Karol Libelt
Karol Libelt (8 April 1807, neighborhood of Chwaliszewo in Poznań, Duchy of Warsaw - 9 June 1875, Brdowo) was a Polish philosopher, writer, political and social activist, social worker and liberal, nationalist politician, and president of the Poznań Society of Friends of Learning.
Life and work
Libelt took part in the failed
In 1849 he was elected a member of the Prussian parliament and became the director of the liberal Dziennik Polski (Polish Daily). The following year Libelt began to establish various scientific and social organisations in Greater Poland, including the Society of Friends of the Sciences in Posen (Poznań), which became a de facto university. Between 1868 and 1875 he headed the Society and gave lectures in aesthetics. In 1873, he was elected to the Prussian Lower House.
In his philosophical works, Libelt described the so-called
Writings
- Filozofia i krytyka, Hegelian in tendency (1845–50)
- Estetyka (1851)
- Umnictevo, a system of ethics (1857)
- Dziela (1875)
- Zbior pism pomniejszych, political papers (1849–51)
- Dziewica Orléanska (1847)
- Humor i pravada, sketches (1852)
See also
References
- Witold Jakóbczyk, Przetrwać na Wartą 1815-1914, Dzieje narodu i państwa polskiego, vol. III-55, Krajowa Agencja Wydawnicza, Warszawa 1989
- New International Encyclopedia(1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.