Nicolas Chopin

Nicolas Chopin ( Polish Mikołaj Chopin, born April 15, 1771 in Marainville -sur -Madon, Lorraine; † May 3, 1844 in Warsaw ) was a French- Polish language teacher in Poland. He is the father of Frédéric Chopin.

Life

Nicolas Chopin's parents were the wheelwright François Chopin and his wife Marguerite born Deflin. On a winery Nicolas had his livelihood. When his father François Chopin (1737-1814) village representatives ( syndic ) of Marainville was, he got to know Poland. Among them were Michał Pac January and the estate manager Adam Weydlich.

Poland

When Pac died ( since 1780 Mr. village of Marainville ), Nicolas Chopin emigrated with the Weydlichs end 1787 (before the four- year-olds Sejm ) to Poland. He worked as an office worker and laborer. He participated in the Polish citizenship and fought in the Russo- Polish War and the Kosciuszko uprising on the Polish side of Poland. After the fall of Poland by the Second division, he earned his living as a private tutor of French Language at the szlachta. When Laczynska family (1795-1802), he taught the young Maria behaves. Walevska. From 1802 to 1810 was Ludwika Fenger- Skarbkowa ( 1765-1827 ) his employer. Her father was Jakob Fenger, a wealthy citizen of Toruń. She was the mother of Anna Skarbkówna (1793-1873) and Fryderyk Skarbek. Count Skarbek was sponsored by Frédéric Chopin. His son Józef (approx. 1818-1900 ) later married Chopin's fiancée Maria Wodzinska.

In this environment, Nicolas Chopin met Justyna Krzyżanowska, a relative Ludwikas from impoverished nobility. When he married on June 2, 1806, her family welcomed the connection. The marriage produced four children:

• Ludwika Chopin Jedrzejewicz (1807-1855)
• Fryderyk / Frédéric (1810-1849)
• Isabella Chopin Barcinska (1811-1881)
• Emilia (1812-1827)

Ludwika Skarbek was friend of Samuel Linde, the rector of the Liceum Warszawskie. The school was founded in 1804 in South Prussia as Royal Prussian Lyzäum to Warsaw in the Saxon Palace, and came in 1807 to the Duchy of Warsaw.

Warsaw

Ludwika helped Nicolas Chopin Samuel Linde to a position as a French teacher at the Liceum Warszawskie. From 1810, first as collaborator and from 1814 as a secondary school teacher, he remained there until the closure of the school in 1833. Several months after Frédéric Chopin's birth attracted to Warsaw. In the school building, they took on some sub-tenant; among them was Julian Fontana, who became friends with the adolescent Frédéric. For him, he was active until his emigration to America (1841 ) as a copyist, arranger, secretary, and impresario. As the University of Warsaw Liceum was closed after the November Uprising of Tsar Nicholas I.. In Congress Poland was Nicolas Chopin 1815 teacher at the Catholic seminary. He retired in 1837.

At the same time, he was from 1812 Professor of French at the SzkoĹ Elementarna Artylerii i Inżynierów, an artillery and engineering school. At the military school SzkoĹ Aplikacyjna Wojskowa he was from 1820 until its closure after the November Uprising. As the education system was reorganized, he should be hired in 1833 at the planned Pedagogical Institute. When halved withdrawals at Liceum he examined prospective teachers, and works for the teaching of French in public schools. When smashed the Institute plans, Nicolas Chopin went in 1837 to retire. For the Roman Catholic Church in Poland in the same year he was briefly a teacher at the Akademia Duchowna. For the national examination committee he remained active until 1841.

As before him his youngest daughter, and after him his son died at age 73 of tuberculosis. His wife survived him by 17 years. In a common grave he rests with her on Powązki cemetery.