[1] Raised in a middle-class family, he attended high schools in Lwów, Vienna and Kraków, where he joined the Cadet Corps and in 1919 graduated.

Between 1937 and 1939 he completed the technical course for aviation officers in Warsaw, creating a prototype of the first Polish barrage balloon.

In the 1933 Gordon Bennett Cup, which took place in United States, Hynek, with Burzyński as his co-pilot, won the competition, flying 1361 km in Kosciuszko from Chicago to Aulmes in Canada in 39 hours and 39 minutes.

In the 1935 Gordon Bennett Cup, Burzyński and new teammate W. Wysocki took first place with a flight of 1650 km, a world record for distance, landing at Tishkino, USSR, near Kazan 57 hours and 54 minutes after takeoff.

In the fall of 1938 Burzyński planned to fly in the Gwiazda Polski, but the takeoff did not take place due to fire.

During the Polish September Campaign, Burzyński was caught by the Germans and kept in a POW camp from 6 October 1939 until 1 April 1945.