Antoni Popławski (1739–1799) was a Polish

Piarist The Piarists (), officially named the Order of Poor Clerics Regular of the Mother of God of the Pious Schools ( la, Ordo Clericorum Regularium pauperum Matris Dei Scholarum Piarum), abbreviated SchP, is a religious order of clerics regular of the ...

educator and economist. A

physiocrat Physiocracy (; from the Greek for "government of nature") is an economic theory developed by a group of 18th-century Age of Enlightenment French economists who believed that the wealth of nations derived solely from the value of "land agricultur ...

and a proponent of the emancipation of serfs, in 1774 he coined the term " noble democracy" to describe the political system of the

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and, after 1791, as the Commonwealth of Poland, was a bi- confederal state, sometimes called a federation, of Poland and Lithuania ru ...

.Benedict Wagner-Rundell, ''Common Wealth, Common Good'' (Oxford University Press, 2015), p. 73. Popławski was born and died in

Kraków Kraków (), or Cracow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city dates back to the seventh century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 1596 ...

Works

* ''O rozporzadzeniu i wydoskonaleniu edukacji obywatelskiej'' (1774
Available on Google Books
* ''Moralna nauka dla szkól narodowych'' (1778)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Poplawski, Antoni 1739 births 1789 deaths Polish economists Piarists