Seweryn Urusky

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Sas coat of arms on the Uruski Palace in Warsaw
Front page Rodzina Herbarz szlachty polskiej , Volume V, 1908

Seweryn Maciej Leon Kazimierz Uruski (born June 1, 1817 in Noble Bilka near Lemberg ; † August 16, 1890 in Pisa ) was a representative of the Polish aristocracy and a Russian Privy Councilor.

Life

The Uruski Palace in Warsaw (2010)

Uruski came from a noble family that belonged to the Sas coat of arms . His parents were Kajetan Uruski († 1827) and Julia Wanda Potocka , coat of arms Srebrna Pilawa († 1876). From his mother he inherited the Uruski Palace in Warsaw, which was named after him .

He was raised to the rank of count in 1844 and was aristocratic marshal of the Warsaw Governorate in Congress Poland , where he was also President of the Heraldry in Warsaw. From this function, he wrote an encyclopedia of the Polish nobility in 15 volumes but got as many of his colleagues with comparable works, obhin the sheer mass of noble families in Poland, not through the whole alphabet, but only up to the first letter R . He was also a real secret councilor at the Russian imperial court, occasionally he is also referred to as court master.

Works

  • Rodzina. Herbarz szlachty polskiej . 15th vol., Warszawa 1904–1931 ( digitized version )
Coat of arms of Count Uruski in the register of arms of the Austrian Monarchy (1845)

family

The grandson named after Uruski, Prince Seweryn Czetwertyński-Światopełk

Uruski married Hermancja Maria von Tiesenhausen (1822-1891), daughter of the artillery colonel under Napoleon , Adolf Rudolf von Tiesenhausen († 1830) and Genowefa Pusłowska, Szeliga coat of arms († before 1842) in Warsaw in 1842. The marriage resulted in a son Mateusz (1843–1857) and two daughters Maria (1853–1931) and Seweryna (1860–1931). The daughter Maria had been married to Prince Vladimir Czetwertyński-Światopełk since 1872 and was the mother of Prince Seweryn Czetwertyński -Światopełk (1873–1945), a Russian-Polish politician, interned in Auschwitz .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andrzej Niewiadomski: Tiesenhausen (Tyzenhauz) in Lithuania and Polish Livonia , Plate III, 2010
  2. ↑ Almanach de Gotha , Gotha 1888, Justus Perthes , p. 279
personal data
SURNAME Uruski, Seweryn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Uruski, Seweryn Maciej Leon (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish-Russian noble representative
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Noble Bilka near Lemberg
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 1890
Place of death Pisa