The Lilpop family was a dynasty of artisans and industrialists in
Warsaw,
Poland.
History
The ancestor of the family's Polish branch was Antoni Augustyn Lilpop, from
Graz
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,
Austria, who settled in
Warsaw in the final years of the reign of King
Augustus III of Poland
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and in 1789 founded a
watchmaking firm. The firm existed until 1939, when it was destroyed by German bombs.
The best-known Lilpop company was The Industrial Society of the
Lilpop, Rau & Loewenstein
Lilpop, Rau i Loewenstein (, often shortened to Lilpop or LRL) was a Polish engineering company. Established in 1818 as an iron foundry, with time it rose to become a large holding company specialising in iron and steel production, as well as all ...
Mechanical Factory, one of the biggest metallurgic factories in the
Polish Kingdom
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and the II Republic. The factory was destroyed during the
Second World War.
Family descendants have included:
*Stanisław Lilpop (1817–1866), mechanical engineer, inventor, founder of Lilpop, Rau i Loewenstein in Warsaw;
*{{Interlanguage link multi, Stanisław Wilhelm Lilpop, pl (2014), son of Stanisław, industrialist, traveler, founder of the town of
Podkowa Leśna
Podkowa Leśna (literal meaning – "Forest Horseshoe", in full: ''Miasto-ogród Podkowa Leśna'' – "Garden-City Podkowa Leśna") is a town in Grodzisk Mazowiecki County, Masovian Voivodeship of Poland and located within the territory of the ...
;
*Ludwik F.M. Lilpop, (1845–1905), watchmaker and philanthropist, president of the parish council of the
Lutheran Church
Lutheranism is one of the largest branches of Protestantism, identifying primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practice of the Catholic Church launched th ...
in Warsaw;
*Edward August Lilpop (1844–1911), Warsaw architect;
*Franciszek Lilpop (1870–1937), Warsaw architect;
*Stefan Ludwik Lilpop (1872–1923), watchmaker, collector, patron of art and theatre;
*Wacław Lilpop (1887–1949), urologist, founder of Polish Urological Society;
*Jerzy Lilpop (1888–1945), botanist (paleobotanist), curator of the botanical section of the Natural Museum PAN in Cracow;
*Zbigniew Lilpop (2000), electrical engineer, expert in municipal transport.
Bibliography
*Eugeniusz Szulc, ''Cmentarz Ewangelicko-Augsburski w Warszawie'', Warsaw 1989.
*Stanisław Szenic, "Cmentarz Powązkowski 1851-1890", PWN 1982.
* Necrology, "Gazeta Wyborcza" 28 Sept. 2007
Surnames
Polish Lutherans