Julian Klaczko

Julian Klaczko ( born November 6, 1825 Vilnius, † November 26, 1906 in Kraków ) was a Polish writer, journalist and politician.

Life and work

Klaczko was born Yehuda Leib in a Jewish family. He studied in Vilna and Königsberg, where he in 1847 the doctorate of philosophy department acquired ( dissertation topic: De rebus Franco - Gallicis saeculi XV). He then went to Heidelberg to study with Georg Gottfried Gervinus. Gervinus made ​​him the staff of the German newspaper. In 1848 he spent some time in Poznan and published in 1849 in Berlin, his first political pamphlet, an open letter titled 'The German hegemon. Open letters to Lord George Gervinus. In it, he expressed his disappointment at the Frankfurt National Assembly, in which the slogan was issued by the " healthy national egoism " against the Slavs in the Polish debate in July 1848 by the East Prussian deputies Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Jordan. In this posture Klaczko recognized the German " train to the East ", from which the momentous expression of the German Drang nach Osten was born.

1850 Klaczko went to Paris, where he was, made ​​a name for literary works that were published in the Revue de Paris, later in the Revue des Deux Mondes. After the death of his father had become destitute Klaczko converted to Christianity and was baptized in Paris in the 1850s in the name of Julian Klaczko. In Paris, he joined the resident become the Hôtel Lambert Polish emigration. He was from 1857 to 1860 editor of the monthly magazine Wiadomosci Polskie (Polish News ). His published articles there are both literary and aesthetically as highlights Polish language, but were not allowed to appear in the Russian and Prussian -occupied Poland.

In the years 1870-1871 he was the Foreign Ministry of Austria-Hungary as a Privy Councillor, a post and also a place in the Parliament of Galicia. He then returned to Paris to devote himself to his literary work. He published in 1875 a portrait study of Otto von Bismarck and Alexander Mikhailovich Gorchakov wrote about Dante Alighieri and wanted to make a voltage applied to three volumes of work on the Papacy during the Renaissance, appeared of which only the first, because he fell ill in 1898 Paralysis.