Baworowski (noble family)
Baworowski is a Polish noble family.
history
The first mention takes place on July 27, 1779 with Viktor Ignatius Alois Baworowski and his brother Matthias Baworowski. They were descended from Wenzel Baworowski, who was knighted in Galicia in 1775.
Josef Graf Baworowski (1822–1885) was appointed by the emperor on September 20, 1879 to the manor house , the upper house of the Austrian Imperial Council. As one of 64 counts, the family had a hereditary seat. The seat was taken after him by his son Emil Graf Baworowski (1864–1908) on April 22, 1889, followed by his brother Rudolf Graf Baworowski (1865–1931) on April 24 September 1909.
Another well-known representative of the family was the Polish-Austrian tennis player Count Adam Baworowski (born August 9, 1913 in Vienna, † early 1943 in Stalingrad), who played at the French Open and Wimbledon .
Possessions
The foundation was best known through Count Viktor Baworowski (1826–1894), a great collector of books and literature, who translated works by Lord Byron and Victor Hugo into Polish. Baworowski owned an extensive art collection and a private library with over 60,000 volumes in his palace in Lemberg .
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literature
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : German count houses of the present. In heraldic, historical and genealogical relation. Volume 3: A-Z. Weigel, Leipzig 1854, p. 12 f.
- Sławomir Górzyński: Arystokracja polska w Galicji. Study heraldyczno-genealogiczne. Wydawnictwo DiG, Warsaw 2009, ISBN 978-83-7181-597-3 , pp. 88-89.