Ludwik Waryński

Ludwik Tadeusz Waryński (born 12 Septemberjul / September 24 1856greg in Martynovka, Ukraine, .. † March 2, 1889 in detention at the fortress Schlüsselburg ) was a Polish politician and founder of the first Polish Workers' Party " proletariat " (1882).

Life

His father took part in the January Uprising in 1863. From 1865 onwards, Ludwik attended high school in Bila Tserkva, and in 1874 he began studying in St. Petersburg, but he had to cancel the next year due to student unrest. In 1876 he settled in Warsaw and established the first socialist magazine in Russian Congress Poland. At the same time he attended the agricultural school in Pulawy, worked in Warsaw as editor of two socialist newspapers, as a fitter in a factory. 1879 found him the tsarist police in Warsaw and expelled him from Russia.

He moved to Lviv to Krakow and later, both at that time belonged to the Austrian Galicia, and sit where he continued his socialist work. He was arrested by the Austrian police on 8 February in 1879 and remained in custody until his trial in February 1880 in which he acquitted, but the country was expelled and moved to Switzerland to Geneva. Waryński wrote the so-called Brussels program, an ideological positioning of the Polish Socialists. During his stay in Switzerland, he took part in an International Socialist Congress in Chur and met his future wife Anna Sieroszewska, with whom he had a son named Tadeusz.

1882 Waryński returned back to Warsaw, where he founded " proletariat ", the first Polish Workers' Party. In 1883 he was arrested by the Tsarist secret police and convicted after a trial along with 29 co-defendants to 16 years in prison on the fortress Schlüsselburg, where he died six years later of tuberculosis.

About the circumstances of his death, the Polish poet Władysław Broniewski wrote an elegy.

• Russian emigrant
• Pole
• Born in 1856
• Died in 1889
• Man