Mathias Mielżyński

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Mathias Mielżyński

Matthias Joseph Franz Graf von Brudzewo-Mielżyński (born September 15, 1799 with Winna Góra , Schroda district , † March 5, 1870 in Kaźmierz ) was a Polish landowner and politician.

Live and act

Mielzynski came from the wealthy magnate family Mielżyński in Greater Poland , who in 1798 was raised to the Prussian count status. His parents were Joseph and Frances Niemojowski. Mielżyński was with Constanze, b. Countess Mielżyńska (1799–1844), a distant cousin, married and had seven children. The eldest son was Josef , who later became a member of the manor .

Mielżyński received private tuition and attended a school in Berlin. In his youth he had repeatedly taken part in separatist national Polish actions and had therefore come into conflict with the Prussian judiciary. So he took part in the Polish uprising in 1830 under the command of Dezydery Chłapowski . After the collapse, Mielżyński lived briefly in exile and had to serve a nine-month prison sentence and a heavy fine on his return.

Mielżyński had at a young age by his father many goods in the county Bomst , Posen east of it, as well as in Congress Poland inherited. He was the landowner on Köbnitz , Dombrowo, Goscieczyn, Blocko, Woyciechowo, all districts of Bomst, Kotowo, Wozniki, district of Buk as well as on Pczyzinia, Kazmierz in Congress Poland. After the takeover, he devoted himself to improving the cultivation on his estates based on the model of Chłapowski.

In addition, Mielżyński remained politically active and committed to the interests of the Polish minority in Prussia, the preservation of the Polish language and culture and was thus in opposition to the Prussian administration in the provincial administration and the central government.

In 1848 he was a member of the National Committee that negotiated the reorganization of the Grand Duchy of Poznan with the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV . Since 1849 he was a member of the state parliament , where he was co-founder and from 1856 to 1858 chairman of the Polish parliamentary group. Since 1855 he was a member of the Prussian mansion on presentation of the Count Association of the Province of Posen.

family

In 1862 he divided his property in Prussia among his sons and moved to his property in the Kingdom of Poland . As early as 1861 he had given up his manor house. After the failed January uprising , he wrote memoirs, including a. about the November uprising of 1831, which was published after his death.

His grandson Mathias von Brudzewo-Mielzynski (1869–1944) was the Polish leader in the Third Polish Uprising in Upper Silesia (1921),

Works

  • Epizod z wojny 1831 roku opowiedziany wg broszury Macieja Mielżyńskiego , Poznan 1897.
  • Wyprawa na Litwę opowiedziana według zapisków Macieja Mielżyńskiego , Cracow 1908.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Mielżyński, Mathias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brudzewo-Mielżyński, Matthias Joseph Franz Graf von (full name); Mielzynski, Maciej (Polish)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish landowner and politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH at Winna Gora , Schroda district
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 1870
Place of death Kaźmierz