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Vincent De Pol
Wincenty Pol (20 April 1807 – 2 December 1872) was a Polish poet and geographer. Life Pol was born in Lublin (then in Kingdom of Galicia, Galicia), to Franz Pohl (or Poll), a German in the Austria-Hungary, Austrian service, and his wife Eleonora Longchamps de Berier, from a French family living in Poland. Pol fought in the Polish army in the November Uprising, November 1830 Uprising and participated in the Revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas, 1848 revolution. In spite of his mixed family background, he considered himself a Pole, so much so that he changed his surname to Pol. He was interned in Königsberg after the fall of the November Uprising in Congress Poland, Russian partition of Poland. He enrolled at the University but soon became embroiled in controversy, for his anti-Tsarist agitation. While Pol was defended by German speaking professors, Peter von Bohlen and Friedrich Wilhelm Schubert, he left Prussia and continued his exile in France. While in exile Pol worke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juliusz Kossak
Juliusz Fortunat Kossak (Nowy Wiśnicz, 15 December 1824 – 3 February 1899, Kraków) was an Austrian Polish historical painter and master illustrator who specialized in battle scenes, military portraits and horses. He was the progenitor of an artistic family that spanned four generations,See list of Juliusz Kossak's descendants at " Kossak family", including second-, third- and fourth-generation painters, with links to individual articles. father of painter Wojciech Kossak and grandfather of painter Jerzy Kossak.Jerzy Jan Lerski, Piotr Wróbel, Richard J. Kozicki ''Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966-1945''See: Kossak, Juliusz and Wojciech; Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, 750 pages, , Life Juliusz Kossak grew up in Lwów in the Austrian Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria. He obtained a degree in law at the Lwów University encouraged by his mother. At the same time he studied painting with Jan Maszkowski and Piotr Michałowski.Irena Kossowska, Art Institute of the Polish A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
