Władysław Zamoyski (entrepreneur)

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Zamoyski around 1924

Władysław Zamoyski (born November 18, 1853 in Paris , † October 3, 1924 at Kórnik Castle ) was a Polish magnate , philanthropist , entrepreneur , patron and politician who did a lot for the Tatra Mountains , among other things .

Life

Władysław Zamoyski came from the Polish magnate family Zamoyski from Greater Poland . His father Władysław Stanisław Zamoyski (1803–1868) was an officer in Russian, Sardinian and Belgian services, most recently a general of the Ottoman army in the Crimean War . His mother was Jadwiga Zamoyska (nee Działyńska). Andrzej Artur Zamoyski and Johann von Dzialynski were his uncles. Władysław Zamoyski junior grew up in Paris, where he attended the Lycée Charlemagne , and served in the French army. As a representative of the French government he visited the world exhibition in Sydney in 1879 and toured Australia and Oceania until 1881, from where he brought back rich ethnographic and mineralogical collections. In 1881 he inherited the property in Kórnik , which at that time belonged to the Prussian province of Posen . In 1882 he founded a girls' school on his estate, which he later moved to Kuźnice near Zakopane .

Due to Bismarck's deportation from Poland , as a French citizen, he had to leave his property in Kórnik in 1885 and moved with his mother and sister to the Austrian-dominated Galicia . In 1898 he acquired the Zakopane estates, which included a large part of the Polish share in the High Tatras and Western Tatras . He stopped metallurgy in the Tatra Mountains and initiated nature conservation. He also financed a large part of the road and rail link from Chabówka to Zakopane (completed in 1899), which gave Zakopane a transport connection to Krakow and thus a wide road and rail network. In 1902 he fought the area around the Meerauge in the Fischbachtal for Galicia before the court of arbitration in Graz . He commissioned Oswald Balzer to conduct litigation against the Hungarian side. He was involved in numerous clubs and societies in Poland and France.

After Poland's independence was restored, Zamoyski returned to Kórnik in 1920. He never married and died childless. However, he acted as guardian and promoter of the young Józef Retinger , whose father had been Zamoyskis legal advisor. In 1924 he put his fortune into the Kórnik Foundation , which he bequeathed to the Polish state. In 1933 he was posthumously awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta by President Ignacy Mościcki .

Commemoration

Monument in Zakopane
  • In Zakopane there is a monument in honor of Władysław Zamoyski.
  • On the Meerauge there is a plaque commemorating the lawsuit of 1902.
  • There is a plaque commemorating the railway connection in 1899 at Zakopane railway station.

Web links

Commons : Władysław Zamoyski  - collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Stanisław Potocki: Władysław Zamoyski. In: Wielkopolski słownik biograficzny , Warsaw / Poznań 1981, PWN ISBN 83-01-02722-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ MBB Biskupski: War and Diplomacy in East and West. A Biography of Józef Retinger. Routledge, Abingdon (Oxon) / New York 2017, p. 6.
personal data
SURNAME Zamoyski, Wladyslaw
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish patron, philanthropist and entrepreneur in the Tatras
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH October 3, 1924
Place of death Kórnik