Count Karol Lanckoroński () (born 4 November 1848 in

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; died 15 July 1933 in Vienna) was a Polish writer,

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, historian, traveler, and vice-president of the Society for Cultural Protection in his native Galicia. He was one of the wealthiest and most cultivated

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s in Austrian partition of Poland and in the whole of the

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. He was a member of the

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Biography

Count Lanckoroński studied

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and law, but because of his family's wealth never had to work for a living. In 1882 he participated with Otto Benndorf in an expedition to

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in Turkey. In 1885–86 he organised his own exploratory mission to

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and

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. Further travels took him to East Asia, where he was accompanied by the painter

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, as well as Spain and

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. He kept his enormous art collection in his city palace in Vienna, the Palais Lanckoronski. He was Grand Steward to the emperor

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. After

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, he spent more time at his family estate in Galicia, in newly independent Poland. He became engaged in art conservation. He was the father of Countess Karolina Lanckorońska, who became a well-known historian and Polish anti-Nazi resistance fighter during the German occupation of Poland.

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