Jan Henryk DÄ…browski

Henryk Dabrowski January, Johann Heinrich Dombrowski, ( born August 29, 1755 in Pierzchowice, near Krakow, † June 6, 1818 in Winnogóra at Wronki, Greater Poland ) was a Polish general. He is revered as a Polish national hero.

Life

Dabrowski grew up in Hoyerswerda son of the Saxon Supreme Johann Michael Dabrowski ( Dombrowski ) and served from 1772 to 1792 in the Saxon army, then took on the Polish side under Stanislaus Poniatowski part in the Russian - Polish war of 1792, against the Russian invasion of Poland - Lithuania and the Confederation of Targowica.

During a nationwide rebellion, under the leadership of Tadeusz Kosciuszko, against the Second Partition of Poland and the political disenfranchisement by the Russian Empire, Dabrowski was a Commanding General. He captured on October 2, 1794 in Bydgoszcz Storm ( Battle of Bromberg ). With the collapse of the uprising Dabrowski retired to Wielkopolska. His attempt to get by with the remains of the army to France, failed.

After 1795 he joined the political unification Agencja. Dabrowski 1796 followed the call of Józef Wybicki to France and organized military units in 1797 by Polish volunteers to protect the newly formed Cisalpine Republic. This Legion was as the Danube Legion of General Karol Kniaziewicz in the service of the French Republic. The aim of the Polish generals was, with the help of the revolutionaries of France to march in former Polish territories and to free them. The partitions of Poland by Austria, Prussia and Russia should be reversed and resurrected Poland. In reality, the French Republic used the Polish Legion as a tourist regiments for their own purposes, as in Napoleon's Italian campaign.

In the army of the new Duchy of Warsaw, he was Commanding General and participated in the invasion of Russia in 1812 and in the campaigns of 1813 in Germany part. First commander of a Polish division, he was sent to death Poniatowski Commander in Chief of the entire Polish army.

After the end of the duchy by the Congress of Vienna, he organized a cavalry general under Tsar Alexander I, the new king of the Kingdom of Poland, the new Polish army. In 1816 he resigned his commission.

Dabrowski plays the main role in the text of today's Polish national anthem. The anthem wrote the previous also to Italy Józef Wybicki as Song of the Polish Legions in Italy. It gives the desire expressed that Dabrowski leads them back to Poland and resurrects them with the fatherland.

Honors

• His name is inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris in the 25th column ( Dombrowsky ).