Karol Marcinkowski

Karol Marcinkowski ( born June 23, 1800, Poznan, † November 6, 1846 in Dąbrówka Ludomska, Posen Province) was a Polish physician and reformer. In Warsaw he took part in the November Uprising against Russian rule in Congress Poland. Later he initiated in the Prussian province of Posen cultural, scientific and economic institutions.

Life

Marcinkowski studied medicine at the Friedrich- Wilhelms- University of Berlin and received his doctorate in 1823 for Dr. med. Afterwards he worked as a doctor in Poznan. In the November Uprising, he emigrated to England and later to Paris. In 1835 he returned to Poznan. Because of its unauthorized crossing of the border by 1830 he was sentenced in 1837 to imprisonment, but soon pardoned it.

After the accession of Friedrich Wilhelm IV to temporarily improved the scope of the Polish minority in the Kingdom of Prussia. After the replacement of Eduard von Flottwell as Oberpräsident it came to make concessions on the language issue.

In this situation, rejected some of the politically active landowners and intellectuals, including Marcinkowski belonged, from the Going for a violent expulsion of the partitioning powers. They sat instead on the program Organic work. Especially in the field of economics and education, it was then, to strengthen the Polish population.

Marcinkowski founded 1841 Society for the Scientific Help ( Towarzystwo Pomocy Naukowej ), which was mentioned in the German vernacular Marcinkowski Club or Marcinkowski Foundation. They awarded scholarships for destitute Polish students. The Marcinkowski Club contributed significantly to that in poses a Polish middle class emerged. In addition, he sought the economic promotion. With the so-called Posener bazaar a business center and a hotel emerged. A Polish national theater and an agricultural school could not be realized.

The Medical University of Poznan bears his name since 1984. Other institutions and streets are named after him.