Aleksander Wielopolski

Aleksander Wielkopolski ( born March 13, 1803 in Sędziejowice; † 30 December 1877 in Dresden) was a Polish nobleman, Count, landowners and politicians from the noble Wielopolskis. He was from 1862 leader of the government of Congress Poland, which was under the Russian Tsar directly.

Life

Wielopolski was conservative, pro-Russian, and sought recovery of the failed 1831, after the November Uprising, lost autonomy and emancipation of the Jews in Poland. He undertook an educational and agrarian reform. Education reform included the construction of new schools. The new " high school " in Warsaw (Polish SzkoĹ Główna Warszawska ) was the first university in the occupied part of Poland by Russia, which reached the rank of a university. The agrarian reform included the introduction of the rent instead of serfdom.

His attempt to limit the Polish national liberation movement among the young activists by he wanted to divulge the Russian military service for 15 years, promoted the outbreak of the January Uprising of 1863. Thereby he achieved the opposite effect, he wanted to avoid by his pro-Russian policy actually. When Tsar Alexander II in disgrace, he retired embittered and back of all misunderstood from active politics in 1863 and died after a serious illness in 1877 in Dresden.

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  • Politicians (Poland )
  • Person in the November Uprising (Poland )
  • Polish diplomat
  • Pole
  • Born in 1803
  • Died in 1877
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