Aleksander Zawadzki (activist)

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Aleksander Zawadzki, pseudonym Ojciec Prokop, (1859–1926) was a Polish political and educational activist, publicist.

Zawadzki was a member of the Liga Polska, Liga Narodowa (1893–1908), a Main Board of the Stronnictwo Narodowo-Demokratyczne (National-Democratic Party; 1905–1907), Macierz Szkolna Królestwa Polskiego (1905–1908), Zjednoczenie Ludowe (1917–1918), founder of the Związek Nauczycieli Szkół Ludowych (1905), founder and President of the Narodowy Związek Chłopski (1912).

[edit] Biography

Zawadzki was born in 1859 in Vilnius. While he was studying in Saint Petersburg, he was associated with the narodnicy movement. Then, Zawadzki became an activist in social groups, and because of that was arrested and exiled to Siberia (1878–1881, 1885–1892).

Together with group of activists, he founded Fronda Zawadzkiego (Fronde of Zawadzki), transformed in 1912 into the Narodowy Związek Chłopski.

He died on November 23, 1926.

[edit] Further reading

  • Konefał, Jan (2000). Działalność społeczno-polityczna Aleksandra Zawadzkiego (Ojca Prokopa) w Królestwie Polskim 1876–1917 (in Polish). Lublin: Towarzystwo Naukowe Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego. ISBN 8373060065. OCLC 50809307. 

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Persondata
NAME Zawadzki, Aleksander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ojciec Prokop (pseudonym)
SHORT DESCRIPTION political activist, educational activist, publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Vilnius
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1926
PLACE OF DEATH