Leonard Chodźko

Leonard Borejko Chodźko (1800–1871) was a Polish historian, geographer, cartographer, publisher, archivist, and activist of Poland's post-November-1830-Uprising Great Emigration.

Leonard Chodźko
Coat of armsKościesza
Born1800
Oborek
Died(1871-03-12)March 12, 1871
Poitiers
FamilyChodźko
FatherLudwik Chodźko
MotherWaleria z Dederków

Life

Chodźko was educated at the University of Vilnius, where he was a member of the Philomaths, a secret organization established in 1816 by Vilnius University students including Adam Mickiewicz, Tomasz Zan and Józef Jeżowski.[1]

From 1826 he lived in Paris. During France's July 1830 Revolution, he served as aide-de-camp to General La Fayette.

Works
  • Histoire des légions polonaises en Italie (1829)
  • Histoire populaire de la Pologne (1863)
  • Les Polonais en Italie (1829)
  • Tableau de la Pologne ancienne et moderne sous le rapport géographique, statistique, géologique etc. (1830)
  • Biographie du géneral Kościuszko (1837)
  • Massacres de Galicie et Cracovie confisquée par l'Autriche en 1846 (1861)
  • Un évêque polonais, le métropolitain Kazimir Gaspard Colonna Cieciszewski et son temps (1745-1831) (1866)
  • Recueil des traités, conventions, actes diplomatiques etc. relatifs à la Pologne, de 1762 á 1862.
  • Notice biographique sur Joachim Lelewel ; Paris, 1834
  • Le Congrès de Vienne et les traités de 1815, précédés et suivis des actes diplomatiques qui s'y rattachent ; 1863 / 1864 ; éditeur : Amyot ; Paris ; 4 vol.
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See also

Notes
  1. "Filomaci," Encyklopedia Polski, p. 164.
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