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Andrzej Tomasz Towiański (; January 1, 1799 – May 13, 1878) was a Polish philosopher and Messianism#Polish, messianic religious leader.
Towiański was born in Šalčininkai District Municipality, Antoszwińce, a village near Vilnius, which after Partitions of Poland belonged to the Russian Empire. He was the charismatic leader of the Towiańskiite sect, known also as ''Koło Sprawy Bożej'' (the Circle of God's Cause). In 1839 he experienced a vision in which the Holy Ghost and the Virgin Mary urged him to act as a messenger of the Apocalypse. Polish people, The Poles, French (people), the French—particularly Napoleon—and Jews were to play leading roles. Among those influenced by his thinking were the Polish Romanticism, Polish Romantic poets Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Słowacki, and Seweryn Goszczyński.
His extraordinary influence on Mickiewicz, a leader of the Polish emigre community, was divisive, and some members of the community accused him of being a Russian agent.
He died in Zurich.
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Andrzej Tomasz Towiański (; January 1, 1799 – May 13, 1878) was a Polish philosopher and Messianism#Polish, messianic religious leader.
Life
Towiański was born in Šalčininkai District Municipality, Antoszwińce, a village near Vilnius, which after Partitions of Poland belonged to the Russian Empire. He was the charismatic leader of the Towiańskiite sect, known also as ''Koło Sprawy Bożej'' (the Circle of God's Cause). In 1839 he experienced a vision in which the Holy Ghost and the Virgin Mary urged him to act as a messenger of the Apocalypse. Polish people, The Poles, French (people), the French—particularly Napoleon—and Jews were to play leading roles. Among those influenced by his thinking were the Polish Romanticism, Polish Romantic poets Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Słowacki, and Seweryn Goszczyński.
His extraordinary influence on Mickiewicz, a leader of the Polish emigre community, was divisive, and some members of the community accused him of being a Russian agent.
He died in Zurich.
See also
*History of philosophy in Poland#Messianism, History of philosophy in Poland (Messianism period) *List of Poles#Philosophy, List of PolesFootnotes
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