Agata Kornhauser-Duda

Agata Kornhauser-Duda
First Lady of Poland
Incumbent
Assumed office 6 August 2015
Preceded by	Anna Komorowska
Personal details
Born	(1972-04-02) 2 April 1972 Kraków, Poland
Spouse(s)	Andrzej Duda (m. 1994)
Children	1
Parents	Julian Kornhauser Alicja Wojna
Alma mater	Jagiellonian University
Profession	German teacher
Awards

Agata Kornhauser-Duda (born 2 April 1972), is the wife of the President of Poland, Andrzej Duda and thus the designated First Lady of Poland. She is a teacher of German by professional background.

Background and family

She was born in Kraków, the child of Julian Kornhauser, a well-known Polish-Jewish writer, translator and literary critic^[1][2] who dedicated a book of poetry to her in 1981,^[3] and Alicja Wojna, a Polonist. She has one brother, Jakub, a poet and translator.^[4]

She has been married to Andrzej Duda since 21 December 1994. Together they have one daughter, Kinga, born in 1995, a law student.^[5]

Professional career

She is a German teacher at the Jan III Sobieski High School, Kraków,^[6] where she has worked since 1998. She has been described as a demanding but fair and dedicated teacher, and during the presidential campaign only took one day off, vowing to stay with her students until the end of the school year.^[7] The school is her husband's alma mater, she herself attended its rival Bartłomiej Nowodworski High School.^[8] She wrote her dissertation on the tetralogy of Horst Bienek^[9] at the Jagiellonian University,^[10] where she and her husband met.^[11]

First Lady of Poland

She became the First Lady of Poland on 6 August 2015, when her husband became President. On 24 May 2015, he won the second round of the presidential election, achieving 51.55% of the vote against the 48.45% won by his rival, the incumbent Bronisław Komorowski.^[12] During the campaign she supported her husband by appearing in party broadcasts. In terms of her own political beliefs, she has been described as more liberal than Andrzej Duda by her brother.^[13]

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