Józef Boruwłaski
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Józef Boruwłaski was a Polish-born dwarf who was employed by the court and who was also a musician who toured in European and Turkish courts.
Portrait of Boruwłaski by Philip Reinagle, 1782
Court dwarf
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Over the course of history, some people with dwarfism were employed as court dwarfs. They were owned and traded amongst people of the court, and delivered as gifts to kings and queens. Filling a simil
Józef Boruwłaski
…Józef Boruwłaski (November 1739–September 5, 1837) was a Polish-born dwarf who was employed by the court and who was also a musician who toured in European and Turkish courts. Józef Boruwłaski was born in November 1739, near Halych in what was then the…
19th-century depiction of servants in the Ottoman Imperial Harem: the Chief Black Eunuch (left), a court dwarf (middle) and the Chief White Eunuch (right).
Stele hieroglyph depicting the court dwarf Hed, who died with his master, from the tomb of the Egyptian Pharaoh Den, 2850 BCE
Spanish court dwarfs with a dog by Jan van Kessel the Younger, 1670s
Portrait of Philip IV of Spain with his court dwarf by Gaspar de Crayer