Tadeusz Korzon (1839—1918) was a

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

specializing in the

history of Poland The history of Poland spans over a thousand years, from Lechites, medieval tribes, Christianization of Poland, Christianization and Kingdom of Poland, monarchy; through Polish Golden Age, Poland's Golden Age, Polonization, expansionism and be ...

Biography

Korzon was born to

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parents in

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, and as a youth he studied law at

Moscow University Moscow State University (MSU), officially M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University,. is a public research university in Moscow, Russia. The university includes 15 research institutes, 43 faculties, more than 300 departments, and six branches. Al ...

. He took part in the

January Uprising The January Uprising was an insurrection principally in Russia's Kingdom of Poland that was aimed at putting an end to Russian occupation of part of Poland and regaining independence. It began on 22 January 1863 and continued until the last i ...

(1863-1865) of Poles against the Russian occupation (

partitions of Poland The Partitions of Poland were three partition (politics), partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth that took place between 1772 and 1795, toward the end of the 18th century. They ended the existence of the state, resulting in the eli ...

) by organising pro-Polish patriotic demonstrations. After the defeat of the Uprising he was sentenced to death, later changed to exile to

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until 1867. Afterwards from 1869 he lived in Warsaw, where he became of the teachers in the

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. From 1897 he was the head librarian of the Biblioteka Zamojskich. From 1903 member of the

Polska Akademia Umiejętności The Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences or Polish Academy of Learning (, PAU), headquartered in Kraków and founded in 1872, is one of two institutions in contemporary Poland having the nature of an academy of sciences (the other being the Pol ...

Works

* ''Kurs historyi wieków średnich'' (Warsaw, 1871), * ''Nowe dzieje starożytnéj Mezopotamii i Iranu'' (1872), * ''Historycy pozytywisci" and "Poranek filozofii greckiej'' (Bibl. Warszawska), * ''Ludzie przehistoriczny'' (Tygodn. Illustrow.), * ''Historyja starożytną'' (Warsaw, 1876), * ''Stan ekonowiczny Polski w latach 1782—1792'' (Ateneum, 1877), * ''O życiu umysłowlym Grecyi'' (Tygodn. Illustrow.), * ''Historyk w obec swego narodu i w obec ludzkości'' (1878) His earliest work was related to the French and English system of punishments and was published in 1861. His main work was published by the Krakow academy of sciences "Wewnętrne dzieje Polski za Stanislawa-Augusta, 1764—94" (1882 - 1886) (4 tomes) and gave many new statistical, administrative and economic details about the internal life of Poland in the 18th century. One of his last works was the "Dzieje wojen i wojskowości w Polsce" (3 tomes) published in 1912.

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