Jerzy Buzek others. From 1997 to 2001, Buzek was a coalition Prime Minister of Poland. In 1998 he became the first laureate of the Grzegorz Palka Award and was nominated "European of the Year" by the European Union Business Chambers Forum. In 1998 he was named 'Person of the Year' by the influential Polish political weekly "Wprost". He won the award for a second time in 2009. On receiving the award again, as President of the European Parliament, he stressed that he was the first winner to be honoured for his work beyond the borders of Poland. He was the first Prime
Jan Buzek laid at a cemetery in Bystrzyca nad Olzą, in the grave of his first wife Anna, his first love. He is buried there. Jan Buzek Dr. Jan Jerzy Buzek (27 March 1874 – 24 November 1940) was a Polish physician, activist and politician from the region of Zaolzie, Czechoslovakia. Buzek was born in Końska as a son of a peasant. He graduated from primary school there, and later from the German gymnasium (high school) in Cieszyn. He later decided to study medicine at Jagiellonian University in Kraków and graduated in 1901. In 1902 he became a municipal and miners' doctor