Augustyn Józef Czartoryski
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| Augustyn Józef Czartoryski | ||
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| Noble Family | Czartoryski | |
| Coat of Arms | Czartoryski | |
| Parents | Adam Ludwik Czartoryski Maria Ludwika Krasińska |
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| Consorts | María Dolores |
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| Children | with María Dolores Adam Karol Czartoryski Ludwik Piotr Czartoryski |
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| Date of Birth | October 10, 1907 | |
| Place of Birth | Warsaw, Russian Empire | |
| Date of Death | July 1, 1946 | |
| Place of Death | Seville, Spain | |
Prince Augustyn Józef Czartoryski (1907-1946) was a Polish noble (szlachcic).
Augustyn took over the running of the Family Museum and became ordynat of the Sieniawa Ordynacja properties. He married Princess Dolores de Borbon y Orleans, daughter of The Infant Don Carlos of Bourbon-Two Sicilies and Princess Louise of Orléans.
Due to the prospect of war The Museum prepared 16 cases with the most precious objects to be transported to Sieniawa Palace and walled up. The rest of the items were carried down to the Museum cellars, but in September as the bombs fell on Kraków Prince Agustyn and Princess Dolores, who was pregnant, decided to leave Sieniawa for a better refuge. On 18 September German troops found the cases and looted them for small tradable objects.
After the Germans moved on, Prince Agustyn removed all the treasures to his cousin's estate in Pelkinie saving them from the Russian army, but the Gestapo traced all objects and removed all important cases from their hiding places. Soon after, Prince Agustyn and Princess Dolores were picked up by the Gestapo and put under arrest. After heavy negotiation and thanks to their Royal Italian and Spanish connections they were deported and managed to reach Spain before the end of 1939.
In 1946 Prince Agustyn died and was buried in the crypt of the Silesian Church in Seville, Spain.
