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Henryk Abicht
Henryk Abicht (1835–1863) was a Polish independence activist and exile, a member of the Polish Democratic Society. He was considered to be a prominent Polish socialist. Abicht was born in Vilnius. In 1857 he emigrated to London, where he collaborated with Zenon Świętosławski, who worked in printing. From 1859 he was an associate of Alexander Herzen and publisher of Kolokol (newspaper), Kolokol. In 1862 he came to Warsaw as an emissary of the Gromady Rewolucyjnej Londyn of London which he had led along with Świętosławski, Jan Krynski and Ludwik Oborski. It caused an outrage that he had been able to reenter Poland under a British passport using the alias of John Bret. He tried to persuade the peasants to start a national uprising. A participant of the January Uprising, he fell into an ambush during the attack on the van with the money. On November 20, 1862 he was captured by the Russians and was killed shortly afterwards in Warsaw.Maksymiljan Meloch and Zofia Rutkowska, w: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polish Democratic Society
The Polish Democratic Society ( pl, Towarzystwo Demokratyczne Polskie or TDP) was a radical constitutionalist political organization established in Paris by émigrés from the Kingdom of Poland in 1832. While not explicitly socialist with respect to their political program, the Democratic Society nonetheless was influenced by French Utopian socialist thinking of the era and advocated the right of citizens to own land or other means of production. The Polish Democratic Society continued in existence into the decade of the 1840s, when it was a leading voice for agrarian revolution in Galicia. It is recognized as a forerunner of the Polish socialist movement which culminated in the establishment of the Communist Party of Poland. Organizational history Establishment The Polish Democratic Society (TDP) was established in the Kingdom of Poland in March 1832.M.K. Dziewanowski, ''The Communist Party of Poland.'' Second edition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1976; pg. 3. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
