Kazimierz Lutosławski (; 4 March 1880,

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- 5 January 1924, Drozdowo,

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) was a Polish physician, priest and

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founder and activist. He designed the Krzyż Harcerski (Polish Scouting Cross). Kazimierz was born in 1880 at an estate in Drozdowo northeast of Warsaw to a Polish family of

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Franciszek Dionizy Lutosławski and his second wife Paulina ''

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'' Szczygielska, highly educated members of the landed gentry. Kazimierz became one of Franciszek's six notable sons. He received doctorate in medicine in

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, Switzerland. Kazimierz was the fifth son of Franciszek. His older brother

Marian Lutosławski Marian Lutosławski (1871 – 5 September 1918) was a Polish mechanical engineer and inventor born during the foreign partitions of Poland. He studied at the Technical University in Riga, then also part of Russia, and obtained a diploma in electri ...

, famous inventor and humanitarian, was murdered by the Bolsheviks near Moscow together with his other brother Józef Lutosławski, the father of composer

Witold Lutosławski Witold Roman Lutosławski (; 25 January 1913 – 7 February 1994) was a Polish composer and conductor. Among the major composers of 20th-century classical music, he is "generally regarded as the most significant Polish composer since Szymanow ...

. Witold was Kazimierz Lutosławski's nephew. Historian Paul Brykczynsk described Lutosławski as a sophisticated parliamentary, prolific writer, spirited street orator and rabid

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who advocated in his writings and speeches for a "Polish majority" in Poland.Primed for Violence: Murder, Antisemitism, and Democratic Politics in Interwar Poland
Paul Brykczynski, University of Wisconsin Press, page 25

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Kazimierz Kazimierz (; ; ) is a historical district of Kraków and Kraków Old Town, Poland. From its inception in the 14th century to the early 19th century, Kazimierz was an independent city, a royal city of the Crown of the Polish Kingdom, located sou ...