Józef Pawlikowski
Józef Pawlikowski (* 1767 near Piotrków, † 1829 in Warsaw ) was a Polish Jacobin publicist.
Pawlikowski studied law at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and set up as a lawyer in Warsaw. He took an active part in the Kościuszko uprising and, after its collapse, fled first to Belgium, then to Paris, where he worked as secretary for Tadeusz Kościuszko . On August 22, 1795 he signed the founding charter of Deputacja Polska , an exile organization of the Polish independence movement. Only after the Congress of Vienna did Pawlikowski return to Warsaw. In 1821 he joined the independence organization Narodowe Towarzystwo Patriotyczne . He was arrested in 1826 and died in a Warsaw prison in early 1828.
In addition to the treatises O poddanych polskich (1788) and Myśli polityczne dla Polski (1790), Pawlikowski wrote the political pamphlet Polacy wybić się mogą na niepodległość? (Can the Poles fight for their independence?), Which appeared anonymously in Paris in 1800 and was initially attributed to Kościuszko or General Karol Kniaziewicz . Due to a denunciation, this first edition of the book was confiscated in France, but it was reprinted several times during the November Uprising and afterwards and developed into a kind of catechism of Polish patriotism.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pawlikowski, Józef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish Jacobin author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1767 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | at Piotrków |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1829 |
| Place of death | Warsaw |