Stanisław Kronenberg

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Stanisław Leopold Kronenberg (1846, Warsaw-1894, Warsaw) was a Polish-Russian financier; Born as a son of the banker and railroad tycoon Leopold Kronenberg (1812-1878) and his wife Rozalia Leo. Both his parents came from Jewish families which converted to Protestantism – the Kronenbergs to Calvinism. He was a brother of baron Leopold Kronenberg.

After graduating from gymnasium and high school he went to France. For two years he devoted himself to the study of political economy and finance, and was granted at Paris the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. During the Franco-Prussian war he took part in the defense of Paris, retiring with the rank of lieutenant and the cross of the Legion of Honor.

Upon the death of his father he returned to Warsaw, and assumed the management of his commercial and railroad interests. He was made president of the Teraspol and Upper Vistula lines, director of the Vienna line, president of the Bank of Commerce, and director of various other commercial institutions; and was concerned in the publication of the "Gazeta Polska", "Nowin", and "Biblioteka Umiejetnoscy Prawnych".

He left one daughter married into French aristocracy, and was be buried in the family vault at the Evangelical Reformed Cemetery in Warsaw next to his parents, and other members of the family.

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His writings on economy and finance, written in Polish, appeared in the "Economiscie".

He wrote also:

"Campagne", 1870-71
"Quelques Souvenirs et Appréciations d'ex-Officier d'Infanterie", Paris, 1871

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Encyklopedya Powsiechna
This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia article "Stanisław Kronenberg" by By Herman Rosenthal & J. G. Lipman, a publication now in the public domain.