Jacek Rybiński

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Jacek Rybiński (born February 28, 1701 in Tortschyn , † April 15, 1782 in Danzig ) was a Polish Cistercian , politician and abbot of the Oliva monastery .

Life

Józef Jacek (= Hyacinth) Rybiński from Tortschyn in the Ukraine (then Poland-Lithuania ), studied at the Jesuit college in Old Scotland near Gdansk and became secretary to the Lithuanian chancellor. In 1729 he probably entered the Oliva Abbey and studied theology and canon law in Rome and Prague. On April 8, 1740, he succeeded his predecessor Franciszek Mikołaj Zaleski to the abbot chair of Oliva.

Tirelessly active in politics, Abbot Rybinski was a friend of Józef Wybicki and Jerzy August Mniszech and a supporter of the Bar Confederation . He was on the side of King August III. and appeared against the Czartoryskis' Familia .

Oliwa Abbey was particularly prosperous in its time. The fortune was sufficient to build the abbot's palace in Oliva between 1754 and 1756, which has been preserved to this day, and to create the surrounding park over the next few years. In addition, the construction of the main organ in the abbey church , which was considered to be the largest organ in the world, began in 1763 with the participation of around 20 to 25 Cistercian monks .

When King Friedrich II of Prussia in the course of the First Partition of Poland in 1772, Polish Prussia took possession of the property under the name West Prussia and the spiritual foundations took over the administration and usufruct of their goods, Rybinski received a pension and was allowed to stay in the abbey. The construction of the organ ran into financial difficulties, which prevented the prospectus from being gilded.

After Rybiński's death, King Friedrich II gave the abbey to Prince Karl von Hohenzollern-Hechingen . His tombstone is in the abbey church.

literature

  • Edmund Cieślak: Historia Gdańska, Tom III 1655-1793. Gdańsk: Zakład historii Gdańska i dziejów morskich Polski, 1993. ISBN 83-215-3251-9 .
  • Franciszek Mamuszka: Oliwa: Okruchy z dziejów, zabytki. Gdańsk: Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza, 1985. ISBN 83-03-00938-9 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to en.wikipedia.org
personal data
SURNAME Rybiński, Jacek
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish Cistercian, abbot of the Oliva monastery
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1701 (uncertain)
PLACE OF BIRTH Tortschyn
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1782
Place of death Danzig