Feliks Sobański

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Count
Feliks Hilary Sobański
Count Feliks Sobański in the early 1900s
Full name
Feliks Hilary Ludwik Michał Sobański
Born(1833-01-11)11 January 1833
Ładyżyn, Podolia
Died29 November 1913(1913-11-29) (aged 80)
Paris, France
Noble familySobański
Spouse(s)Emilia Lubienska
IssueMichał
Kazimierz
Wiktoria
FatherLudwik Sobański
MotherRóża Łubieńska
Junosza arms, Sobański family crest

Feliks Hilary Ludwik Michał Sobański (born 11 January 1833 nr. Hajsyn

Masovia, Poland
.

Background

Sobański's mother, Róża, Siberian Rose

He was born into a Polish family of

Odessa. He did not go on to university, but travelled instead. While he was staying in Warsaw in 1852 a cholera
epidemic broke out. With his kinsman, Ogiński, he set up a field hospital and helped to treat the victims.

On his return to his home province, he was set to administer the family estates in Obodówką and Wasylówką. He was a member of the committee working to abolish Serfdom in Poland, which eventually happened in 1864 in the Russian Partition.

Emilia, wife of Feliks

In 1857 he married Emilia Łubieńska, a cousin. They had two sons, Michał and Kazimierz and a daughter, Wiktoria. From 1857 onwards, having acquired it at auction, he ran the vast 6,000 hectare estate of

Guzów. It was a sale arising out of the confiscation of his and his wife's uncle Henryk's property due to charges of fraud.[4] Following the death in 1869 of his relative, Eustachy Jełowicki, another November Uprising veteran, Sobański became the legal guardian of his five children.[5][6]

Career

Peter and Paul Fortress, St. Petersburg

Sobański (like his father before him) was elected marshal of the nobility for the district of

Russian Senate
to exile in the depths of Russia. He was later allowed to move to Odessa and, finally, given leave to return to Podolia.

Following his release he travelled to France. While in

International Red Cross to hire an ambulance and personally assisted in the removal of the wounded from the battlefield. Between 1872 and 1885 he concentrated on estate and rural matters. He invested huge sums in rebuilding and refashioning the Guzów Palace, turning it into a French renaissance-style palace with a park in the English style. He was also concerned with the welfare of rural workers.[7]

In 1875, he became a co-founder of the

Zachęta. He ran an architectural competition under its auspices in 1878 to design a parish church for the Mill town of Żyrardów, for which he donated the land.[9] Also with the arts academy, he sponsored scholarships for young artists. He was involved in the Stanisław Moniuszko
Music Society, which raised funds to aid the impoverished composer.

Sobański financed an extensive portfolio of church and other buildings and monuments, such as in

Leo XIII
.

Foundations

Among his other philanthropic projects were:

Later years

Sobański supported financially many social institutions in his homeland as well as in Paris, where there was a substantial Polish diaspora and where he settled for the last dozen years of his life. He participated in the cultural life of the capital and joined the Historical and Literary Society there. His final bounty was to give 100,000 roubles to the Polish rural workers retirement fund and 30,000 roubles to buy potatoes for the rural poor of Galicia suffering a period of famine. He died in Paris 1913 and was buried in the crypt of the church of St. Augustin.[11] His remains were transferred to Obodówka in Podolia, shortly after the outbreak of World War I, but border controls prevented his family from abroad attending the interment.[12]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Ludwik Sobański".
  2. ^ "Róża (Rozalia) Sobańska (Z domu Łubieńska)". Archived from the original on 2020-06-18. Retrieved 2017-01-22.
  3. ^ Borkowski, Genealogie; Drzewo genealogiczne 64-herbowe po mieczu i kądzieli Sobańskich, Łubieńskich, Jełowickich, Drohojowskich, W. 1912 s. 9–10, 47–8.
  4. ^ Gajewski M., Urządzenia komunalne Warszawy, W. 1979; Jaroszewski T. S., Baraniewski W., Pałace i dwory w okolicach Warszawy, W. 1992 s. 43
  5. ^ "Feliks Hilary Michał Ludwik Sobański". Archived from the original on 2016-08-19. Retrieved 2017-01-22.
  6. ^ biogram Feliksa Sobańskiego z Centralnej Biblioteki Rolniczej w Warszawie: http://www.cbr.edu.pl/rme-archiwum/2005/rme8/stronki/2.html
  7. ^ Słownik polskich towarzystw naukowych, Wr. 1978 I
  8. ^ Koperska T., Łukomska E., Bibliografia do dziejów Muzeum Przemysłu i Rolnictwa za l. 1875–1939
  9. ^ K. Zwoliński, Zakłady żyrardowskie w latach 1885-1915, Książka i Wiedza, Warszawa 1979, str. 197
  10. ^ List Ludwika Górskiego do ks. Jana Tadeusza Lubomirskiego w sprawie "rachunków Kolumny Zygmunta" 24.06.1888 (AGAD - zespół "Stara Wieś").
  11. ^ "Bulletin Polonais Littéraire, Scientifique et Artistique" 1913 nr 305 p. 404
  12. ^ biogram Feliksa Sobańskiego z Centralnej Biblioteki Rolniczej w Warszawie: http://www.cbr.edu.pl/rme-archiwum/2005/rme8/stronki/2.html

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