Franciszek Siarczyński (1758–1829) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest, member of the

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religious order, historian, geographer, teacher, writer and publicist. He was a lecturer of grammar, history and geography at the Collegium Nobilium in

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from 1781 to 1785. He was a regular guest at the Thursday Dinners held by the King of

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in the era of the

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. He was the author of three volumes of ''‘Geografii, czyli opisania naturalnego, historycznego i politycznego krajów i narodów’'' ''(Geography, natural history, history and politics of the country and its citizens)''. At the time of the

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in 1794, he wrote for the ''Gazeta Wolna Warszawska'' (''The Free Warsaw'' newspaper).Antoni Trębicki ''‘Opisanie Sejmu ekstraordynaryjnego podziałowego roku 1793 w Grodnie. O rewolucji roku 1794′'', opracował i wstępem poprzedził Jerzy Kowecki,

1967, page 549. He collected material for the ''Słownika historyczno-statystyczno-geograficznego Galicji'' (''The Encyclopædia of history, statistics and geography of Galicia''), which was published in parts from 1857 as a weekly supplement ''‘Rozmaitościach’'' in the

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Gazette: ''Gazeta Lwowska''. After the transfer of the

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's collection of books, from

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, in 1827, he became the first director of the National Library of the

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, from 1827 to 1829. His religious posts included being the Parish Priest in

Jarosław Jarosław (; , ; ; ) is a town in southeastern Poland, situated on the San (river), San River. The town had 35,475 inhabitants in 2023. It is the capital of Jarosław County in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship. History Jarosław is located in the ...

, the Cathedral

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and

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and the

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in Kozieniec (1789) and

Łańcut Łańcut (, ; ; ) is a town in south-eastern Poland, with 18,004 inhabitants, as of 2 June 2009. Situated in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship (since 1999), it is the Capital (political), capital of Łańcut County. History Archeological investigat ...

(1799).

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