Wysłouch

Odyniec, the family coat of arms.
Pirkowicze, 1938.

Wysłouch (Wisłouch, Visłavuch and others) is the name of a Polish-Lithuanian aristocratic family. It traces its lineage back to 1385 when, along with other major Lithuanian noble clans, its forbears were admitted to the ranks of Polish nobility. The line begins with Stanisław Kościa, a Polish knight born in 1390; however, the first mention of the Wysłouch family name was recorded in a document dating from the first half of the 16th century.[1] The Wysłouch family uses the "Odyniec" coat of arms.

Political involvement

The family produced a number of politicians and public activists. In the 16th century, a number of Wysłouchs held important public offices, including a Royal Castellany,[1] and at the end of the 18th century Zenon Kazimierz Wysłouch was one of the members of the Great Sejm, the Polish Parliament which created the Constitution of May 3, 1791.[2] Bolesław and Antoni Izydor Wysłouch were prominent liberal politicians and members of the Parliament in the inter-war period, the former being a co-founder of the PPS "Piast" party.

Independence movement

Members of the Wysłouch family were involved in the independence movement during the Partitions of Poland. At the end of the 18th century, Emmanuel Wysłouch was an officer serving in the Polish Legions during Napoleon's campaign in Italy. In the 19th century, Antoni Wysłouch and his wife, Teofila, took an active part in the January Uprising; they were close friends with the uprising leader, Romuald Traugutt, and Eliza Orzeszkowa, a well-known positivist writer.[3]

The family owned the estates of Pirkowicze, Sacha, Leżajka and others, most of which are currently abandoned or ruined. The exception is Pirkowicze house, now in Belarus, which serves as a local school.

Descendants of the family include, among others, Małgorzata Sąsiadek, a renowned medicine professor at the University of Wrocław, and Stefan Cieśla, a Warsaw lawyer and banker.[4] Both of them were involved in Solidarność, the opposition movement in the People's Republic of Poland.

Notable members

References

Citations
  1. 1 2 Pociecha, "Królowa Bona: czasy i ludzie Odrodzenia". Poznań, 1949.
  2. Davies, Norman (1996). Europe: A History. Oxford University Press. p. 699. ISBN 0-19-820171-0.
  3. „Anna Ostrowska nee Wysłouch: Antoni Wysłouch, Radzima.org“
  4. http://www.sejm-wielki.pl/sejmwielki?m=TT;sm=S;t=(linia%3A+Zenon+Wys%B3ouch+sw.10062);p=
  5. Jan Pachoński, "Słownik biograficzny oficerów Legionów Polskich 1796-1807"
  6. Mazurek, "Kraj a emigracja". Instytut Studiów Iberyjskich i Iberoamerykańskich, Warsaw, 2006, p 169
  7. 1 2 "List of the Virtuti Militari recipients, Polish Army Museum"
  8. "Encyklopedia WIEM"
Bibliography
  • Wysłouchowa, "Echa Polesia (introduction)". London, Polska Fundacja Kulturalna, 1979.
  • Jonca, Seweryn Wysłouch, in: Uczeni wrocławscy (1945–1979) (edited by Jan Trzynadlowski), Ossolineum, Wrocław, 1980
  • Bartoszewicz "Konstytucja 3go Maja", Warszawa 1989.

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