Agaton Giller
Agaton Giller | |
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Born | 1831 |
Died | 1887 Stanisławów, Austro-Hungary | (aged 56)
Occupation | Polish politician, historian and journalist |
Agaton Giller (Opatówek, Congress Poland, Russian Empire, 1831 – 87, Stanisławów, Austro-Hungary) was a Polish historian, journalist and politician. He and his brother Stefan Giller played notable roles in the Polish independence movement and in the January 1863 Uprising.
Life[]
He was a participant in the January Uprising and was one of the leaders [1] of the "Red" faction among the insurrectionists as a member of the Central National Committee (Komitet Centralny Narodowy) and the (Tymczasowy Rząd Narodowy). After being exiled to Siberia by the Imperial Russian authorities, he became the first Siberian historian and biographer of other deported Poles.
Later, in exile in Paris, he was a journalist with such periodicals as Ojczyzna (The Fatherland) and Kurier Paryski (The Paris Courier), a founder of Polish self-assistance organizations, and a founder of the Polish National Museum in Rapperswil, in Switzerland's Canton of St. Gallen.
He wrote many historical and biographical works, articles and studies.
He died in 1887 in Stanisławów. In 1980 his grave was repatriated from the closed Ivano-Frankivsk cemetery to Warsaw's Powązki Cemetery.
Legacy[]
The Polish National Alliance, in the United States, considers Agaton Giller its "spiritual father."
See also[]
- List of Poles
References[]
- ^ Goonetilleke, D.C.R.A. (2007). Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness: A Routledge Study Guide. Taylor & Francis. p. 4. ISBN 9780203003787. Retrieved 2014-11-23.
External links[]
Giller, Agaton in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
- Works by or about Agaton Giller at Internet Archive
- Polish Museum (Polish Museum Rapperswil)
- Opatówek history - on The Giller Brothers' Communal Public Library in Opatówek page
- 1831 births
- 1887 deaths
- People from Kalisz County
- 19th-century Polish scholars
- Burials at Powązki Cemetery
- Polish historians
- Polish male non-fiction writers
- Polish journalists
- Polish politicians
- January Uprising participants
- Members of Polish government (January Uprising)
- Polish exiles in the Russian Empire
- People from Rapperswil-Jona
- 19th-century journalists
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- 19th-century historians
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