Karol Libelt

Karol Fryderyk Libelt ( German Karl Friedrich Libelt ) ( born April 8, 1807 in Poznań, † June 9, 1875 in Brdów ) was a Polish journalist, scientist, politician and revolutionary.

Early years

Libelt studied 1826-1830 Classical philology, philosophy, mathematics and natural sciences in Berlin. Already during his studies he became politically active in the democratic wing of the Polish Youth in Berlin. He was co-founder of the Society of Polish Library in Berlin. The study, he finished with the PhD. In the following years he undertook a research trip to Göttingen, Heidelberg, Brussels and Paris. He worked next to a correspondent for Gazeta W. Ks Poznańskiego from Posen.

In 1831 he took part in the Polish November Uprising. He initially served as a soldier in the artillery and was promoted to sergeant and finally sub-lieutenant. After the end of the uprising, he was interned in Opava. In 1832 he was sentenced to nine months imprisonment for their involvement in the rebellion, which he served in the Magdeburg fortress.

Journalistic and academic work

Since 1832, Libelt lived as a scientific and political journalist in Poznan. In 1833 there was a criminal case against him for political offenses. He was acquitted on appeal.

After that, he was until 1835 the tenant of good Ulejno. Since 1838 he was also a contributor to various magazines in Warsaw and Poznan. In 1840 he became editor of the magazine Tygodnik Literacki ( literary weekly paper ) in Poznan. Between 1840 and 1841 he headed a private Knabenpensionat in Poznan. Then he was at the German school until 1844 assistant teacher. In this year he published a textbook of mathematics. Libelt 1844 has the term intelligentsia first used in the sense of a totality of all educated.

Around the year 1842 he founded the magazine Dziennik Domowy (Home page) and since 1843 he was co-publisher and editor of the magazine Rok ( The year ). This magazine was the center of Polish philosophical discussion in the 1840s. His main research work was the Filozofia i krytika, published in five volumes published between poses in 1845 and 1850. Besides he held in the 1840s, numerous lectures in Polish to German literature and aesthetics in Poznan. One of its goals is to establish a national Polish philosophy was.

Political action in the pre-March

Libelt remained politically active. Between 1839 and 1845 the Libelt committee was to prepare a Polish uprising. Libelt 1841 was co-founder, secretary, and from 1844 Vice- President of the Association for Education Help in Poznan. In Poznan he belonged since 1844 to the City Council. In 1845 he co-founded the local industrial association. In 1845 he was also a member of the Polish Central Revolutionary Committee. At the beginning of 1846 he took part in the insurrection of Cracow. He was a member of the revolutionary Polish National Government and author of a manifesto Krakow.

Since 1846 there were in Prussia to a criminal case against him for high treason. He spent the remand in Poznan, Kuestrin and finally in Moabit. He was one of the main defendants in Poland trial before the Berlin Court of Appeal. This sentenced him to 20 years imprisonment. He was detained in Moabit The following months.

Revolution of 1848/49

After the liberation in the wake of the March Revolution of 1848, he took part in the province of Posen in the Polish uprising. Between March and April of the year Libelt was a member of the Polish National Committee and the Committee for the reorganization of the province of Posen. He was among a delegation that negotiated in Berlin in March 1848, the national reorganization of the province of Posen. Since April 1848 he was a member of the secret Polish National Government. He was one of the co-signatories of the Convention of Jaroslawiec between the Regorganisationskomitee and General of Willisen. In May 1848 he participated in the Congress Poland in Wroclaw and in June at the Slavic Congress in Prague in part. He was there chairman of the Polish- Russian section. He was co-author of the manifesto of the Slavic Evangelical Church of the peoples of Europe. In Berlin he was from October 1848 to the Editorial Board of the journal, the reform of. Between October 1848 and January 1849 he was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly. He was a member of the Group of Thunder Mountain.

Later years

Since June 1848 to 1850 he was a member of the Interim Director of the Polish League and he served as Director and Head of Publication and Education. In December 1848 he was a member of the Polish Electoral Commission for elections to the Prussian Landtag. In 1849 he was a member of the second chamber of the Prussian Landtag and was a member of the Polish faction. In addition, he was up to the ban by the authorities in 1850 editor of the newspaper Dziennik Polski (Polish Tageblatt). His writings appeared smaller in Poznan 1849-1851 in a collection of six volumes.

Since 1850 he was the owner of the manor Czeszewo. He was a founder and member of the local farmer's association. He was after 1860 the Society of Friends of Science in Poznan. Between 1868 and 1875 he was its chairman. Libelt co-founded the Commission for orthography and the Department of Economics and Statistics.

Between 1859 and 1870 he was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives from 1863 to 1866 and was Chairman of the Polish faction. A complete edition of his works appeared in Dziela his death in 1875, in six volumes.