Prince Henryk Ludwik Lubomirski (1777–1850) was a Polish noble (
szlachcic
The ''szlachta'' (Polish: endonym, Lithuanian: šlėkta) were the noble estate of the realm in the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth who, as a class, had the dominating position in th ...
),
magnate
The magnate term, from the late Latin ''magnas'', a great man, itself from Latin ''magnus'', "great", means a man from the higher nobility, a man who belongs to the high office-holders, or a man in a high social position, by birth, wealth or ot ...
, political activist and patron of the arts.
Life
He was the son of
Józef Aleksander Lubomirski
Prince Józef Aleksander Lubomirski (1751–1817) was a Polish noble (szlachcic) and a magnate.
He was Lieutenant General of the Polish Army, castellan of Kiev and Starost of Romanów, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Romanów (1774–1817)
Son of ...
, he married Teresa Czartoryska (1785–1868), daughter of Prince
Józef Klemens Czartoryski (1740–1810).
He served as Prefect of the Kraków Department of the
Duchy of Warsaw in 1810. In 1813, he established the ''Przesąd Zwyciężony''
masonic lodge.
In 1823, he founded the Lubomirski Princes Museum in
Lviv (it was officially re-established in 1995 and is now part of
Ossolineum in
Wrocław).
He was the great-grandfather of Cardinal
Adam Stefan Sapieha.
See also
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Lubomirski family
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Szlachta
The ''szlachta'' (Polish: endonym, Lithuanian: šlėkta) were the noble estate of the realm in the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth who, as a class, had the dominating position in the ...
Ancestry
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lubomirski, Jozef Aleksander
1777 births
1850 deaths
Jozef Aleksander Lubomirski 1751
Recipients of the Order of the White Eagle (Poland)
Polish patrons of the arts