W. J. Korab-Karpowicz was born in Gliwice, Poland in 1953.[2] He comes from a noble Polish family. Korab, included in his family name, refers to the Korab coat of arms. His grandfather Jan Korab-Karpowicz was a distinguished lawyer and cavalry officer in the pre-war Poland.[3] In his early youth he lived in Gdańsk and then in Sopot, where he completed high school. He studied engineering at the Gdańsk University of Technology, where, in 1977, he completed a master's degree in Electronic Engineering.
In 1999 he received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Oxford, for a thesis titled "The Presocratic Thinkers in the Thought of Martin Heidegger".[5] In 2014 he received his Habilitation in Philosophy at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland.
Career
In 1991 he returned to Poland and was elected Deputy Mayor of Gdańsk, 1991–1992. He founded and directed the Sopot School of Polish in 1990, the Benjamin Franklin Institute of Management in 1991, the European Foundation for the Preservation of Monuments in 1993, and the College of International Affairs in 1995. He served as a diplomat with the rank of First Secretary at the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Norway from 1998 to 2000, and acted as an ethics expert for the European Commission from 2005 to 2006.[6] In 2014 he participated in Poland's presidential elections, but did not gain sufficient support to become an official candidate.[7] In 2020 he was nominated the president in-spe (waiting for the office) by the monarchist initiative of Leh XI Wojciech Edward [8] to reestablish the Kingdom of Poland. [9]