Stefan Bobrowski

Deceased Person

1840 – 1863

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Who was Stefan Bobrowski?

Stefan Bobrowski was a Polish 19th-century politician and an activist for Polish independence. Bobrowski was a participant in the January Uprising and was one of the leaders of the "Red" faction among the insurrectionists as a member of the Central National Committee and the Provisional National Government. He advocated land reform and an end to serfdom in order to rally peasants to the cause, while at the same time he tried to ensure support of the szlachta. He also tried to establish links with potential revolutionaries within Russia who opposed the Tsar. He died in 1863 in a duel with a member of the "White" faction, Count Adam Grabowski, to which he agreed but which he was sure to lose, on account of his extreme near-sightedness.

Bobrowski was an uncle of the writer Joseph Conrad, and a possible basis for the main protagonist in Conrad's Lord Jim.

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Born
Jan 17, 1840
Berdychiv
Died
Apr 12, 1863
Kraków

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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