Stanisław Konarski
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Stanisław Konarski, real name: Hieronim Konarski (Zyrce, September 30, 1700 – August 3, 1773 in Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish pedagogue, Reformer of Education, political writer, poet, dramatist, Piarist monk and precursor of the Enlightenment in Poland.
Stanisław studied from 1725 to 1727 at the Collegium Nazarenum in Rome, where he became a teacher of rhetoric. After that he traveled through France, Germany and Austria for supplement his education. In 1730 he came back to Poland, and began to work at a now edition of Polish collective laws, the "Volumina legum". In 1730 he founded the Collegium Nobilium, an elite school for children of the gentry (szlachta), in Warsaw. Then he led to the reformation of the Piarist education in Poland, according to his education program the "Ordinationes Visitationis Apostolicae..." (1755).
His reforms became a landmark in the fight for modernization of the Polish education system in the 18th century. Konarski was early political tied with Stanislaw Leszczynski, later with the Czartoryski "Familia" and King Stanislaw August Poniatowski. He participated in the "Thursday dinners" held by the King. The King caused a medal to be struck in his honour, with his image and the well-merited inscription, "Sapere auso."
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