Leon Sapieha

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Leon Sapieha

Coat of arms	Lis
Spouse(s)	Jadwiga Klementyna Zamoyska
Issue Cecylia Celestyna Sapieha Adam Stanislaw Sapieha Jadwiga Sapieha Maria Zofia Sapieha Wlodzimierz Sapieha Zofia Sapieha Leon Sapieha Teresa Sapieha Wladyslaw Sapieha
Noble family	Sapieha
Father	Aleksander Antoni Sapieha
Mother	Anna Zamoyska
Born	(1803-09-18)September 18, 1803 Warsaw, Poland
Died	September 1, 1878(1878-09-01) (aged 74) Krasiczyn, Poland

Leon Sapieha (1803–1878) was a Polish noble (szlachcic), politician and statesman.

Leon was born and educated in Warsaw, and studied law and economics in Paris and Edinburgh from 1820 to 1824. He began to work in the administration in the Polish (Congress) Kingdom. After the outbreak of the November Uprising in 1830, he left Poland and took part in diplomatic missions of the Polish "National Government" in France and Great Britain. After that, he returned and participated in the Uprising in the rank of an Artillery Captain, among others in the defence of Warsaw on September 6/7. He was awarded for that the Virtuti Militari Order. After the collapse of the Uprising he settled in the Austrian occupied part of Poland. In 1835 Russian authorities confiscated his estates in Congress Poland as punishment for his participation in the failed Uprising.

He was a member of "National movement" circles and held contacts with the "Hotel Lambert". He became a member of the National Sejm (Diet of Galicia) in the Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia, member of the Austrian Council of the State and member of the imperial Herrenhaus in 1861. In 1863 he didn't participate in the January Uprising in Russian-occupied Poland, but contributed towards it financially. From 1861 until 1875 he served as Sejm Marshal. In 1875 he retired from political life.

During his career he devoted much energy to agitating for the development of railways in Galicia, believing this to be central to the development of the region and the lives of its mostly Polish inhabitants. In 1858 after years of struggling to secure support in Vienna for his plans he was able to initiate the construction of the Carl Ludwig railway line connecting the railhead at Kraków with Lwow and Brody and linking Galicia with the rest of Europe.^[1]

Legacy

Memorial plaque to Leon an his wife in the Cathedral of Lwów.

In 1869 the city of Stanisławów (Ivano-Frankivsk) named its street after him, ulica Sapiezinskego (today - Independence Street), which carried its name until the start of World War II.

Descendant

Prince Leon Sapieha is :

Prince Adam Stanisław Sapieha's father
Prince Władysław Leon Sapieha-Kodenski 's grandfather
Prince Adam Zygmunt Sapieha-Kodenski's great-grandfather
Princess Zofia Sapieha-Kodenska's great-great-grandfather
hence, Mathilde, Queen of the Belgians' 6th-generation ancestor

Bibliography

Sapieha Leon, Wspomnienia z lat 1803–1863, Lwów 1914.

References

↑ Ralf Roth, Günter Dinhobl. 'Across the borders: Financing the world's railways in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.' Ashgate, 2008. p.53

v t e Sejm Marshals of Partitioned Poland

Tomasz Adam Ostrowski Stanisław Sołtyk Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski Wincenty Krasiński Rajmund Rembieliński Stanisław Piwnicki Józef Gabriel Lubowidzki Władysław Ostrowski Leon Sapieha Alfred Józef Potocki Włodzimierz Dzieduszycki Ludwik Wodzicki Mikołaj Zyblikiewicz Eustachy Stanisław Sanguszko Stanisław Marcin Badeni Andrzej Potocki

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Persondata
Name	Sapieha, Leon
Alternative names
Short description	Polish noble
Date of birth	September 18, 1803
Place of birth	Warsaw, Poland
Date of death	September 1, 1878
Place of death	Krasiczyn, Poland

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