Agaton Giller (

Opatówek Opatówek is a town of 3,800 inhabitants in central Poland, situated southeast from Kalisz, in the Kalisz County in the Greater Poland Voivodeship. The commune ( Gmina) of Opatówek, including the town of Opatówek and 26 other villages, has abo ...

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, 1831 – 1887, Stanisławów,

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) was a Polish historian,

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and

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. He and his brother

Stefan Giller Stefan Giller (1833–1918) was born in Opatówek, Congress Poland, Russian Empire. With his elder brother, Agaton Giller, Stefan played an active role in the Polish independence movement and in the January 1863 Uprising. Life Stefan Giller was ...

played notable roles in the Polish independence movement and in the

January 1863 Uprising The January Uprising ( pl, powstanie styczniowe; lt, 1863 metų sukilimas; ua, Січневе повстання; russian: Польское восстание; ) was an insurrection principally in Russia's Kingdom of Poland that was aimed at ...

Life

He was a participant in the

January Uprising The January Uprising ( pl, powstanie styczniowe; lt, 1863 metų sukilimas; ua, Січневе повстання; russian: Польское восстание; ) was an insurrection principally in Russia's Kingdom of Poland that was aimed at ...

and was one of the leaders of the "

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" faction among the insurrectionists as a member of the

Central National Committee Central National Committee (Polish: ''Komitet Centralny Narodowy (KCN)'') was the underground coordinating committee of the Polish independence movement in 1860s Congress Poland which was responsible for preparing a general uprising against Tsaris ...

(''Komitet Centralny Narodowy'') and the Provisional National Government (''Tymczasowy Rząd Narodowy''). After being exiled to

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by the Imperial Russian authorities, he became the first Siberian historian and biographer of other deported Poles. Later, in exile in Paris, he was a journalist with such periodicals as ''Ojczyzna'' (The Fatherland) and ''Kurier Paryski'' (The Paris Courier), a founder of Polish self-assistance organizations, and a founder of the Polish National Museum in

Rapperswil Rapperswil ( Swiss German: or ;Andres Kristol, ''Rapperswil SG (See)'' in: ''Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses – Lexikon der schweizerischen Gemeindenamen – Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS, LSG)'', Centre de dia ...

, in

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. He wrote many historical and biographical works, articles and studies. He died in 1887 in Stanisławów. In 1980 his grave was repatriated from the closed Ivano-Frankivsk cemetery to

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

Powązki Cemetery Powązki Cemetery (; pl, Cmentarz Powązkowski), also known as Stare Powązki ( en, Old Powązki), is a historic necropolis located in Wola district, in the western part of Warsaw, Poland. It is the most famous cemetery in the city and one of t ...

Legacy

The

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, in the

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, considers Agaton Giller its "spiritual father."

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Polish Museum
(Polish Museum Rapperswil)

1831 births 1887 deaths People from Kalisz County Burials at Powązki Cemetery 19th-century Polish historians Polish male non-fiction writers Polish journalists Polish politicians January Uprising participants Members of Polish government (January Uprising) Polish exiles in the Russian Empire People from Rapperswil-Jona 19th-century journalists Male journalists 19th-century male writers {{Poland-politician-stub

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