with other European patriotic movements. Like Tadeusz Kościuszko and Jan Henryk Dąbrowski, Bem fought outside Poland's borders anywhere…