The
Kraków Uprising of February 1846 was an attempt,
led by Edward Dembowski, to incite
a Polish
fight for
national independence. Even though most of Poland (Congress Poland
) was part of the Russian Empire
, the Polish risings were conducted mainly in
Prussia (the Greater Poland Uprising 1846)
and in the Austrian
Empire
.
History
Most of
the uprising was limited to the Free City of Kraków
, where Jagiellonian University philosophy
professor Michał Wiszniewski
acted as its chief for a day, to be followed by Rector Jan Tyssowski.[59082]
Teofil Wiśniowski, the
President of the Uprising Tribunal in the Austrian province of
Galizien, led a
short-lived uprising in Eastern Galicia, which saw a battle at
Narajów involving Austrian
hussars.
The revolts were quickly suppressed by the Austrian army that
cooperated with local peasants.
Subsequently Kraków and its surrounding area
were annexed to the Kingdom of Galicia and
Lodomeria, a province of the Austrian Empire, with its capital at Lemberg
(Lwów,
Lviv).
Notes
- "Austriacy wraz z polskimi chłopami zadali powstańcom klęskę
pod Gdowem 26 lutego
1846, zaś chłopi wymordowali wielu powstańców": Historia
Polski by Michał Tymowski, Jan Kieniewicz,
Jerzy Holzer,
Warsaw, 1990, p. 234.
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