Prince A prince is a Monarch, male ruler (ranked below a king, grand prince, and grand duke) or a male member of a monarch's or former monarch's family. ''Prince'' is also a title of nobility (often highest), often hereditary title, hereditary, in s ...

Adam Michał Czartoryski (1906–1998) was a Polish

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(

szlachcic The ''szlachta'' (Polish: endonym, Lithuanian: šlėkta) were the noble estate of the realm in the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth who, as a class, had the dominating position in t ...

) of the

Czartoryski The House of Czartoryski (feminine form: Czartoryska, plural: Czartoryscy; lt, Čartoriskiai) is a Polish princely family of Lithuanian- Ruthenian origin, also known as the Familia. The family, which derived their kin from the Gediminids dyn ...

magnate. Adam became a Master Engineer, forester and Doctor of Biology. He entered the

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and was promoted to the rank of captain in the

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, later becoming a member of the Armia Krajowa (pseudonym "Szpak"). He was owner of the

Głuszyn Głuszyn , is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Krasnopol, within Sejny County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. It lies approximately south-east of Krasnopol, south-west of Sejny, and north of the regional capita ...

, Babki and Wigry estates. He married Countess Jadwiga Tekla Stadnicka on 24 June 1937 in Nowojowa Castle. His children were Jerzy Andrzej Bobola Czartoryski, Maria Krystyna Czartoryska, Izabella Czartoryska, and Jadwiga Anna Czartoryska.

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