Agaton Giller (Opatówek, Congress Poland, Russian Empire, 1831 – 1887, Stanisławów, Austro-Hungary) was a Polish historian, journalist and politician. He and his brother Stefan Giller played notable roles in the Polish independence movement and in the January 1863 Uprising.
Agaton Giller | |
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| Born | 1831 |
| Died | 1887 (aged 56) |
| Occupation(s) | Politician, historian and journalist |
Life
editHe was a participant in the January Uprising and was one of the leaders[1] of the "Red" faction among the insurrectionists as a member of the Central National Committee (Komitet Centralny Narodowy) and the Provisional National Government (Tymczasowy Rząd Narodowy). After being exiled to Siberia by the Imperial Russian authorities, he became the first Siberian historian and biographer of other deported Poles.
Later, in exile in Paris, he was a journalist with such periodicals as Ojczyzna (The Fatherland) and Kurier Paryski (The Paris Courier), a founder of Polish self-assistance organizations, and a founder of the Polish National Museum in Rapperswil, in Switzerland's Canton of St. Gallen.
He wrote many historical and biographical works, articles and studies.
He died in 1887 in Stanisławów. In 1980 his grave was repatriated from the closed Ivano-Frankivsk cemetery to Warsaw's Powązki Cemetery.
Legacy
editThe Polish National Alliance, in the United States, considers Agaton Giller its "spiritual father."
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Goonetilleke, D.C.R.A. (2007). Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness: A Routledge Study Guide. Taylor & Francis. p. 4. ISBN 9780203003787. Retrieved 2014-11-23.
External links
editGiller, Agaton in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
- Works by or about Agaton Giller at the Internet Archive
- Polish Museum (Polish Museum Rapperswil)
- Opatówek history - on The Giller Brothers' Communal Public Library in Opatówek page
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