Author
Stefan Buszczyński 1821-1892

He completed his studies in Kyiv. In his youth, he was connected with more radical and conspiratorial circles but in the course of time turned towards more conservative views, doubting of the success of armed resistance. His doubts found expression in his pamphlet Cierpliwość czy rewolucja, published in Paris in 1862. Nevertheless, after the outbreak of January Uprising he involved himself in the insurgents’ activities in Ukraine. Following the fall of the rebellion, he spent several years in exile. Towards the end of the 1860’s Buszczyński moved to Kraków, where he sought an assistant-professorship at the Jagiellonian University, but his candidacy was blocked by the local Conservative circles (particularly by Józef Szujski). This setback made him leave Poland once again and stay in Dresden and then in Graz. He only returned to his homeland towards the end of his life. Buszczyński’s works include Podole, Wołyń i Ukraina. Prawa korony polskiej do tych krajów (1862), La decadence de l’Europe (1867; a famous work read by, among others, Napoleon III or Victor Hugo), Ameryka i Europa. Studium historyczne i finansowe z krytycznym na sprawy społeczne poglądem (1876), Rany Europy. Statystyczne fakta etnograficznemi i historycznemi notami objaśnione (published first in German, as Die Wunden Europa’s, 1875).

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