Władysław Leopold Jaworski (1865 – 1930) was a Polish jurist and politician.
He studied law in Cracow, Berlin and Paris, and assumed a professorship of civil law in Cracow in 1897. An adherent of the conservative party, he was elected to the Diet of
Galicia in 1901 and to the Council of State in Vienna in 1911. When World War I broke out, he headed the
Supreme National Committee The Supreme National Committee (''Naczelny Komitet Narodowy'', ''NKN'') was a quasi-government for the Poles in Galicia, Austro-Hungarian Empire, from 1914 to 1917.
History
Created on 16 August 1914, the Supreme National Committee replaced the Te ...
, a Polish government in Galicia.
In 1918, Jaworski resigned from politics to focus on his legal scholarship. His broad writings include several monographs on the civil and administrative law of
Austria-Hungary
Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire,, the Dual Monarchy, or Austria, was a constitutional monarchy and great power in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. It was formed with the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of ...
and Poland.
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1865 births
1930 deaths
People from Busko County
People from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
Polish politicians
Members of the Austrian House of Deputies (1911–1918)
Members of the Diet of Galicia and Lodomeria
Polish jurists
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Conservatism in Poland