Edward Dembowski

Edward Dembowski at head of 27 February 1846 Kraków Uprising procession

Edward Dembowski's gravestone

Edward Dembowski (31 May 1822 – 27 February 1846) was a Polish philosopher, literary critic, journalist, and leftist independence activist.

Life

Edward Dembowski was the son of Julia, née Kochanowska, and a conservative castellan-voivode of the Congress Poland, Leon Dembowski. On account of Edward's szlachta origins and contrasting radical social views, he was called "the red castellan's-son."

Dembowski published Przegląd Naukowy (The Learned Review), a journal for young, independence-minded intelligentsia.

In 1842–43 Dembowski conducted underground revolutionary activities in the Russian-ruled Congress Poland. Later, being at risk of arrest by Russian authorities, he transferred to Prussian-ruled Greater Poland.

During the 1846 Kraków Uprising, Dembowski was secretary to dictator Jan Tyssowski. Dembowski died on 27 February 1846 at Podgórze, shot by Austrian troops as he was leading a procession to conduct agitation among the peasants.

In his philosophical views, Dembowski was a leftist Hegelian.

See also

• History of philosophy in Poland
• List of Poles

References

• "Dembowski, Edward," Encyklopedia Polski (Encyclopedia of Poland), Kraków, Wydawnictwo Ryszard Kluszczyński, 1996, ISBN 83-86328-60-6, p. 128.
• Władysław Tatarkiewicz, Zarys dziejów filozofii w Polsce (A Brief History of Philosophy in Poland), [in the series:] Historia nauki polskiej w monografiach (History of Polish Learning in Monographs), [volume] XXXII, Kraków, Polska Akademia Umiejętności (Polish Academy of Learning), 1948. This monograph draws from pertinent sections in earlier editions of the author's Historia filozofii (History of Philosophy).
• Leszek Sykulski, Edward Dembowski (1822–1846). Biografia polityczna (Edward Dembowski (1822–1846: A Political Biography), Toruń, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Grado, 2006.
• Obraz literatury polskiej XIX i XX wieku. Seria 3. Literatura krajowa w okresie romantyzmu: 1831-1863 (Polish Literature of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Series 3: Literature in the Romantic Period: 1831–1863), vol. 2.