Stefan Giller

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Stefan Giller (1833 in Opatowek, Congress Poland, Russian Empire - 1918) his elder brother Agaton Giller were two brothers who played an active role in the Polish independence movement and the Greater Poland Uprising.

Stefan was a poet, an epigone of the Polish Romanticism, a Polish history of literature and a Polish language teacher at schools in Kalisz when the Russian government tried hard to eradicate the Polish language from the public life. He was highly valued and respected by his students, who were, among others, the president of the Polish Republic, Stanisław Wojciechowski, the chancellor of the University of Vilnius, Alfons Parczewski and many outstanding doctors and lawyers.

In 1997 librarians from Opatówek are many documents, letters, manuscripts, books and objects owned by the Gillers' family in their house attic. The letters, the most valuable part of this finding, were worked out and published as "The Unknown Letters of Giller the family".