Józef Wybicki
Józef Rufin Wybicki ( born September 29, 1747 in United Bendomin at Berent, Prussia Royal proportion, † March 19, 1822 in Manieczki at Schrimm, Posen Province ) was a Kashubian- Polish politician and writer.
His father Piotr Wybicki was a follower of King Stanislaw Leszczynski. Józef had eight siblings, five of whom the clerical profession selected ( four nuns, a priest ).
In 1755 he entered the Jesuit College of Altschottland in Gdansk. With the support of some relative he hit after the first legal career, where he acted among others, as an intern at the Royal Court in Poznań. In 1767 he was elected to the Diet of Graudenz as a deputy to the Sejm, where he once belonged to the circle of the later Confederation of Bar, who wanted to strengthen Poland against the Russian Empire. He voted against the plans publicly Repnins strengthening of Russian influence and was then forced to flee from Warsaw.
In the 1770s he belonged to the reformist camp of King Stanisław August Poniatowski, among other things, as an employee at the judicial and educational reforms. From 1784, he was again at the Sejm and participated after the Second Partition of Poland in 1793 at the Kosciuszko uprising, which failed; the result was the third partition of Poland. 1795, after the end of the Polish state, he emigrated - how many reformers - to France and settled first settled in Paris before settling in Italy ( where he participated in the establishment of the Polish Legions ) and later went to Dresden.
In 1807 he played a significant role in the development of the Duchy of Warsaw by Napoleon's grace as a member of the Provisional Government Commission. After 1813, he put more on the Russian card and was from 1817 to 1820 Chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Russian " Kingdom of Poland ".
In addition to his political career, Wybicki operated also as a writer. He wrote poems, plays and opera libretti. To this day, he is famous for his text 1797 resulting song is not yet lost Poland ( " Polska Jeszcze never zginęła " ), now the Polish national anthem.
Posthumously published in 1840 his memoirs My Life ( " Życie Moje ").