Zygmunt Kurnatowski

Zygmunt Kurnatovsky (* 1778 in Pożarów, † 1858 in Warsaw) was a Polish nobleman and Earl of tribal Lodzia. He was Major General of the Royal Polish army of the 19th century.

Born from a family of devout members of the Polish Reformed Church, he participated in the Great Poland Uprising of 1806. He then joined the Army of the Napoleonic Duchy of Warsaw and made ​​all the campaigns of the duchy with.

In 1810 he reached the rank of Colonel in 1814 to a general and commander of the cavalry brigade. He fought until the end of the Napoleonic army. Then he returned to Poland and joined the Polish royal army.

From 1823 he was commander of the Reserve Corps, in 1828 adjutant of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia. As a member of a military court, he called for the condemnation of the Polish freedom fighter Walerian Łukasiński. In November 1830 Uprising, he fought the Polish insurgents and escaped with difficulty the fate of other generals. He swore an oath of allegiance to the Polish nation and retired from active service. After the defeat of the rebels, he joined briefly in Russian service, but already in 1832 he was dismissed from the Tsar.

He was buried in the cemetery of Calvinist Orzeszkowo in the Podlaskie Voivodeship near Poznan.

• Noble
• Military person (Poland )
• Freemasons (Poland )
• Pole
• Born in 1778
• Died in 1858
• Man