- Władysław Plater
Władysław Plater ("also" Broel-Plater;
Vilnius ,November 7 ,1808 –April 22 ,1889 ,Broelberg , nearZurich ,Switzerland ) was a Polish-Lithuania n count, brother ofCezary Plater , and a relative ofEmilia Plater . WithAgaton Giller , he founded the Polish National Museum inRapperswil ,Switzerland .Life
Władysław Plater, a relative of
Emilia Plater , like her took part, inLithuania , in the November 1830 Uprising againstImperial Russia .In 1832 he succeeded in influencing British public opinion in favor of Poland.
In exile in
Paris , as a member of Poland'sGreat Emigration , he founded the journal "Le Polonais" (1833–36).In 1863 Plater was active on behalf of the Polish January 1863 Uprising.
In 1868, on the
centennial of theBar Confederation , Plater erected in the Swiss town ofRapperswil , on the shore ofLake Zurich , a column surmounted by a Polish eagle and inscribed, "Magna res libertas" (Latin : "A great thing is liberty"). Two years later, onOctober 23 ,1870 , in the Rapperswil Castle, he founded a Polish National Museum as a repository for Polish historic memorabilia, a library and archives of theGreat Emigration .In Rapperswil, Plater married the actress
Karoline Bauer .References
*Janusz S. Morkowski, "Polish Museum, Rapperswil: Guide through the Exposition" (triligual English-German-Polish guidebook), Rapperswil, 1994, ISBN 83-900559-9-6.
*Gabriela Pauszer-Klonowska, "W Rapperswilu śladami Żeromskiego i Prusa" ("In Rapperswil in the Footsteps of Żeromski and Prus"), "Problemy: organ Towarzystwa Wiedzy Powszechnej" (Problems: Organ of the Society of Universal Knowledge), "rok XXV, nr 8 (281)" [year XXV, no. 8 (281)] , 1969, pp. 466–70.
*"Władysław Plater," "Meyers Konversations-Lexikon", 4. Aufl. 1888–1890, Bd. 13, S. 118 f.
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