Hugo Kołłątaj - Wikipedia Hugo Kołłątaj From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Hugo Kołłątaj Deputy Chancellor of the Crown Portrait by Józef Peszka Coat of arms Kotwica Born (1750-04-01)1 April 1750 Dederkały Wielkie, Wołyń Died 28 February 1812(1812-02-28) (aged 61) Warsaw, Duchy of Warsaw Buried Powązki Cemetery Noble family Kołłątaj Father Antoni Kołłątaj Mother Marianna Mierzeńska Hugo Stumberg Kołłątaj, alt. Kołłątay, (1 April 1750 – 28 February 1812) was a prominent Polish constitutional reformer and educationalist, and one of the most prominent figures of the Polish Enlightenment.[1][2] He served as Deputy Chancellor of the Crown, 1791–92. He was a Roman Catholic priest, social and political activist, political thinker, historian, philosopher, and polymath. Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Reforms of the Great Sejm 1.3 Exile and final years 2 Remembrance 3 See also 4 References 5 Further reading Biography[edit] Early life[edit] Hugo Kołłątaj was born 1 April 1750 in Dederkały Wielkie (now in Western Ukraine) in Volhynia into a family of minor Polish nobility. Soon after, his family moved to Nieciesławice, near Sandomierz, where he spent his childhood.[3][4][5][6] He attended school in Pińczów.[citation needed] He began his studies at the Kraków Academy, subsequently, Jagiellonian University, where he studied law and gained a doctorate.[1][4] Afterwards, around 1775 he took holy orders.[7] He studied in Vienna and Italy (Naples and Rome), where he would have encountered Enlightenment philosophy.[1][4][6][8] He is thought to have gained two further doctorates abroad in philosophy and theology.[7] Returning to Poland, he became a canon of Kraków,[8] and parish priest of Krzyżanowice Dolne and Tuczępy.[5] He was active in the Commission of National Education and the Society for Elementary Books, where he took a prominent role in the development of the national network of schools.[1][6][9] He spent two years in Warsaw, but returned to Kraków where he reformed the Kraków Academy, on whose board he sat from 1777, and whose rector he was between 1783-1786.[1][7][8][9] The reform of the Academy was very substantial. It established innovative standards. Notably, he substituted Polish for Latin which till then was used for lectures. The removal of Latin in favour of a national language in higher education was then still uncommon in Europe.[10] The reform proved so controversial that his political enemies plotted successfully to have him temporarily removed from Kraków in 1781, on grounds of corruption and immorality. Although in 1782 the decision was rescinded.[11] Reforms of the Great Sejm[edit] Kołłątaj Kołłątaj was also active politically. In 1786 he assumed the office of the Referendary of Lithuania, and moved to Warsaw.[1][6] He became prominent in the reform movement, heading an informal group that was on the radical wing of the Patriotic Party, and labelled by their political enemies as "Kołłątaj's Forge".[1][6][7][9] As leader of the Patriotic Party during the Great Sejm, he set out its programme in his Several Anonymous Letters to Stanisław Małachowski (1788–1789) and in his essay, The Political Law of the Polish Nation (1790).[1][6] In his works he advocated a republican-tinged constitutional reform and the need for other social reforms.[1][9] Among the goals he pursued were the strengthening of the king's constitutional position, a larger national army, abolition of the liberum veto, the introduction of universal taxation, and the emancipation of both townspeople and the peasantry.[6] An organizer of the townspeople's movement, he edited a text that demanded reform and which was delivered to the king during the Black Procession of 1789.[1][6] Kołłątaj co-authored the Constitution of 3 May 1791.[9] He also founded the Friends of the Constitution to assist in the document's implementation.[1] In 1786 he received the Order of Saint Stanislaus and in 1791, the Order of the White Eagle.[3] In 1791-92 he served as Crown Vice Chancellor (Podkanclerzy Koronny).[1][9] During the Polish-Russian war that broke out over the 3 May Constitution, Kołłątaj, along with other royal advisers, persuaded King Stanisław August, himself a co-author of the Constitution, to seek a compromise with their opponents and to join the Targowica Confederation that had been formed to bring down the Constitution.[9] However, in 1792, when the Confederates' won, Kołłątaj emigrated to Leipzig and Dresden, where in 1793 he wrote, with Ignacy Potocki, an essay entitled, On the Adoption and Fall of the Polish May 3 Constitution.[1][6] Exile and final years[edit] Kołłątaj, by Jan Pfeiffer, 1810 In exile, his political views became more radical and he became involved with the preparation for an insurrection.[1] In 1794 he took part in the Kościuszko Uprising, contributing to its Uprising Act on 24 March 1794 and to the Połaniec Manifesto on 7 May 1794. He headed the Supreme National Council's Treasury Department, and backing the Uprising's wing of Polish Jacobins.[1][6] After the suppression of the Uprising in the same year, Kołłątaj was imprisoned by the Austrians until 1802.[9] In 1805, with Tadeusz Czacki, he organized the Krzemieniec Lyceum in Volhynia.[1][6] In 1807, after the creation of the Duchy of Warsaw, he was initially involved in its government,[7] but was soon excluded from it through the intrigues of political opponents, and soon afterwards, was interned and imprisoned by the Russian authorities until 1808.[1][6] On his release he found himself barred from public office. Despite that he sought to present a programme for rebuilding and developing Poland in his "Remarks on the Present Position of That Part of the Polish Lands that, since the Treaty of Tilsit, have come to be called the Duchy of Warsaw", (1809).[1] In 1809 he became a member of the Warsaw Society of Friends of Learning. In the years 1809-1810 he was once again involved with the Kraków Academy, bringing it back from its temporarily Germanized form.[8][9] Kołłątaj, Jordan Park, Kraków In his The Physico-Moral Order (1811), Kołłątaj sought to create a socio-ethical system emphasizing the equality of all people, based on the physiocratic idea of a "physico-moral order".[12] Steeped in the natural sciences, geology and mineralogy in particular, he went on to write A Critical Analysis of Historical Principles regarding the Origins of Humankind, published posthumously in 1842. [13] In this work he put forward the first Polish presentation of ideas of social evolution based on geological concepts. This work is also seen as an important contribution to cultural anthropology.[12] In The State of Education in Poland in the Final Years of the Reign of Augustus III, published posthumously in 1841, he argued against the Jesuit domination of education and presented a study of the history of education.[12] He died on 28 February 1812,"forgotten and abandoned" by his contemporaries.[7][1] He was buried in the Powązki Cemetery.[7] Remembrance[edit] Part of a series on Catholic philosophy   Aquinas, Scotus, and Ockham Ethics Cardinal virtues Just price Just war Probabilism Natural law Personalism Social teaching Virtue ethics Schools Augustinianism Cartesianism Molinism Occamism Salamanca Scholasticism Neo-scholasticism Scotism Thomism Philosophers Ancient Ambrose Athanasius the Great Augustine of Hippo Clement of Alexandria Cyprian of Carthage Cyril of Alexandria Gregory of Nyssa Irenaeus of Lyons Jerome John Chrysostom John of Damascus Justin Martyr Origen Paul the Apostle Tertullian Postclassical Pseudo-Dionysius Boethius Isidore of Seville Scotus Eriugena Bede Anselm of Canterbury Hildegard of Bingen Peter Abelard Symeon the New Theologian Bernard of Clairvaux Hugh of Saint Victor Thomas Aquinas Benedict of Nursia Pope Gregory I Peter Lombard Bonaventure Albertus Magnus Duns Scotus Roger Bacon Giles of Rome James of Viterbo Giambattista Vico Gregory of Rimini William of Ockham Catherine of Siena Paul of Venice Modern Baltasar Gracián Erasmus of Rotterdam Thomas Cajetan Nicholas of Cusa Luis de Molina Teresa of Ávila Thomas More Francis de Sales Francisco de Vitoria Domingo de Soto Martín de Azpilcueta Tomás de Mercado Antoine Arnauld René Descartes Robert Bellarmine Ignacy Krasicki Hugo Kołłątaj François Fénelon Alphonsus Liguori Nicolas Malebranche Blaise Pascal Francisco Suárez Giovanni Botero Felicité de Lamennais Antonio Rosmini John Henry Newman Contemporary Pope Benedict XVI Pope John Paul II G. E. M. Anscombe Hans Urs von Balthasar Maurice Blondel G. K. Chesterton Yves Congar Henri de Lubac John Finnis Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange Étienne Gilson René Girard Nicolás Gómez Dávila Romano Guardini John Haldane Dietrich von Hildebrand Bernard Lonergan Marshall McLuhan Alasdair MacIntyre Gabriel Marcel Jean-Luc Marion Jacques Maritain Emmanuel Mounier Josef Pieper Karl Rahner Edith Stein Charles Taylor  Catholicism portal  Philosophy portal v t e Despite his lonely death, Kołłątaj became an influence on many subsequent reformers and is now recognized as one of the key figures of the Enlightenment in Poland, and "one of the greatest minds of his epoch".[1][6] He is one of the figures immortalized in Jan Matejko's 1891 painting, Constitution of May 3, 1791. Several learned institutions in Poland are named in Hugo Kołłątaj's honour, including the Agricultural University of Cracow of which he was co-founder and patron. See also[edit] History of philosophy in Poland - Enlightenment Piotr Skarga Stanisław Staszic List of Poles References[edit] ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t (in Polish) Kołłątaj Hugo, WIEM Encyklopedia ^ "The Year of Hugo Kołłątaj". Jagiellonian University. pp. 12–14. Retrieved 14 May 2014. ^ a b (in Polish) M.J. Minakowski, Hugo Kołątaj ze Sztumbergu h. wł., Wielka Genealogia Minakowskiego ^ a b c Krzysztof Bauer (1991). Uchwalenie i obrona Konstytucji 3 Maja. Wydawnictwa Szkolne i Pedagogiczne. p. 40. ISBN 978-83-02-04615-5. Retrieved 2 January 2012. ^ a b (in Polish) Historia, Urząd Gminy w Tuczępach ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m HALINA LERSKI; Harcourt Education (1 January 1996). Historical Dictionary of Poland, 966-1945. ABC-CLIO. pp. 259–260. ISBN 978-0-313-03456-5. Retrieved 2 December 2011. ^ a b c d e f g (in Polish) Hugo Kołłątaj, Katolicka Agencja Informacyjna ^ a b c d (in Polish)Halina Zwolska, TOWARZYSZE SZKOŁY GŁÓWNEJ KORONNEJ Archived 2012-04-15 at the Wayback Machine, Alma Mater, wiosna 1997, nr 4 ^ a b c d e f g h i Jacek Jędruch (1998). Constitutions, elections, and legislatures of Poland, 1493–1977: a guide to their history. EJJ Books. p. 194. ISBN 978-0-7818-0637-4. Retrieved 13 August 2011. ^ Krzysztof Bauer (1991). Uchwalenie i obrona Konstytucji 3 Maja. Wydawnictwa Szkolne i Pedagogiczne. p. 41. ISBN 978-83-02-04615-5. Retrieved 2 January 2012. ^ Krzysztof Bauer (1991). Uchwalenie i obrona Konstytucji 3 Maja. Wydawnictwa Szkolne i Pedagogiczne. p. 42. ISBN 978-83-02-04615-5. Retrieved 2 January 2012. ^ a b c (in Polish) Kołłątaj Hugo (1750-1812), Encyklopedia Interia ^ Stanley S. Sokol; Sharon F. Mrotek Kissane; Alfred L. Abramowicz (1992). The Polish biographical dictionary: profiles of nearly 900 Poles who have made lasting contributions to world civilization. Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers. p. 194. ISBN 978-0-86516-245-7. Retrieved 2 December 2011. Further reading[edit] Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hugo Kołłątaj. Władysław Tatarkiewicz, Historia filozofii (History of Philosophy), 3 vols., Warsaw, Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1978. "Kollontaj, Hugo" . 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