Celestyn

Chołodecki Chołodecki (variously spelled as Cholodecki, Hołodecki, Holodecki) is the Polish surname of one of the noble (''szlachta'') families. It is derived from the village of Chołodec located in Wołyń, currently located in Ukraine. According to ...

(1816–1867) was a member from the

szlachta The ''szlachta'' (; ; ) were the nobility, noble estate of the realm in the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Depending on the definition, they were either a warrior "caste" or a social ...

(noble) family of

. Like his son to follow,

Józef Białynia Chołodecki Józef Dominik "Kresowiec" Bartłomiej Chołodecki (15 August 1852 – 30 January 1934) was a Polish historian. Biography Chołodecki was born in 1852 in in the Galicia (Central Europe), Galician region of the then Austro-Hungarian empire, clo ...

, Celestyn Chołodecki was a writer and frequent contributor to leaflets calling for

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

's independence from Russia. He was the brother of

Tomasz Chołodecki Tomasz Chołodecki (21 December 1813 – 17 July 1880) was a political activist and Poland, Polish rebel and soldier, who took part in almost every major event that supported Poland's independence in the 19th century. November uprising Tomasz Ch ...

, who was widely known in the area of Galicia as an activist and rebel.

References

*''Celestyn Chołodecki (Białynia): wspomnienie z minionej doby'' (Celestyn Cholodecki (Białynia): remembrances from a time past) Kazimierz Baranowski, Lwów 1907 *Chołodecki, Białynia Józef. ''Białynia-Chołodeccy : uczestnicy spisków, więźniowie stanu'' (History of the Cholodecki family of the Bialynia Clan). 1911 1816 births 1867 deaths Celestyn {{Poland-writer-stub