Kazimierz Lev Sapieha

Kazimierz Lev Sapieha

Kazimierz Lew Sapieha , Lithuanian: Kazimieras Leonas Sapiega , (* July 15, 1609 in Vilnius (today: Lithuania ); † January 19, 1656 in Brest , today: Brest-Litovsk in Belarus ) was a politician from the noble Sapieha family in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in Poland-Lithuania in the 17th century.

Life

Kazimierz Lev Sapieha is the son of the Lithuanian nobleman and politician Lev Sapieha . He studied first at the Vilnius Academy of Jesuits before 1621 along with his brother Krzysztof Michał Sapieha went abroad to study. The brothers studied mainly at the University of Munich and the University of Ingolstadt . In 1624, Kazimierz Lev went back to the family estates to cure tuberculosis . He then followed his brother to Western Europe and enrolled at the University of Leuven in what is now Belgium in 1627 . The following year he went to Italy via Brussels , where he studied at the University of Bologna in 1628 and at the University of Padua in 1629 . He returned to his homeland in 1629.

Political career

At the age of 22, Kazimierz Lev became a capital clerk of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1631 and, in the same year, Royal Secretary of the Kingdom of Poland within the Federation of Poland-Lithuania . He was a member of the Sejm, convened in 1632, and part of a delegation of the Sejm that traveled to Moscow in 1635 for negotiations . In May 1637 he was made court marshal (Marszalek) of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, on March 6, 1645 to the deputy marshal of the Lithuanian part of the empire.

After the death of the Polish-Lithuanian king Władysław IV. Wasa , Kazimierz Lew was one of the four administrators of the king's estate . He was an opponent of the Calvinist magnate Janusz Radziwiłł , who together with his cousin Bogusław Radziwiłł wanted to achieve an unconstitutional separation of the Lithuanian part of the empire between 1652 and 1655. During the Swedish attack on Lithuania, he organized the resistance there. He died in Brest on the bow.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Sapieha, Kasimir Leo . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 28th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing House, Vienna 1874, p. 238 f. ( Digitized version ).