Krzysztof Arciszewski

Engineer, Military Person

1592 – 1656

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Who was Krzysztof Arciszewski?

Krzysztof Arciszewski, military officer, engineer, and ethnographer. A General of artillery for Holland, and Poland .

As a young man he served under Krzysztof Radziwiłł. After murdering Kacper Jaruzel Brzeźnicki, he was condemned to infamy and exile, and left Poland in 1623. He went to Holland where he settled in the Hague. Thanks to support of Krzysztof Radziwiłł he was able to study artillery, military engineering and navigation at Leiden University. In 1637 he became a vice-governor of Dutch Brazil and head chief of Dutch military forces in that country.

In 1646 he returned to Poland, where he became General of the Artillery.

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Born
Dec 9, 1592
Nationality
  • Poland
Profession
Died
Apr 7, 1656

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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