Adam Jerzy Czartoryski
Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski (in German writings also Adam Georg Czartoryski ; born January 14, 1770 in Warsaw ; † July 15, 1861 in Montfermeil ) was a Polish politician , foreign minister of the Russian Empire under Alexander I and head of the Polish revolutionary government from 1830.
Life
Adam Jerzy Czartoryski belonged to the influential Polish magnate family Czartoryski , who had initially worked with Russia and the Austrian Empire at the time of the partitions of Poland , and was the son of General and Field Marshal Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski and his wife Izabella Czartoryska, née Countess von Flemming . After the failure of the Polish Kościuszko uprising in 1794, he was taken hostage at the Russian court. There he made friends with Alexander I and was his foreign minister from 1804 to 1806. He accompanied him to the Congress of Vienna and achieved that Poland received a new constitution in 1815.
On September 25, 1817, Czartoryski married Princess Anna Zofia Sapieha in Radzyń (born October 17, 1799 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye , † December 24, 1864 in Montpellier ). She was a good friend of Fryderyk Chopin , who dedicated her Krakowiak in F major for piano and orchestra op.14, composed between 1828 and 1829 . From 1831, at the beginning of Frédéric Chopin's time in Paris, the prince was an important patron of the composer.
Czartoryski was a member of the Masonic lodge Les trois frères in Warsaw . After the failure of the Polish uprising in 1830 , he had to flee Poland, the Puławy family property was confiscated, and his mother Izabella Czartoryska fled to Galicia to her daughter Maria Anna von Württemberg . First Adam Jerzy Czartoryski went to England , but then settled permanently in Paris , where he tried to work against the Austrian and Russian penetration in south-east Europe through his political contacts, in particular with English Freemasonry. The headquarters of the Czartoryski family in Paris, the Hôtel Lambert , developed into the political center of Polish emigration in Europe.
As a place of refuge for his followers, who had to flee from Poland after the failed uprising of 1830, he founded the Adampol settlement - now Polonezköy - near Istanbul in 1842 .
Czartoryski died in exile in France. In 1865 the coffin with his remains was transferred to Poland and buried in the family crypt in Sieniawa, then Austria .
literature
- Heinrich Ulmann : About the memoirs of Prince Adam Czartoryski (= scientific supplement to the course catalog of the University of Greifswald. Michaelis 1898, ZDB -ID 1220263-0 ). University of Greifswald, Greifswald 1898, ( digitized in the digital library Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania).
- Marian Kukiel: Czartoryski and European unity. 1770–1861 (= Poland's millennium series of The Kościuszko Foundation. ). Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1955.
- Paul N. Hehn: Prince Adam Czartoryski and the South Slavs . In: The Polish Review . tape 8 , 1963, ISSN 0032-2970 , pp. 76-86 , JSTOR : 25776475 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Czartoryski, Adam Jerzy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Prince Czartoryski, Adam Jerzy; Czartoryski, Adam Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian foreign minister and head of the Polish revolutionary government (1830) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 14, 1770 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw , Poland |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 15, 1861 |
| Place of death | Montfermeil , France |