Roman Sołtyk (1790 – 24 October 1843)Death certificate N°330
AD78 () was a Polish nobleman (

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 ...

), political activist and general. Born in

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 ...

, Roman was son of

Stanisław Sołtyk Stanisław Sołtyk (12 December 1753 – 4 June 1831) was a Polish nobleman (szlachcic), political activist, landowner, father of Roman Sołtyk. Stanisław was born in Krysk near Płońsk. He became Royal chamberlain in 1780, Great Podstoli ...

. He served as an officer in the

Duchy of Warsaw The Duchy of Warsaw ( pl, Księstwo Warszawskie, french: Duché de Varsovie, german: Herzogtum Warschau), also known as the Grand Duchy of Warsaw and Napoleonic Poland, was a French client state established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1807, during ...

and took part in

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's Russia Campaign. He was a member of secret independence organisations in Russian-occupied Poland. From 1830 to 1831 he served as a member of the

Sejm The Sejm (English: , Polish: ), officially known as the Sejm of the Republic of Poland (Polish: ''Sejm Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej''), is the lower house of the bicameral parliament of Poland. The Sejm has been the highest governing body of t ...

. As Brigadier-General he participated in the

November Uprising The November Uprising (1830–31), also known as the Polish–Russian War 1830–31 or the Cadet Revolution, was an armed rebellion in the heartland of partitioned Poland against the Russian Empire. The uprising began on 29 November 1830 in W ...

. Like his father, he became a member of the underground "Patriotic Society". On his motion the Sejm dethroned Czar

Nicolas I , house = Romanov-Holstein-Gottorp , father = Paul I of Russia , mother = Maria Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg) , birth_date = , birth_place = Gatchina Palace, Gatchina, Russian Empire , death_date = ...

on 25 January 1831. After the fall of the uprising he went into exile in France. He died in

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Bibliography

* Sołtyk, Roman (General), ''Operations of the Polish Army during the 1809 Campaign in Poland''. Translated by George F. Nafziger. West Chester, The Nafziger Collection, 2002, (179 p.) * (fr) ''La Pologne, précis historique, politique et militaire de sa révolution, précédé d’une esquisse de l’ histoire de la Pologne, depuis son origine jusqu’en 1830'' par le comte Roman Sołtyk. Paris 1833, (2 vol.). * (fr) ''Napoléon en 1812. Mémoires historiques et militaires sur la campagne de Russie'', par le comte Roman Sołtyk, général de brigade d’artillerie polonais, officier supérieur à l’état-major de Napoléon. Paris 1836, (464 p.). * (fr) ''Napoléon en 1812. Mémoires du Polonais Roman Sołtyk''.

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Paris, LCV Services, 2006, (328 p.) * (fr) ''Relation des opérations de l'armée aux ordres du Prince Joseph Poniatowski pendant la campagne de 1809 en Pologne contre les Autrichiens'' par le comte Roman Sołtyk, général de brigade d’artillerie polonais, officier supérieur à l’état-major de Napoléon. Paris 1841, (403 p.).

References

1790 births 1843 deaths Military personnel from Warsaw Nobility from Warsaw Politicians from Warsaw Generals of the November Uprising

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