Stanisław Leopold Kronenberg (12 December 1846 in

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– 4 April 1894 in Warsaw), was a

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Life

He was born the son of banker and railroad tycoon

Leopold Stanisław Kronenberg Leopold Stanisław Kronenberg (born 24 March 1812 in Warsaw, Congress Poland, Poland, died 5 April 1878 in Nice, French Third Republic, France) was a Polish people, Polish banker, investor, and financier, and a leader of the 1863 January Upr ...

(1812-1878) and his wife Ernestine Rozalia Leo (1827-1893), the daughter of Leopold Augustus Leo. Both parents came from Jewish families which had converted to Protestantism—the Kronenbergs, to

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. He had five siblings: Władysław Edward, Baron Leopold Julian Kronenberg (1849–1937), Tekla Julia Kronenberg, Marie Roze Kronenberg, and Roze Marie Karoline Kronenberg. After graduating from '' gymnasium'', he went to

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. For two years he studied

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and

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, and was granted at

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the degree of

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. During the

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he took part in the

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of Paris, retiring with the rank of

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and the cross of the

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. Upon the death of his father in 1878, he returned to Warsaw, and assumed the management of his commercial and

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interests. He was made president of the

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and Upper

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lines, director of the

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line, president of the

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, and director of various other commercial institutions; and was concerned in the publication of ''Gazeta Polska'' (The Polish Gazette), ''Nowiny'' (News, edited by

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, then for a year by

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) and ''Biblioteka Umiejętności Prawnych''. He was also active in the sugar industry. He was married to Elizabeth Półtoracką, with whom he had a prenuptial legally recognized daughter Maria Anna, whose husband was Marie Jehan Bourrée Marc Philibert Comte de Corberon. He was buried beside his parents and other family members in the family vault at

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Literary works

His writings on economy and finance, written in

, appeared in the "''Economist''". He also wrote: * "''Campagne''", 1870–71 * "''Quelques Souvenirs et Appréciations d'ex-Officier d'Infanterie''", Paris, 1871.

References

* ''Encyklopedia Powszechna'' (Universal Encyclopedia) * Familie Kronenberg

1846 births 1894 deaths Businesspeople from the Russian Empire Businesspeople from Warsaw Polish people of Jewish descent Polish economists Stanisław {{Poland-business-bio-stub

Life

Literary works

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