Antoni Protazy Potocki

Antoni Protazy Potocki
Noble Family Potocki
Coat of Arms Piława
Parents Jan Prosper Potocki
Paula Szembek
Consorts Marianna Lubomirska
Children with Marianna Lubomirska
Emilia Potocka
Date of Birth September 11, 1761
Place of Birth Guzów near Skierniewice
Date of Death 1801
Place of Death  ?

Antoni Protazy Potocki (11 September 1761 – 1801), aka Prot, was a Polish noble (szlachcic). Knight of the Order of the White Eagle, awarded on May 8, 1781.

Antoni became a banker in Warsaw and was also voivode of Kiev Voivodship in 1791 and starost of Guzów, Żyrardów County[1]..

He was the owner of Chudniv and organized several factories in the village of Makhnivka, near Berdychiv. He directed the Polish Black Sea Trading Company, and ran an import-export business in Russian-ruled Kherson. He inherited from his father big capital. Potocki bankrupted in 1793 in connection to financial crisis[2].

References

  1. ^ Zofia Zielińska, Prot Potocki, Polski Słownik Biograficzny, no. 28/1, 1984, p. 134.
  2. ^ Zofia Zielińska, Prot Potocki, Polski Słownik Biograficzny, no. 28/1, 1984, p. 134-135.