Franciszek Siarczyński (1758–1829) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest, member of the Piarist religious order, historian, geographer, teacher, writer and publicist.
Franciszek Siarczyński
Nationality
Polish
Occupation
Catholic Priest
Known for
Director of the National Library of the Ossolineum
The former building of the Ossolineum Institute in Lwów, now Ukraine
He was a lecturer of grammar, history and geography at the Collegium Nobilium in Warsaw, Poland from 1781 to 1785. He was a regular guest at the Thursday Dinners held by the King of Poland, Stanisław August Poniatowski in the era of the Enlightenment in Poland. He was the author of three volumes of ‘Geografii, czyli opisania naturalnego, historycznego i politycznego krajów i narodów’(Geography, natural history, history and politics of the country and its citizens).
At the time of the Kościuszko Uprising in 1794, he wrote for the Gazeta Wolna Warszawska (The Free Warsaw newspaper).[1]
He collected material for the Słownika historyczno-statystyczno-geograficznego Galicji (The Encyclopædia of history, statistics and geography of Galicia), which was published in parts from 1857 as a weekly supplement ‘Rozmaitościach’ in the Lwów Gazette: Gazeta Lwowska.
After the transfer of the Ossoliński family's collection of books, from Vienna to Lwów, in 1827, he became the first director of the National Library of the Ossolineum, from 1827 to 1829.
Parts translated from the Polish version of this page from Polish Wikipedia on 03.11.2008
Notes
^Antoni Trębicki ‘Opisanie Sejmu ekstraordynaryjnego podziałowego roku 1793 w Grodnie. O rewolucji roku 1794′, opracował i wstępem poprzedził Jerzy Kowecki, Warsaw 1967, page 549.
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