Count Walerian Skorobohaty Krasiński or Valerian Krasinski (1795 – 22 December 1855) was a Polish

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historian and jurnalist born in

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. Krasinski was a Polish aristocrat in exile after the

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1830, during the Austrian, German and Russian

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. In 1844, he was proposed for a chair in Slavonic Studies at Oxford University. In 1848, he presented appeals to the Habsburg government. In ''Russia and Europe, or, The probable consequences of the present war'' he wrote on the

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. Krasinski's ''Historical sketch of the rise, progress, and decline of the Reformation in Poland'' (1838) still one of main texts on the subject available in English, was written in English. One of Krasinski's main sources is ''Slavonia reformata'' (1679) by Andreas Vengerscius. He died in

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and is buried in the

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close to another Polish exile, the violinist and composer Feliks Janiewicz, one of the co-organisers of the first

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. The grave is marked by a tall grey granite obelisk. It lies in the overgrown area (2014) to the south-west, around 50m east of the more accessible monument to Horatio McCulloch.

Works

* ''The present government of Russia: the Emperor Nicholas,'' article 1841 * ''Russia and Europe, or, The probable consequences of the present war'' * : * ''Monachologia, Or, Handbook Of The Natural History Of Monks: Arranged According To The Linnean System''

Ignaz Edler Von Born Ignaz Edler von Born, also known as Ignatius von Born ( hu, Born Ignác, ro, Ignațiu von Born, cs, Ignác Born) (26 December 1742 in Alba Iulia, Transylvania, Grand Principality of Transylvania, Habsburg monarchy – 24 July 1791 in Vienna), ...

and Walerian Krasinski. * English translation of

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's '' Treatise on Relics''. * ''Panslavism and Germanism'' 1848 * * ''Montenegro and the Slavonians in Turkey'' 1853 * ''The Polish Question and panslavism'' 1855 * ''Poland, its history, constitution, literature etc.'' 1855

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Krasinski, Walerian 1780 births 1855 deaths 19th-century Polish historians Polish male non-fiction writers Burials at Warriston Cemetery Counts of Poland Polish emigrants to the United Kingdom Polish Calvinist and Reformed Christians 19th-century Polish politicians Polish political writers