Józef Wybicki - Wikipedia Józef Wybicki From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Józef Wybicki Coat of arms Rogala Born (1747-09-29)29 September 1747 Będomin, Pomerania, Poland Died 10 March 1822(1822-03-10) (aged 74) Manieczki, Schrimm, Prussia Noble family Wybicki herbu (coat of arms) Rogala Spouse(s) 1. Kunegunda Wybicka, née Drwęska (1773–1775) 2. Estera Wybicka, née Wierusz-Kowalska (1780) Father Piotr Wybicki Mother Konstancja Wybicka, née z Lniskich Józef Rufin Wybicki (Polish pronunciation: [juˈzɛf vɨˈbʲit͡skʲi]; 29 September 1747 – 19 March 1822) was a Polish nobleman, jurist, poet, political and military activist of Kashubian descent.[1] He is best remembered as the author of "Mazurek Dąbrowskiego" (English: "Dąbrowski's Mazurka"), which in 1927 was adopted as the Polish national anthem. Contents 1 Life 2 Works 3 See also 4 References 5 External links Life[edit] Manor house (dwór) of Józef Wybicki in the village of Będomin Wybicki was born in Będomin, in the region of Pomerania in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.[2] His family was Pomeranian nobility.[3] He finished a Jesuit school, and in his youth was a junior court official.[3] Wybicki was elected a deputy to the Repnin Sejm, the session of Polish parliament in 1767, on the eve of the First Partition of Poland.[2] Subsequently he joined the insurgency known as the Confederation of Bar (1768–1772), aimed at opposing the Russian influence and king Stanisław August Poniatowski.[2][3] He was one of the advisors (konsyliarz) of the Confederacy, acting as a diplomat.[4] After the failure of the uprising, he spent some time in the Netherlands, studying law at Leiden University.[3] Jan Henryk Dąbrowski and Wybicki met Napoleon in Berlin in 1806 Returning to Poland, in the 1770s and 1780s he was associated with the Commission of National Education.[2] He supported King Stanisław August Poniatowski and his proposed reforms.[2][3] He helped draft the liberal Zamoyski Codex of laws of the late 1770s.[5] He was a Patriotic Party activist during the Great Sejm (1788–92) – though he was not one of its first deputies, during much of that time staying at his estate, writing and staging operas.[2][3] He did, however, participate in the Great Sejm's deliberations, beginning in 1791.[5] In 1792, in the aftermath of the Polish–Russian War of 1792, like many of Poniatowski's supporters, he joined the Targowica Confederation.[6] He participated in the Kościuszko Uprising (1794)[2] and was a member of the Military Section of the Provisional Council of the Duchy of Masovia.[7] After the failure of this insurrection he moved to France.[3] Józef Wybicki He was a close friend of both Tadeusz Kościuszko and Jan Henryk Dąbrowski.[8] With Dąbrowski he organized the Polish Legions in Italy, serving under Napoleon Bonaparte.[2] In 1797, while in Reggio Emilia, Italy, he wrote Mazurek Dąbrowskiego (Dąbrowski's Mazurek).[2] In 1806 he helped Dąbrowski organize the Greater Poland Uprising.[3] After the creation of the Duchy of Warsaw in 1807, he held a number of positions in its Department of Justice, and continued working for it after the Duchy's transformation into Congress Poland.[3] In 1817 he became president of the Supreme Court of Congress Poland.[9] He died on 10 March 1822 in Manieczki, in Schrimm, then part of the Grand Duchy of Posen, Prussia.[2] Works[edit] Wybicki was a writer, journalist and a poet.[2] He wrote political-themed poems, plays and political treaties advocating reforms in Poland in the 1770s and 1780s.[2][3] His works of that time analyzed the Polish political system, the concepts of liberty, and advocated for more rights for the peasantry.[10] He would also publish more political brochures in the 1800s, advocating for liberal reforms in the Duchy of Warsaw.[3] Mazurek Dąbrowskiego (Dąbrowski's Mazurka) remains Wybicki's most famous creation.[3] It has been regarded as an unofficial national anthem since the November Uprising of 1831.[2] In 1927 the Mazurka was officially adopted as the Polish national anthem by the Polish parliament (Sejm).[3][11] See also[edit] Enlightenment in Poland References[edit] ^ "JÓZEF WYBICKI". www.jozefwybicki.pl. Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Muzeum Hymnu Narodowego. Retrieved 22 November 2020. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Bolesław Oleksowicz. "Józef WYBICKI". VIRTUAL LIBRARY OF POLISH LITERATURE. Retrieved 7 October 2013. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Omer Bartov (2007). Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-day Ukraine. Princeton University Press. pp. 121–122. ISBN 978-0-691-13121-4. ^ Mariana B. Michalika (1994). Kronika powstań polskich: 1794 – 1944 (in Polish). "Kronika"-Marian B. Michalik. p. 10. ISBN 978-83-86079-02-5. ^ a b Richard Butterwick (1 December 2011). The Polish Revolution and the Catholic Church, 1788–1792: A Political History. Oxford University Press. p. 285. ISBN 978-0-19-925033-2. ^ Władysław Zajewski (1989). Józef Wybicki (in Polish). Książka i Wiedza. p. 10. ISBN 978-83-05-11947-4. ^ Aleksander Kociszewski (1982). Pieśnią i szablą: rzecz o twórcy hymnu narodowego (in Polish). Iskry. p. 93. ISBN 978-83-207-0478-5. ^ Agnieszka Barbara Nance (2008). Literary and Cultural Images of a Nation Without a State: The Case of Nineteenth-century Poland. Peter Lang. p. 141. ISBN 978-0-8204-7866-1. ^ Jadwiga Lechicka (1962). Józef Wybicki (in Polish). Państw. Wyd. nauk. p. 167. ^ Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz (17 August 2012). Queen Liberty: The Concept of Freedom in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. BRILL. pp. 126–127. ISBN 978-90-04-23121-4. ^ (in Polish) Dziennik Urzędowy Ministerstwa Spraw Wewnętrznych. 1927, nr 1 i 2 External links[edit] Wikimedia Commons has media related to Józef Wybicki. Biography at univ.gda.pl Memoirs of Józef Wybicki Free scores by Józef Wybicki at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) Authority control BNF: cb121812571 (data) GND: 119383438 ISNI: 0000 0001 0902 1893 LCCN: n50041632 MBA: 4d7dcf97-a20b-4faf-b5ea-27f6c138d18c NKC: osa2009530807 NTA: 073014273 PLWABN: 9810582422405606 SUDOC: 030388155 VcBA: 495/94178 VIAF: 54191372 WorldCat Identities: lccn-n50041632 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Józef_Wybicki&oldid=990076478" Categories: 1747 births 1822 deaths People from Kościerzyna County Polish lawyers Age of Enlightenment National anthem writers Kościuszko insurgents Senators of Congress Poland Senators of the Duchy of Warsaw Members of the Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Recipients of the Order of Saint Stanislaus Targowica confederates Recipients of the Legion of Honour Bar confederates Polish legionnaires (Napoleonic period) Polish male poets Hidden categories: CS1 Polish-language sources (pl) Articles with Polish-language sources (pl) Use dmy dates from October 2013 Articles containing explicitly cited English-language text Commons category link is on Wikidata Composers with IMSLP links Articles with International Music Score Library Project links Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers Wikipedia articles with NKC identifiers Wikipedia articles with NTA identifiers Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with VcBA identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikimedia Commons Languages Български Čeština Deutsch Dolnoserbski Ελληνικά Español Esperanto Français Italiano Magyar مصرى Nederlands 日本語 Polski Português Română Русский Suomi Svenska Українська Tiếng Việt Edit links This page was last edited on 22 November 2020, at 17:47 (UTC). 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