Ignacy Hilary Ledóchowski
Ignacy Hilary Count Ledóchowski (born January 13, 1789 in Krupa , † March 29, 1870 in Klimontów ) was a general from the Polish count family Ledóchowski and commander of the fortress Modlin .
Life
Ignacy Hilary Ledóchowski was born as the son of Anton Ledóchowski (* 1755, † 1835), the first Count Ledóchowski, in the village of Krupa in what is now western Ukraine. Ignacy attended the Theresian Academy in Vienna and then began his military career at the Military Academy for Engineers in Mödling . In 1808 he became an officer under Archduke Karl . Accordingly, he fought with the Austrian troops against Napoleon and was captured by the French in Regensburg . Thereupon he entered French service in 1810 as a member of the army of the newly formed Duchy of Warsaw . He was a committed supporter of Napoleon's reforms and was awarded the cross of the French Legion of Honor ( Légion d'honneur ) after an injury .
On July 12, 1821 he married Ludowika Górska (* May 18, 1797, † June 16, 1833). After the conversion of the Duchy of Warsaw into the Congress of Poland , led by Russia , in 1828 he became colonel and commander of the Warsaw arsenal. Like his father, Ignacy Hilary Ledóchowski campaigned for the independence of Poland. He took part in the Polish November Uprising in 1830 and, with his many years of military experience, took over the defense of the Modlin Fortress as brigadier general and commander . It was not until October 9, 1831, as one of the last Polish bulwarks, that it had to capitulate in the face of Russian superiority.
But even after the failure or the bloody suppression of the uprising, he acted against Russian rule. However, in order to save himself from the threat of deportation to Siberia , he and his family had to go to Austria in 1843 , where he settled near Loosdorf . In 1855 he returned to occupied Poland and went to the Dominican monastery in Klimontów in Galicia, Austria . He died here on March 29, 1870. His son was Antoni August Ledóchowski and his grandson Ignacy Kazimierz Ledóchowski , who also became a Polish general.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Ledochowski-Halka, Ignaz Graf . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 14th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1865, p. 303 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Text about the Ledóchowski family ( memento of November 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
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| SURNAME | Ledóchowski, Ignacy Hilary |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ledóchowski, Ignacy Hilary Graf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish general and in command of the Modlin Fortress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 13, 1789 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Krupa |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 29, 1870 |
| Place of death | Klimontów |