Julian Klaczko

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Julian Klaczko

Julian Klaczko (born November 6, 1825 in Vilnius , † November 26, 1906 in Krakow ) was a Polish writer, publicist and politician.

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Klaczko was born as Jehuda Lejb into a Jewish family. He studied in Wilna and Koenigsberg , where he obtained a doctorate from the philosophical faculty in 1847 (dissertation topic: De rebus Franco-Gallicis saeculi XV ). He then went to Heidelberg to study with Georg Gottfried Gervinus . Gervinus made him an employee of the Deutsche Zeitung . In 1848 he stayed in Poznan for some time and published his first political pamphlet in Berlin in 1849 , an open letter entitled The German Hegemones. Open letter to Mr. Georg Gervinus . In it he expressed his disappointment with the Frankfurt National Assembly , in which in the Polish debate in July 1848 the East Prussian deputy Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Jordan had issued the slogan of "healthy people's egoism " against the Slavs. In this attitude Klaczko recognized the German "move to the east", from which the momentous expression of the German urge to the east arose.

In 1850 Klaczko went to Paris, where he made a name for himself with literary works that were published in the Revue de Paris , later in the Revue des Deux Mondes . After the death of his penniless father, Klaczko converted to Christianity and was baptized Julian Klaczko in Paris in the 1850s. In Paris he joined the Polish emigration who had settled in the Hôtel Lambert . From 1857 to 1860 he was co-editor of the monthly Wiadomosci Polskie (Polish News). His articles published there are both literary and aesthetic highlights of the Polish language, but were not allowed to appear in Russian and Prussian-occupied Poland .

In the years 1870 to 1871 he received a post in the Foreign Ministry of Austria-Hungary as a Privy Councilor and also a place in the Parliament of Galicia . He then returned to Paris to devote himself to his literary work. In 1875 he published a portrait study of Otto von Bismarck and Alexander Michailowitsch Gorchakov , wrote about Dante Alighieri and wanted to do a three-volume work on the papacy in the Renaissance, of which only the first appeared because he fell ill with paralysis in 1898 .

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  1. ↑ On this, cf. Andreas Lawaty: The end of Prussia in a Polish perspective: On the continuity of negative effects of Prussian history on German-Polish relations. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin-New York 1986, p. 24 f.
  2. ↑ See article in "Catholic Encyclopedia"
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SURNAME Klaczko, Julian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish writer, publicist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Vilna
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1906
Place of death Krakow