Włodzimierz Dzieduszycki

Włodzimierz Dzieduszycki

Portrait by Henryk Rodakowski (1880)
Coat of arms
Spouse(s) Countess Alfonsyna Miączyńska

Issue

Klementyna Dzieduszycka
Anna Dzieduszycka
Maria Dzieduszycka
Jadwiga Dzieduszycka
Noble family House of Dzieduszycki
Father Count Józef Kalasanty Dzieduszycki
Mother Countess Paulina Działyńska
Born (1825-08-22)August 22, 1825
Jaryszów, Partitioned Poland
Died September 18, 1899(1899-09-18) (aged 74)
Poturzyca, Partitioned Poland

Count Włodzimierz Dzieduszycki (1825–1899) was a Polish noble, landowner, naturalist, political activist, collector and patron of arts.

Włodzimierz became the first Ordynat of the Poturzyca estate. He was owner of the Poturzyca, Zarzecze, Kramarzowka, Markpol, Lachowice, Dobraczyn, Medowa, Jaryszow, Konarzewo, Gluszyn, Wiry and Szczytnik estates.[1] He was one of the first Polish magnates to replace serfdom on his estates.

Biography

He was educated in Poland and from 1840 in Göttingen and Paris. In 1846 Wlodzimierz returned to Poland.

During the Spring of Nations in 1848, he became a member of the "Council of the Nation of Lwow" (Centralna Rada Narodowa Lwowska) and pro-Polish organisation Ruski (Ruskyi) Sobor.[2][3]

He was also a member of the "Economic Society of Galicia". He supported publishing houses, spent money for scientific works and school books. In 1863 he partly financed and participated in the civil organisation of the January Uprising.

In 1881 Wlodzimierz became a member of the Polish Academy of Skills. In 1855 he founded the Dzieduszycki Museum in Lwów. The Museum included a rich natural collection, mainly ornithology, ethnography and numismatic objects and a large collection of books.

He was also co-founder of the Museum of Industry of Arts (Muzeum Przemyslu Artystycznego) in 1874 in Lwów and founder the "Hunting Society of Lesser Poland" in 1885.

Wlodzimierz became a member the Sejm in 1865, 1874, and from 1895 until 1899 and served as Sejm Marshal from March 7 until April 26, 1876. He was also a member of the Herrenhaus from 1874.

He was author of several scientific works (nature and ethnography), and from 1894 Doctor Honoris Causa of the Lwów University.

Family

Włodzimierz married countess Alfonsyna Miączyńska on 19 September 1853 in Lwów and had four children:

References

  1. ↑ http://genealogia.grocholski.pl/gd/osoba.php?id=003232
  2. ↑ David Althonen. "Natione Polonus and the Naród Szlachecki. Two Myths of National Identity and Noble Solidarity". Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung. Vol. 52, Nr 4, J.G. Herder-Institut. 2003. p. 505.
  3. ↑ Peter Brock. "Ivan Vahylevych 1811-1866 and the Ukrainian National Identity". Nationbuilding and the Politics of Nationalism: Essays on Austrian Galicia. Harvard University Press. 1982. pp. 138, 139.

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