Andrzej Artur Zamoyski

Andrzej Artur Zamoyski ( born April 2, 1800 Vienna, † October 29, 1874 in Kraków ) was a Polish magnate and politician of the division of time.

Life

He came from the magnate family of the Zamoyski and was educated in Paris, Geneva and Edinburgh. 1823 he was Director of the Department of Agriculture and Commerce of the Government of the Kingdom of Poland. During the November Uprising of 1830/31 he was sent by the government of the insurgents to Vienna, to campaign for support.

After the defeat of the rebels, he retired to his estates and led to his lands a number of innovations. He also published a magazine on economic issues and campaigned for the introduction of steam navigation on the Vistula one. He founded the port Czerniaków in Warsaw itself a shipyard for the construction of river ships.

In 1858 he was the founder of the agrarian society and was in the following years, its president. This organization developed under his leadership to represent the more moderate aristocratic and conservative political forces in Congress Poland. She had more than 4,000 members in 77 districts. She was at times the most influential voice of a total of Polish political public. The organization was almost like a Diet spare.

In competition with him as speaker of the moderates Aleksander Wielopolski occurred. During these increasingly went into the camp of the Russians, Zamoyski remained in the camp of the opposition and increased during the time of the great national demonstrations at the beginning of the 1860s to a leader of the moderate so-called "white " on. He then fought the policy of Wielopolski. He had to come and had to go into exile in France after a vain conversation with the Tsar to St. Petersburg. Thus, the whites went to Poland lost its leader and the influence of the "Red " rose, which led to the outbreak of the failed January Uprising of 1863/64.