Wladyslaw Tomasz Rawicz-Ostrowski (1790[2]-1869[3]) was a Polish nobleman (szlachcic) and Count since 1798.

Władysław Ostrowski
Coat of armsRawicz
Born(1790-03-07)7 March 1790
Warsaw, Poland
Died21 November 1869(1869-11-21) (aged 79)
Kraków, Poland
Noble familyOstrowski
ConsortKlementyna Sanguszko
FatherTomasz Adam Ostrowski[1]
MotherApolonia Ledóchowska

Wladyslaw was officer of the horse artillery in the army of the Duchy of Warsaw.[4] He was awarded with the Virtuti Militari in 1809 after the Battle of Raszyn and with the Légion d'honneur order for Napoleon's Russian Campaign from 1812 to 1813.[5]

He left the army after Napoleon's defeat. Later he tried his skills in poetry (he translated Lord Byron's poems[6]). In December 1830 he was elected the Marshal of the Sejm of the Kingdom of Poland[7] and served until the end of the national November Uprising of 1830–1831. In emigration he became an activist of Hotel Lambert. Interned by the Austrians he spent most of his life in Graz and in 1861 was allowed to settle down in Kraków.

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  1. ^ Jędruch, Jacek (1982). Constitutions, Elections, and Legislatures of Poland, 1493-1977: A Guide to Their History. University Press of America. p. 283. ISBN 978-0-8191-2509-5. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
  2. ^ Grabieński, Władysław (1906). Dzieje narodu polskiego (in Polish). W. Grabieński. p. 475. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
  3. ^ Chodźko, Leonard (1871). Historya domu Rawitów-Ostrowskich, związana z dziejami Polski, Litwy, Prus i Rusi, składających Rzeczpospolitę polską, miedzy latami 1190-1650 (in Polish). Krystyn Ostrówski. p. I. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
  4. ^ "Władysław Tomasz Ostrowski h. Rawicz". www.ipsb.nina.gov.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 27 February 2024.
  5. ^ Napoleon Wielka Armia Polacy (PDF). Zamek Krolewski Na Wawelu. 2012. p. 33. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
  6. ^ Cardwell, Richard A. (2004). The Reception of Byron in Europe. A&C Black. p. 306. ISBN 978-0-8264-6844-4. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
  7. ^ Chodźko, Leonard (1871). Historya domu Rawitów-Ostrowskich, związana z dziejami Polski, Litwy, Prus i Rusi, składających Rzeczpospolitę polską, miedzy latami 1190-1650 (in Polish). Krystyn Ostrówski. p. LXXIII. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
Predecessor
Józef Gabriel Lubowidzki
  Sejm Marshal of the Estates
  Successor
Leon Sapieha
(as Sejm Marshal of the Diet of Galicia)