Jan Tyssowski

Jan Tyssowski

Jan Tyssowski (born March 8, 1811 in Tarnów , † April 5, 1857 in Washington, DC ) was one of the leaders of the Cracow uprising and from February 24 to March 2, 1846 dictator of the Polish revolutionary government.

Life

He was initially literary, then studied law and was most recently secretary and property manager in Zassaw. He was already involved in the uprising of 1830 . As a representative for Tarnów , he was one of the conspirators who decided the Kraków uprising in 1846. Along with Ludwik Gorzkowski and Aleksander Grzegorzewski, he was a member of the newly formed national government. This issued a manifesto on February 22nd, 1846 that called all Poles to arms, promised the abolition of interest and compulsory labor and announced that they would pay the freedom fighters compensation out of national goods. The Polish insurgents were under severe military pressure. Inside, there was a political split into an aristocratic-bourgeois and a democratic party. Within a very short time, the governments were replaced and Tyssowski finally took over the government as dictator. After the uprising was put down, he laid down power on March 2nd and fled to Dresden . He spoke about all of his relationships during interrogation. He was brought to North America and had to assure that he would never return to Europe. He got a public job in Washington. There he also worked for the "Deutsche Schnellpost."

literature

• Tyssowski . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 18 . Altenburg 1864, p. 100-101 ( zeno.org ).
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Tyssowski, Joseph . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 48th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1883, pp. 188–193 ( digitized version ).