Stanisław Szczepanowski

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Stanisław Szczepanowski (1846–1900) was a Polish economist, engineer, businessman, and politician. Deputy to parliaments of Austria and Galicia.

Stanisław Szczepanowski
Born	(1846-12-12)December 12, 1846 Kosten, Grand Duchy of Posen
Died	October 31, 1900(1900-10-31) (aged 53) Bad Nauheim, Hesse-Nassau
Occupation(s)	economist, engineer, businessman, and politician
Relatives	Marian Smoluchowski (nephew)

Szczepanowski was born in 1846 in the Duchy of Posen (Poznań), in what was then Prussia. As a youth, he worked with his father (an engineer) in Hungary, studied in Vienna, traveled through western Europe, including Strasbourg and Northern Italy, and dreamed of contributing to an industrialized and modern Polish economy. "My dream was to become a Polish Cavour," he remarked, in reference to the prime minister of unified Italy.

For almost a decade starting in March 1869, he lived and worked in London for the British India Office. In 1873, he visited Austrian Galicia but returned to London and accepted British citizenship. After his return to Galicia, he became a leading figure in the Austrian oil industry.

References

• integration of Szczepanowski's bio and ideas in the wider Central and Eastern European context of the time in Raluca Goleșteanu-Jacobs, 'Democrats and socialists: Ideologues and practitioners of socioeconomic development in Habsburg Galicia and the Romanian Kingdom' and 'Epilogue-Modernisation and Westernisation-Habsburg Galicia and Romanian Kingdom's guide for development -1866-1914'-Chapter IV and V (pp. 194-282) in Habsburg Galicia and the Romanian Kingdom Sociocultural Development, 1866–1914, Routledge, 2023