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Count Valerian Krasinski
d. 1855
An exiled Polish aristocrat and historian, he wrote widely on the Reformation, the Slavic world, and Poland’s political struggles. His life joined scholarship with firsthand experience of 19th-century upheaval.
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Essai sur l'Histoire Religieuse des Nations Slaves (traduit de l'anglais)
by Count Valerian Krasinski
About the author
Born in 1795, Count Valerian Krasinski, better known in modern references as Walerian Krasiński, was a Polish Calvinist historian and journalist from the lands of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, in what is now Belarus. He studied at Vilnius University and later became known for writing about the religious and political history of Poland and other Slavic nations.
After the November Uprising of 1830–1831, he went into exile in Britain. There he continued his literary and historical work, publishing studies on the Reformation in Poland and on the religious history of the Slavic peoples. Sources also note that he was proposed for a chair in Slavonic Studies at Oxford in 1844, showing the respect his scholarship earned in Britain.
He died on December 22, 1855, in Edinburgh. Available page images located during this search did not show a clear portrait of him, so no profile image is included here.