Tadas Vrublevskis
Tadas Vrublevskis ( Polish Tadeusz Wróblewski; born November 8 . Jul / 20th November 1858 greg. In Vilnius , † 3. July 1925 ) was a Polish - Lithuanian noble lawyer and patron .
Life
Vrublevskis was the son of a famous homeopath and nephew Walery Antoni Wróblewskis , who was one of the leaders of the January uprising of 1863/1864 and later general of the Paris Commune . After attending high school in Vilnius, Vrublevskis began studying medicine at the Medical-Surgical Academy in St. Petersburg . But soon he was excluded from studying for participation in revolutionary organizations, as well as from the University of Warsaw . In 1884 he was exiled to Siberia in the Tobolsk Governorate . After a few years the exile was lifted. He returned to St. Petersburg and completed a law degree after passing the entrance exam . He then worked as an assistant to a lawyer in St. Petersburg.
In 1891 Vrublevskis returned to Vilnius after his father's death and worked as a lawyer. In addition, he steadily expanded his father's library using his inherited assets and income. His main interest was in Lithuanian history and in particular that of Vilnius. The library included a large collection of valuable manuscripts , maps, plans, documents, photographs, postcards, prints and museum items. In 1907 he acquired the Plater family collection, including a large art collection. He also acquired items from Masonic lodges, in particular from Henriko Taturos from Minsk , Iwan Jelagin and Emilijos Fedorovič, the widow of Vaclovo Fedorovičiaus. The collection contained objects from the collections of Michalo Dulskio, Dominyko Moniuškos and Jono Volfgango Bartolomiejaus Bieniovskio, the loges of all lodges of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania as well as seals , medals and the manuscript of the Narsus lietuvis lodge project with the ritual chalice. In 1899 he founded and led the para- freemason organization Neošubravcų , which existed until 1914.
As a lawyer, Vrublevskis took on difficult cases. After the Russian Revolution in 1905 , he defended around 400 revolutionaries until 1907. He became particularly well-known through the defense of Pyotr Schmidt . In the first and third Duma he campaigned for the sovereignty of Lithuania , Belarus , Poland and Ukraine .
From 1912 Vrublevskis pursued the goal of establishing a public library in Vilnius. To this end, he founded the Eustachijaus and Emilijos Vrublevskis Library Society , which was later transformed into the Vrublevskis Society for the Advancement of Science .
When the Vilnius area was occupied and annexed by Poland after the First World War , Vrublevskis defended Lithuanian activists free of charge, especially Mykolas Biržiška . In 1922 he was unanimously elected honorary member of the Lithuanian Science Society. There he gave lectures on the history of Lithuania and Vilnius. In 1925, shortly before his death, he donated his collection to the city of Vilnius on the condition that the collection must never be divided and never removed from Vilnius.
Vrublevskis was buried in the Rasos cemetery in Vilnius. In 1926, Vrublevski's library, now under the supervision of the Polish government, was located in Państwowa Biblioteka im. Eustachego i Emilii Wróblewskich w Wilnie renamed. In 1939 the library with its 200,000 collection items was expanded to include a scientific institute and a museum. After the occupation by the Soviet Union as a result of the Hitler-Stalin Pact , a substantial part of the collection was brought to Minsk in September 1939. The library in Vilnius was taken over by Lithuania in October 1939. The remaining part of the collection now belongs to the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences in Vilnius.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alvydas Nikžentaitis, Stefan Schreiner, Darius Staliūnas: The Vanished World of Lithuanian Jews . Rodopi, 2004, ISBN 978-90-420-0850-2 , pp. 156 .
- ↑ a b Tomas Venclova : Vilniaus . Vardai, Vilnius 2006, ISBN 9986-830-96-6 , p. 212 .
- ↑ a b Rimantas Miknys: Acquaintance with Lithuania. Book of the Millennium . Kraštotvarka, Kaunas 1999, ISBN 9986-892-34-1 , p. 68-74, 124 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vrublevskis, Tadas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wróblewski, Tadeusz (Polish) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lithuanian lawyer and patron |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 20, 1858 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vilnius |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 3, 1925 |
| Place of death | Vilnius |