Leonard Chodźko

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Leonard Borejko Chodźko (1800–1871) was a Polish historian, geographer, cartographer, publisher, archivist, and activist of Poland's post-November-1830-Uprising Great Emigration.

Leonard Chodźko
Coat of armsKościesza
Born(1800-11-06)6 November 1800
Oborek
Died12 March 1871(1871-03-12) (aged 70)
Poitiers, France
BuriedPoitiers, France
FamilyChodźko
FatherLudwik Chodźko
MotherWaleria née Dederko

Life

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He was born on November 6, 1800, in Oborek, as the son of the nobleman Ludwik Chodźko [pl] and Waleria née Dederko.[1] Chodźko was educated at the University of Vilnius, where he was a member of the Philomaths, a secret organization established in 1816 by Vilnius University students including Adam Mickiewicz, Tomasz Zan and Józef Jeżowski.[2]

From 1826 he lived in Paris. During France's July 1830 Revolution, he served as aide-de-camp to General La Fayette.

Around 1810, he married Olimpia Maleszewska, the daughter of the Polish economist Piotr Maleszewski [pl], who in turn was the natural son of Michał Jerzy Poniatowski, the Primate of Poland and the brother of King Stanisław August Poniatowski.[1] Olimpia's mother was Jeanne Venture de Paradis, known as "the Egyptian," the daughter of the French orientalist Jean Michel de Venture de Paradis.[3] Leonard and Olimpia had no offspring.[3]

Works

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  • Histoire des légions polonaises en Italie (1829)
  • Histoire populaire de la Pologne (1863)
  • Les Polonais en Italie (1829)
  • Tableau de la Pologne ancienne et moderne sous le rapport géographique, statistique, géologique etc. (1830)
  • Histoire politique de la Lituanie, depuis la réunion de la Pologne en 1386, jusqu’à son insurrection en 1831 (1831)
  • Biographie du géneral Kościuszko (1837)
  • Massacres de Galicie et Cracovie confisquée par l'Autriche en 1846 (1861)
  • Un évêque polonais, le métropolitain Kazimir Gaspard Colonna Cieciszewski et son temps (1745-1831) (1866)
  • Recueil des traités, conventions, actes diplomatiques etc. relatifs à la Pologne, de 1762 á 1862.
  • Notice biographique sur Joachim Lelewel ; Paris, 1834
  • Le Congrès de Vienne et les traités de 1815, précédés et suivis des actes diplomatiques qui s'y rattachent ; 1863 / 1864 ; éditeur : Amyot ; Paris ; 4 vol.

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ a b "Leonard Chodźko h. Kościesza". wielcy.pl. Retrieved 2024-10-21.
  2. ^ "Filomaci," Encyklopedia Polski, p. 164.
  3. ^ a b "Wielka Genealogia Minakowskiego - M.J. Minakowski". wielcy.pl. Retrieved 2024-10-21.
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