Leonard Chodźko
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Noble Family Szlachta The szlachta was a legally privileged noble class with origins in the Kingdom of Poland. It gained considerable institutional privileges during the 1333-1370 reign of Casimir the Great. In 1413, following a series of tentative personal unions between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of...	Chodźko
Coat of Arms Polish heraldry Polish heraldry is a branch of heraldry focused on studying the development of coats of arms in the lands of historical Poland , as well as specifically-Polish traits of heraldry. The term is also used to refer to Polish heraldic system, as opposed to systems used elsewhere, notably in Western Europe...	Kościesza
Parents	Ludwik Chodźko Waleria z Dederków
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Children
Date of Birth	1800
Place of Birth	Oborek
Date of Death	March 12, 1871
Place of Death	Poitiers Poitiers Poitiers is a city on the Clain river in west central France. It is a commune and the capital of the Vienne department and of the Poitou-Charentes region. The centre is picturesque and its streets are interesting for predominant remains of historical architecture, especially from the Romanesque...

Leonard Borejko Chodźko (1800-71) was a Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 historian, geographer, cartographer, publisher, archivist, and activist of Poland's post-November-1830-Uprising

November Uprising

The November Uprising , Polish–Russian War 1830–31 also known as the Cadet Revolution, was an armed rebellion in the heartland of partitioned Poland against the Russian Empire. The uprising began on 29 November 1830 in Warsaw when the young Polish officers from the local Army of the Congress...

 Great Emigration

Great Emigration

The Great Emigration was an emigration of political elites from Poland from 1831–1870. Since the end of the 18th century, a major role in Polish political life was played by people who carried out their activities outside the country as émigrés...

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Life

Chodźko was educated at the University of Vilnius, where he was a member of the Philomath

Philomath

A philomath + Greek manthanein, math- ) is a lover of learning. It is similar to but distinguished from philosophy in that "soph," the latter suffix, specifies "wisdom" or "knowledge."...

s, a secret organization established in 1816 by Vilnius University students including Adam Mickiewicz

Adam Mickiewicz

Adam Bernard Mickiewicz ) was a Polish poet, publisher and political writer of the Romantic period. One of the primary representatives of the Polish Romanticism era, a national poet of Poland, he is seen as one of Poland's Three Bards and the greatest poet in all of Polish literature...

, Tomasz Zan

Tomasz Zan

Tomasz Zan , was a Polish poet and activist.In 1817 he was a cofounder of the Philomatic Association , in 1820, Radiant Association , in 1820-1823 president of Filaret Association , all of them student organizations in Vilna dedicated to Polish cultural and political...

 and Józef Jeżowski

Józef Jezowski

Józef Jeżowski was a Polish philologist and poet. Friend of Adam Mickiewicz and Tomasz Zan. Founder of the Philomatic Association, in 1824 convicted by the Russian Empire activity for pro-Polish activity and exiled into Russia. Allowed to lecture at Kazan State University and later Moscow...

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From 1826 he lived in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

. During France's July 1830 Revolution

July Revolution

The French Revolution of 1830, also known as the July Revolution or in French, saw the overthrow of King Charles X of France, the French Bourbon monarch, and the ascent of his cousin Louis-Philippe, Duke of Orléans, who himself, after 18 precarious years on the throne, would in turn be overthrown...

, he served as aide-de-camp

Aide-de-camp

An aide-de-camp is a personal assistant, secretary, or adjutant to a person of high rank, usually a senior military officer or a head of state...

 to General La Fayette

Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette

Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette , often known as simply Lafayette, was a French aristocrat and military officer born in Chavaniac, in the province of Auvergne in south central France...

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Works

• Histoire des légions polonaises en Italie (1829)
• Histoire populaire de la Pologne (1863)
• Les Polonais en Italie (1829)
• Tableau de la Pologne ancienne et moderne sous le rapport géographique, statistique, géologique etc. (1830)
• Biographie du géneral Kościuszko (1837)
• Massacres de Galicie et Cracovie confisquée par l'Autriche en 1846 (1861)
• Un évêque polonais, le métropolitain Kazimir Gaspard Colonna Cieciszewski et son temps (1745-1831) (1866)
• Recueil des traités, conventions, actes diplomatiques etc. relatifs à la Pologne, de 1762 á 1862.
• Notice biographique sur Joachim Lelewel ; Paris, 1834
• Le Congrès de Vienne et les traités de 1815, précédés et suivis des actes diplomatiques qui s'y rattachent ; 1863 / 1864 ; éditeur : Amyot ; Paris ; 4 vol.

See also

• Léonard Chodzko (French Wikipedia)
• Polish Museum, Rapperswil