Stanisław Plater | |
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Died | 8 May 1851 | (aged 66)
Nationality | Polish-Lithuanian |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Historian, geographer, statistician, encyclopedist |
Stanisław Plater ( Lithuanian: Stanislovas Pliateris; 10 May 1784 – 8 May 1851) was a Polish-Lithuanian historian, geographer, officer. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Stanisław Plater was born in 1784 in Daugėliškis, Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. [2] He came from the noble Plater family. [2] His father was Kazimierz Konstanty Plater , the last Lithuanian Vice-Chancellor, and his mother was Izabela née Borch, the first editor of a children's magazine in Poland, who published the weekly magazine Przyjaciel Dzieci in Warsaw in 1789–1792. [2] Plater had ten siblings: 4 sisters and 6 brothers. [2] One of his brothers was Ludwik August Plater (1775–1846), who was the senator-castellan of the Congress Poland who participated in the Kościuszko Uprising and November Uprising as well as a forestry activist. [2]
He was a graduate of the Vilnius Main School. [5] In 1806–1815, he served as an officer in the army of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Russian campaign, rising to the rank of lieutenant. In 1815, he became a captain in the army of Congress Poland, but was soon dismissed. He moved to Greater Poland, where he married Antonina Gajewska (1790-1866). He settled in Wroniawy, which was brought by his wife as a dowry. Later, he also lived for a long time in Poznań and in Paris. [2] [3]
He published a number of works on geography, military and history in Polish and French. [6] In 1827, he published a pioneering statistical work, Statistical Atlas of Poland and surrounding countries. [6] Moreover, he was an encyclopedist and author of the two-volume Mała Encyclopedia Polska . [6]
He was awarded the title of Knight of the Military Order of the Duchy of Warsaw (Virtuti Militari) and the Order of the Red Eagle of the Kingdom of Prussia. [1]
In 1851, he died in Wolsztyn and was buried in the parish church. [7]