Hugo Kołłątaj
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Hugo Stumberg Kołłątaj, also spelled Kołłątay, was a prominent Polish constitutional reformer and educationalist, and one of the most prominent figures of the Polish Enlightenment. He served as Deputy
Portrait by Józef Peszka
Kołłątaj
Kołłątaj, by Jan Pfeiffer, 1810
Kołłątaj, Jordan Park, Kraków
Polish Enlightenment
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The ideas of the Age of Enlightenment in Poland were developed later than in Western Europe, as the Polish bourgeoisie was weaker, and szlachta culture together with the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Hugo Kołłątaj
…1 April 1750 – 28 February 1812), was a prominent Polish constitutional reformer and educationalist, and one of the most prominent figures of the Polish Enlightenment. He served as Deputy Chancellor of the Crown between 1791–1792. He was a Catholic priest, social and political activist, political thinker, historian…
Portrait of the Prozor Family, by Franciszek Smuglewicz, 1789
Załuski Library, Poland's first public library, by Zygmunt Vogel, 1801
Roman theater on the Isle (1790–1793), a companion to the Palace on the Water.
Łazienki Palace, Warsaw, 1764–1795