Wacław Rzewuski
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Wacław Piotr Rzewuski (1706–1779) was a Polish dramatist and poet as well as a military commander and a Grand Crown Hetman. As a notable nobleman and magnate, Rzewuski held a number of important posts in the administration of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Biography
He was a
Since 1778 he was the Castellan of
As a writer, Rzewuski authored a number of classicist comedies (including the 1759 play Natręt) and several historical tragedies, including a biography of Stanisław Żółkiewski (1758). He also published a number of poems and a poetic handbook On the Science of Poetry (1762). All of his works were published in 1962.
He was the great-grandfather of Ewelina Hańska, wife of French author Honoré de Balzac.[1]
Wife
Princess Anna Lubomirska (1717 — 1763) was a Polish noblewoman (Polish language:
She married Rzewuski in 1732.[3]
On September 14, 1748, while she stayed in Vienna, she was received the Order of the Starry Cross, which was the highest Austrian state badge for women at the time.[4]
Publications
- Nabożeństwo codzienne świętey pamięci Jeymości pani Anny z Xiążąt Lubomirskich Rzewuskiey Woiewodziny Krakowskiej, Hetmanowey polskiey Koronney, wyięte z książek Jey ręką pisanych (Warszawa, 1792),[5] second edition: Nabożeństwo codzienne wyjęte z książek jej ręką pisanych (Łuck, year unknown)[6]
Children
Wacław Rzewuski had ten children.[7] Five of them survived childhood:
- Great Chorąży of Lithuania
- Józef Rzewuski (1739–1816), general and member of the Sejm
- Seweryn Rzewuski (1743–1811), Field Hetman of the Crown
- Karol Stanisław Radziwiłł
- Maria Ludwika Rzewuska (1744–1816), married Jan Mikołaj Chodkiewicz[8]
Notes
- ISBN 2-234-05050-2. French. Page 3.
- ^ Sadok W. Barącz: Towarzysz duchowienstwa katolickiego. Vol. 1. Tarnopol 1864, p. 447.
- ^ "nina.gov.pl". Archived from the original on 2017-09-25. Retrieved 2017-11-21.
- ^ Jerzy Sewer Dunin Borkowski: Panie polskie przy dworze rakuskim. Lwów 1891, p. 77.
- ^ Staro Polska [dead link]
- ^ Estreicher: Bibliografia polska. Vol. 9. 1886 p. 652.
- ^ "Wacław Rzewuski h. Krzywda". Archived from the original on 2017-09-25. Retrieved 2017-11-21.
- ^ Dyspozycje Ludwiki Marii z Rzewuskich Chodkiewiczowej dotyczące dzieci, pp. 73-74.
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