polish activists
Aleksander Zawadzki (activist)
1859 births | 1926 deaths | people from vilnius | polish activists | polish publicists | political activistsAleksander Zawadzki, pseudonym Ojciec Prokop, (1859–1926) was a Polish political and educational activist, publicist.
Zawadzki was a member of the Liga Polska, Liga Narodowa (1893–1908), a Main Board of the Stronnictwo Narodowo-Demokratyczne (National-Democratic Party; 1905–1907), Macierz Szkolna Królestwa Polskiego (1905–1908), Zjednoczenie Ludowe (1917–1918), founder of the Związek Nauczycieli Szkół Ludowych (1905), founder and President of the Narodowy Związek Chłopski (1912).
Wacław Michał Zaleski
1799 births | 1849 deaths | people from galicia | polish activists | polish folklorists | polish poets | polish theatre critics | polish translators | polish writersWacław Michał Zaleski (September 18, 1799 in Olesko, eastern Galicia – February 24, 1849 in Vienna), pseudonym Wacław from Olesko (Wacław z Oleska), was a Polish poet, writer, researcher of folklore (folklorist), theatre critic, political activist, governor of Galicia (1848).
Zaleski collected and published in Lviv Pieśni polskie i ruskie ludu galicyjskiego [Polish and Russian songs of Galician nation] (1833), which contained about 1500 works, including 160 with piano accompaniment composed by Karol Lipiński. It was largest collection of folk-songs published in Poland before Oskar Kolberg.
Ksawery Zakrzewski
1876 births | 1915 deaths | polish activists | polish physicians | scouting in polandKsawery Faustyn Ignacy Zakrzewski (February 15, 1876 in Wełna [now Goślinowo] – November 18, 1915 in Poznań) was a Polish physician, indenpendence activist, director of Poznań's Polish Gymnastic Society "Falcon", co-editor of biweekly magazine Sokół, co-founder (with Marian Seyda) of magazine Kurier Poznański. According to Bernard Chrzanowski, Zakrzewski was an initiatior and co-creator of scouting in Greater Poland. He was one of the main organiser of Polish scouting during Prussian Partition.
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