Jan Adamowicz

Jan Adamowicz , actually Jan Piliński (* between 1852 and 1862, † June 27, 1908 in Tłuszcz near Warsaw ) was a Polish social activist and publicist .

Life

Jan Piliński was born between 1852 and 1862 in the Smolensk area to a noble family ( Szlachta ). He graduated from the Petersburg Forest Academy and married a Russian woman with whom he had a daughter. However, for unexplained reasons, he left his family and came to Galicia in 1899 under the name Jan Adamowicz. He then traveled to Tunis and Algiers , where he stayed for two years and did small business.

In 1901 he returned to Poland and worked in oil companies in Lemberg .

In 1903 he founded the nationalist monthly "Odrodzenie" (rebirth) in Lemberg, which was based on the ideology of the Three Bards and Stanisław Wyspiański . In January 1904, on the initiative of Adamowicz, the secret organization "Związek Odrodzenia Narodu Polskiego" (Association for the Rebirth of the Polish People) was founded, which wanted to achieve independence through the emancipation of the people and armed struggle. An autonomous district Kazimierz Wielki was established at Towarzystwo Szkoły Ludowej to work with the population . On March 1, 1904, a top secret military organization was formed under the leadership of Tadeusz Pannenka , which in 1906 counted 36 districts in Lesser Poland . Some of the weapons used there, as well as the majority of the supporters, went to the Związek Walki Czynnej (Association for Active Combat), founded in 1908 by Józef Piłsudski .

In the summer of 1904 traveled Adamowicz professionally in the Caucasus to sign up with William Henry McGarvey in Grozny to meet. When the revolution broke out there, he took Józef Pannenka to Grozne and tried to work with the Georgian revolutionaries there, but did not succeed.

In 1905 Adamowicz moved to Warsaw , where he founded the "Związek Odrodzenia Narodu Polskiego", which illegally published the text "Legion" and was radicalized. He sought the unification of a free Poland with revolutionary Russia and its supremacy among the Slavic nations. In 1906 he relocated his work to the country, where the popular script "Siewba" was published.

In 1907 he was a co-founder of the more economically oriented magazine "Zaranie".

He died on June 27, 1908. After his death, the groups of Siewba, Zaranie and a radical peasant party called "Wyzwolenie" (liberation) formed.

literature

• Irena Pannenkowa: Adamowicz Jan . In: Polski Słownik Biograficzny . tape 1 . Krakow 1935, p. 27 .