Paweł Ksawery Brzostowski (1739-1827) was a Polish

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. He held the office of Great Lithuanian Writer since 1762,

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from 1755 to 1773, and the Great Lithuanian Referendary from 1774 to 1787.

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*Tadeusz Turkowski: Brzostowski Paweł Ksawery. W: Polski Słownik Biograficzny. T. 3: Brożek Jan – Chwalczewski Franciszek. Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności – Skład Główny w Księgarniach Gebethnera i Wolffa, 1937, s. 55–56. Reprint: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, Kraków 1989, 1739 births 1827 deaths 18th-century Polish–Lithuanian writers 18th-century Polish–Lithuanian Roman Catholic priests 18th-century Polish nobility 19th-century Polish nobility {{RC-clergy-stub

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