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Wielhorski Family
Wielhorski is a Polish people, Polish surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Józef Wielhorski (1759 – 1817), Polish general * Józef Wielhorski (composer) (1816/1817 – 1892), Polish composer * Michał Wielhorski (elder) (1730 – 1794), Polish noble * Michał Wielhorski (younger) (1755 – 1805), Polish noble * Mikhail Vielgorsky (1787 – 1856), Russian official and composer {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polish People
Poles,, ; singular masculine: ''Polak'', singular feminine: ''Polka'' or Polish people, are a West Slavic nation and ethnic group, who share a common history, culture, the Polish language and are identified with the country of Poland in Central Europe. The preamble to the Constitution of the Republic of Poland defines the Polish nation as comprising all the citizens of Poland, regardless of heritage or ethnicity. The majority of Poles adhere to Roman Catholicism. The population of self-declared Poles in Poland is estimated at 37,394,000 out of an overall population of 38,512,000 (based on the 2011 census), of whom 36,522,000 declared Polish alone. A wide-ranging Polish diaspora (the '' Polonia'') exists throughout Europe, the Americas, and in Australasia. Today, the largest urban concentrations of Poles are within the Warsaw and Silesian metropolitan areas. Ethnic Poles are considered to be the descendants of the ancient West Slavic Lechites and other tribes that inhabite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Józef Wielhorski
Józef Wielhorski (1759–1817) was a Polish general. As an officer (rotmistrz) he fought in the Polish–Russian War of 1792 and later, as a colonel, in the Kościuszko Uprising. Tadeusz Kościuszko sent him to revolutionary France with the goal of obtaining help from the Committee of Public Safety, his requests for a French expeditionary corps were however futile. Under Napoleon, he would become (in 1797) a general in the Polish Legions, where he would be taken captive at the Siege of Mantua (1799). As a protest for the French-Austrian peace, he returned to partitioned Poland, but in 1809, with the France again at war with Austria, he would join the pro-French Polish forces and became a general in the Duchy of Warsaw, where he also became a deputy minister of war. He remained in the Duchy during Napoleon's invasion of Russia; in its aftermath, in the Congress Poland, he was a Minister of War and a member of its senate. Bibliography * H. P Kosk Generalicja polska t. 2 wytd.: O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Józef Wielhorski (composer)
Count Józef Wielhorski (1816/1817–1892) was Polish pianist and composer. Life and compositions Józef Wielhorski was born in Rusinów, Radom Governorate, in 1817 or 1818. His parents were count Józef Wielhorski and Salomea Dembińska (daughter of Wolbromska). When young Frédéric Chopin visited Rusinów, Józef swooned by listening to him playing piano. While studying at Berlin university, he took lessons from Wilhelm Taubert. He married Marya Iżycka, but this marriage provided no children. Wielhorski was neither a professional virtuoso, nor a professional composer. He highly esteemed Mozart's music. According to Polish musician Jan Kleczyński, his own compositions, though being mostly bagatelles, valses and mazurkas, bear little reminiscences to those of Chopin. Another of his favorite genres was march. His compositions did not gain success even during his life, and he was not interested in this. Kleczyński explained such a failure through their relative difficulty: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michał Wielhorski (elder)
Michał Wielhorski h. Kierdeja (c. 1730 – 1794) was a Polish noble, official, politician, diplomat and writer. He was the Lithuanian Master of the Kitchen in the years 1763–1774, Lithuanian Great Quartermaster in 1758–1762,Urzędnicy centralni i dostojnicy Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego XIV-XVIII w. Spisy, oprac. H. Luiewicz, A Rachuba, Kórnik 1994, s. 248. starost and envoy of the Bar Confederation to France. Family He married Elżbieta Ogińska and was the father of three sons. * Michał Wielhorski (1755–1805), general, husband of Celina Przeuska h. Sulima and Aleksandra Kurdwanowska h. Półkozic * Jerzy Wielhorski (1755–1809), field clerk of Lithuania *Józef Wielhorski (1759–1817), general Bibliography 1730 births 1794 deaths Bar confederates 18th-century Polish nobility Polish diplomats Members of the Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Government officials of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Michal Michal (; he, מיכל&nbs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michał Wielhorski (younger)
Michał Wielhorski (1755–1805) was a Polish-Lithuanian count. In 1789, he was a brigadier of the Polish Crown Army. In 1792, he was made a lieutenant general of that army and he fought in the War of 1792. During the Kościuszko Uprising, he was a lieutenant general of the Grand Ducal Lithuanian army. Son of Michał Wielhorski, brother of General Józef Wielhorski. He was an officer in the Habsburg army. He was in the same regiment as Józef Poniatowski, and was his friend. They fought together in the Austro-Turkish War (1788–1791) and were both wounded at Šabac in 1788. Together they entered service in the Polish Crown Army. Wielhorski was the brigadier of the 2nd Ukrainian National Cavalry Brigade with the rank of colonel. In 1792, he was a lieutenant general as the commander of the 2nd Ukrainian Division. He fought in the Volyn campaign. He was beaten at Boruszkowce. Poniatowski's right hand in the War of 1792, where he distinguished himself in the battle of Zieleńce (h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
