Jan Tyssowski

January Tyssowski (* 1811 in Tarnów, † 1857 in Washington DC) was one of the leaders of the Cracow uprising and from February 24 to March 2, 1846 dictator of the Polish revolutionary government.

Life

He was first literary works, then studied law and was last secretary and freight managers in Zassaw. Already in the uprising of 1830 he was involved. As representatives of Tarnów he was one of the conspirators, who decided the insurrection of Cracow in 1846. He belonged to next Ludwik Gorzkowski and Aleksander Grzegorzewski the National newly formed government. These adopted on 22 February 1846, a manifesto that all Poles called to arms, promised the abolition of interest and compulsory labor and announcing that the freedom fighters to pay compensation from the national property. Militarily, the Polish insurgents were greatly distressed. Inside it came to the political division in an aristocratic- bourgeois and democratic party. Within a short time, governments came off and Tyssowski eventually took over the government by a dictator. After the suppression of the uprising, he laid down on March 2, the power and fled to Dresden. He spoke in interrogations of all his relationships. He was brought to North America and had to promise never to return to Europe. He received a public job in Washington. He also worked for the " German express mail. "