Agaton Giller

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Agaton Giller

Agaton Giller (born January 9, 1831 in Opatówek , Poland , † July 12, 1887 in Stanisławów , Galicia ) was a Polish historian , publicist and freedom fighter. He and his brother Stefan Giller played an important role in the Polish national movement .

Life

At the time of Agaton Gillers, Congress Poland was under Russian sovereignty. Because of his patriotic activities, Agaton Giller was exiled to Siberia from 1854 to 1860. He became the first biographer of the Poles exiled to Siberia. During the January uprising in 1863, Giller was a member of the National Congress.

After the failure of the movement, Giller first fled to the Kingdom of Saxony , where he published the newspaper Ojczyzna (Fatherland). Under pressure from the Russian government, he had to leave Saxony in 1864. Like so many political refugees of his time, he found refuge in liberal Switzerland. So that his newspaper Ojczyzna could continue to appear, Giller founded a printing company in Bendlikon ( Kilchberg municipality , Canton Zurich). In 1867 he moved to Paris, where he published the Kurier Paryski (Parisian courier).

In 1870 Giller returned to Galicia, which was part of Austria-Hungary . He wrote numerous treatises on Polish history and biographical articles on personalities in the Polish struggle for freedom. The "National Polish Association" in the USA named Agaton Giller their "spiritual father". After he had called for Austria-Hungary to go to war with Great Britain and Turkey against Russia in order to liberate the Vistula government , he was expelled from the country in 1878. For the second time he went to Switzerland. There he worked in the Polish Museum in Rapperswil (Canton St. Gallen). After two years he was able to return to Galicia; in Stanisławów he settled.

Agaton Giller died in Stanisławów in 1887. His grave was reburied in the closed cemetery in Stanisławów in 1980. Today his bones rest in the Powązki Cemetery in Warsaw .

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  1. ^ A b Halina Florkowska-Frančić: Agaton Giller. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 11, 2007 , accessed July 9, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Giller Agaton . In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 . Vol. 1: A - Glä . Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1957, p. 440.
personal data
SURNAME Giller, Agaton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish historian, publicist and freedom fighter
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Opatówek , Poland
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1887
Place of death Stanisławów , Galicia