Józef Aleksander Jabłonowski

Józef Aleksander Jabłonowski ( Josef Alexander Jablonowski; * February 4, 1711 in Tychomel, Volhynia, today Tykhomel ', Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine, † March 1, 1777 in Leipzig) was a Polish magnate, an official in the civil service, scholar and patron of the noble family of the Jablonowski. He founded in 1769 in Leipzig, the Princely Jablonowskische Society of Sciences, which is now considered the oldest existing learned society to promote German - Polish scientific and cultural relations. He was also a prince of the empire in the empire.

Life

Jabłonowski was born as the son of the eponymous Polish gentry family in. 1743 made ​​him Emperor Charles VII in the imperial princes. Under the reign of King Augustus III. of Poland (1733-1763) Jablonowski was built in 1744 to the cupbearer ( Stolnik ) of Lithuania promoted and transferred in 1755 to the Staff Office of the Voivode of Nowogrodek in black and Russia. At the same time Jablonowski united since 1755 several starosties in his hand. In the Polish king elections in 1764 he was one of the claimants to the throne, but was defeated by competitors Stanislaus August Poniatowski. As under the new king increased the internal troubles in Poland by the Confederation of Bar, Hajdamakenaufstand, moved Jablonowski 1768 to Leipzig.

Jablonowski married in 1740 originating from a rich Polish-Lithuanian princely family Karolina Teresa Radziwill ( 1707-1765 ) and was married to his second wife Wiktoria Franziszka Woroniecka, who survived him. From the first marriage of a daughter and one son, two daughters, emerge from the second link. 1773 bought Jablonowski in Leipzig on Roßplatz the house " to Crown Prince ", where he built his residence. He died there and was buried in the Catholic court chapel of Pleissenburg.

In Leipzig since 1880 reminds the Jablonowskistraße the merits of the prince to the science and the German -Polish cultural exchange; next to the Societas Jablonoviana continues to maintain the memory of their founder and his job.

Scholar and patron

Since the mid-18th century Jablonowski came forward with political and historical writings. So in 1748 appeared in Lochner in Nuremberg Jablonowski treatise L' Empire des Sarmates, a description of the Polish Aristocratic Republic. 1752 in Warsaw followed the publication of the medieval chronicle of the Poznań bishop Bogufal II ( 1242-1253 ). In the same year moved to Lviv in its second edition Jablonowski Heraldica to explain Polish knight characters and crests.

In Leipzig Jablonowski founded in 1769 at the university the Jablonowskische named after him, the Prince Society of Sciences - Societas Jablonoviana that exists among little modified name to this day. The 1774 by the Saxon sovereign approved Deed provides annually to promote research in the areas of mathematics or physics, economics, the German - Polish history and the history of the Slavic peoples through price competition. Since 1771/72 the annual award-winning work by the Company in the Acta Societatis Jablonovianae, which were published in Leipzig appeared. The endowment of 2000 ducats put Jablonowski at a banking house in Gdansk.

From the patronage of the princes of the empire further testifies in Leipzig today the King monument, which was Jablonowski in honor of the Saxon Lord Frederick Augustus the Just (1763-1827) the sculptor and painter Adam Friedrich Oeser (1717-1799) in order. The monument, which was completed only after the death Jablonowski, was first erected on the present Wilhelm- Leuschner-Platz in Leipzig and is now in the garden of the Gohliser chalet.

Publications

• L' Empire des Sarmates, aujourdhui Royaume de Pologne, Nuremberg [= Nürnberg ] 1748.
• Museum Polonum seu collectionem in regno Poloniae et magno ducatu Lithuaniae scriptorum editorum et edendorum opus bipartitum dicat, Leipoli [= Lemberg ] in 1752.
• Boguphali II de armis et domo rosarum episcopi Posnaniensis chronicon Poloniae, Varsoviae [= Warsaw ] 1752.
• Heraldica: to iest osada kleynotow rycerskich y wiadomość znaków herbownych dotąd w Polszcze obiaśniona [= Heraldica, which is the directory of the Knights Coat of Arms and explanation of the characters, as they have not yet been published in Poland ], 2nd edition, Lviv 1752.
• De astronomiae ortu atque progressu et de Telluris motu, Gedani [= Danzig ] (1761 /63).
• Acta Societatis Jablonovianae, Leipzig 1772 ff