Adam Gurowski
Count Adam Gurowski (September 10, 1805, in Russocice near Kalisz, Poland – May 4, 1866, in Washington, D.C.) was a Polish-born author who emigrated to the United States in 1849.
Biography
He was a son of the Count Władysław Gurowski, an ardent admirer of
Returning to Warsaw in 1825, he became identified with those opposed to Russian influence, and was in consequence several times imprisoned. He was active in organizing the
He married Theresa de Zbijewska in 1827. They had two children. Theresa died in 1832.[3]
In 1835, he published a work entitled La vérité sur la Russie, in which he advocated a union of the different branches of the
In 1849, he went to the United States, where he engaged in literary pursuits and became deeply interested in American politics.
From 1861 to 1863, he was translator in the
Count Gurowski died in May 1866 and was buried in Congressional Cemetery. Whitman considered the tempestuous count a friend and attended his funeral. "His funeral was simple but very impressive—all the big radicals were there," Whitman wrote.[5]
Works
- La civilisation et la Russie (St. Petersburg, 1840)
- Russland und die Civilisation (Übersetzer : Alvensleben) (Leipzig, 1841)
- Pensées sur l'avenir des Polonais (Berlin, 1841)
- Aus meinem Gedankenbuche (Breslau, 1843)
- Eine Tour durch Belgien (Heidelberg, 1845)
- Impressions et souvenirs (Lausanne, 1846)
- Die letzten Ereignisse in den drei Theilen des alten Polen (The latest events in the three parts of old Poland; Munich, 1846)
- Le Panslavisme (Florence, 1848)
- Russia as it Is (New York, 1854)
- The Turkish Question (1854)
- A Year of the War (1855)
- America and Europe (1857)
- Slavery in History (1860)
- My Diary, notes on the Civil War (3 vols., 1862–66)
References
- ^ a b c d e f One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1892). . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
- ^ "de Gurowski, Adam Count (1805–1866). Journalist, Essayist, Reformer, Historian, Lecturer, Translator". Biographies. The Vault at Pfaff's. Leigh University Library. Archived from the original on July 6, 2010. Retrieved January 27, 2012.
- ^ a b c d Fischer, Le Roy H. (1944). "Gurowski, Adam". Dictionary of American Biography. Vol. Supplement One. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
- ^ L. E. Chittenden memoir, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Lincoln administration, published 1891.
- ^ ISBN 978-1626199736.
External links
- Works by Adam Gurowski at Project Gutenberg
- Fischer, LeRoy H. (December 1949). "Lincoln's Gadfly — Adam Gurowski" (PDF). Mississippi Valley Historical Review. 36 (3): 415–434. JSTOR 1893015. Archived from the original(PDF) on April 25, 2012. Retrieved January 27, 2012.
- "The Vault at Pfaff's: de Gurowski, Adam Count". Lehigh University. Archived from the original on July 6, 2010. Retrieved January 27, 2012. Biography with portrait.