Antoni Popławski (1739–1799) was a Polish

Piarist The Piarists (), officially named the Order of Poor Clerics Regular of the Mother of God of the Pious Schools (), abbreviated SchP, is a religious order of clerics regular of the Catholic Church founded in 1617 by Spanish priest Joseph Calasanz ...

educator and economist. A

physiocrat Physiocracy (; from the Greek for "government of nature") is an economic theory developed by a group of 18th-century Age of Enlightenment French economists. They believed that the wealth of nations derived solely from the value of "land agricultu ...

and a proponent of the emancipation of

serfs Serfdom was the status of many peasants under feudalism, specifically relating to manorialism and similar systems. It was a condition of debt bondage and indentured servitude with similarities to and differences from slavery. It developed dur ...

, in 1774 he coined the term "

noble democracy Golden Liberty (; , ), sometimes referred to as Golden Freedoms, Nobles' Democracy or Nobles' Commonwealth ( or ''Złota wolność szlachecka'') was a political system in the Kingdom of Poland and, after the Union of Lublin (1569), in the Polish ...

" to describe the political system of the

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, also referred to as Poland–Lithuania or the First Polish Republic (), was a federation, federative real union between the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ...

.Benedict Wagner-Rundell, ''Common Wealth, Common Good'' (Oxford University Press, 2015), p. 73. Popławski was born and died in

Kraków , officially the Royal Capital City of Kraków, is the List of cities and towns in Poland, second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city has a population of 804,237 ...

Works

* ''O rozporzadzeniu i wydoskonaleniu edukacji obywatelskiej'' (1774
Available on Google Books
* ''Moralna nauka dla szkól narodowych'' (1778)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Poplawski, Antoni 1739 births 1789 deaths Polish economists Piarists 18th-century people from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth