Aleksander Jełowicki (18 December 1804 in

Hubnyk Hubnyk is a Ukraine, Ukrainian village in the Haisyn Raion (raion, district) of Vinnytsia Oblast (oblast, province). Demographics According to the 2001 census, the majority of Hubnyk's population was Ukrainian language, Ukrainian (97.79%), with ...

- 15 April 1877 in

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) was a Polish writer, poet, translator and publisher. He was a veteran of the

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, deputy to the

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for the Haisyn powiat and political exile in France, where he was a social activist, superior of the

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and

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. Among the works he published are the

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s of

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's '' Part III of Dziady'' (1832) and ''

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'' (1834). Between 1835 and 1838 he was leading partner of the publishing house and printing works, ''Jełowicki i S-ka'' in Paris. His list of authors constitutes a major part of Poland's 19th-century

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and includes:

Juliusz Słowacki Juliusz Słowacki (; ; ; 4 September 1809 – 3 April 1849) was a Polish Romantic poet. He is considered one of the " Three Bards" of Polish literature — a major figure in the Polish Romantic period, and the father of modern Polish drama. Hi ...

Zygmunt Krasiński Count Napoleon Stanisław Adam Feliks Zygmunt Krasiński (; 19 February 1812 – 23 February 1859) was a Polish poet traditionally ranked after Adam Mickiewicz and Juliusz Słowacki as one of Poland's Three Bards – the Romantic poets who ...

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Stefan Witwicki Stefan Witwicki (September 13, 1801April 15, 1847) was a Polish poet of the Romantic period. Life From 1822 Witwicki worked in the Congress Poland's Government Commission on Religions and Education (''Komisja Rządowa Wyznań i Oświaty''). In ...

Wincenty Pol Wincenty Pol (; 20 April 1807 – 2 December 1872) was a Polish poet and geographer. Life Pol was born in Lublin (then in Galicia), to Franz Pohl (or Poll), a German in the Austrian service, and his wife Eleonora Longchamps de Berier, from a ...

, Antoni Gorecki,

Maurycy Mochnacki Maurycy Mochnacki (13 September 1803 in Bojaniec near Żółkiew – 20 December 1834 in Auxerre) was a Polish literary, theatre and music critic, publicist, journalist, pianist, historian and independence activist. One of the main theorists of P ...

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, Klementyna Hoffmanowa,

Ignacy Krasicki Ignacy Błażej Franciszek Krasicki (3 February 173514 March 1801), from 1766 Prince-Bishop of Warmia (in German, ''Ermland'') and from 1795 Archbishop of Gniezno (thus, Primate of Poland), was Poland's leading Polish Enlightenment, Enlightenment ...

. In 1844 he arrived in Paris, where he held the position of the superior of the Polish Mission at the Church of St. Roch; from 1849 in the church of l' Assomption. As the superior of the Mission, he dealt with (actually a certain Wińczowa from Lithuania, as proved in 1923 by Jan Urban), the alleged abbess of the Basilian nuns from Minsk, whose martyrdom in the Russian Empire was to be used as a tool of anti-Russian propaganda in the West, especially in Rome. In October 1845, he accompanied her to Rome and helped found a Basilian convent in Rome. The person of Mieczyslavska aroused many controversies from the beginning. As chaplain to Polish artists in exile, in October 1849 he heard the last

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and gave him the

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. He was present when the composer breathed his last. He described the musician's final moments in a letter, dated 21 October, to countess Xawera Grocholska. He was a founding member of the

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and conducted an extended correspondence with its Father General,

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. He was a younger brother of

Edward Jełowicki Edward Bożeniec Jełowicki born 1803 in Hubnyk, Hubnik now in Western Ukraine, died 10 November 1848 in Vienna, was a Polish landowner, decorated Colonel in the Polish army, November Uprising, insurgent, officer in the Foreign Legion (France), F ...

. During the

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(1870-1871), the veteran insurgent applied for the role of chaplain to the fighters in Paris and ministered to injured soldiers, binding their wounds and helped folk of all faiths. He died during a trip to Rome in April 1877. His body was transferred to Paris and buried at the

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, the largest 19th-c. Polish cemetery in France. Semenenko, Piotr (1876-1879
''Listy'' Tom XIII, Biblioteka Internetowa Zmartchwystańców
pp. 61–71. (in Polish)

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