Stanisław Plater
Born(1784-05-10)10 May 1784
Senasis Daugėliškis, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Died8 May 1851(1851-05-08) (aged 66)
Wolsztyn, Province of Posen, Kingdom of Prussia
NationalityPolish-Lithuanian
Parents
  • Kazimierz Konstanty Plater (father)
  • Izabela née Borch (mother)
Scientific career
FieldsHistorian, geographer, statistician, encyclopedist

Stanisław Plater (Lithuanian: Stanislovas Pliateris; 10 May 1784 – 8 May 1851) was a Polish-Lithuanian historian, geographer, officer.[1][2][3][4]

Biography

Stanisław Plater was born in 1784 in Daugėliškis, Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.[2] He came from the noble Plater family.[2] His father was Kazimierz Konstanty Plater, the last Lithuanian Vice-Chancellor, and his mother was Izabela née Borch, the first editor of a children's magazine in Poland, who published the weekly magazine Przyjaciel Dzieci in Warsaw in 1789–1792.[2] Plater had ten siblings: 4 sisters and 6 brothers.[2] One of his brothers was Ludwik August Plater (1775–1846), who was the senator-castellan of the Congress Poland who participated in the Kościuszko Uprising and November Uprising as well as a forestry activist.[2]

He was a graduate of the Vilnius Main School.[5] In 1806–1815, he served as an officer in the army of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Russian campaign, rising to the rank of lieutenant. In 1815, he became a captain in the army of Congress Poland, but was soon dismissed. He moved to Greater Poland, where he married Antonina Gajewska (1790-1866). He settled in Wroniawy, which was brought by his wife as a dowry. Later, he also lived for a long time in Poznań and in Paris.[2][3]

He published a number of works on geography, military and history in Polish and French.[6] In 1827, he published a pioneering statistical work, Statistical Atlas of Poland and surrounding countries.[6] Moreover, he was an encyclopedist and author of the two-volume Mała Encyclopedia Polska.[6]

He was awarded the title of Knight of the Military Order of the Duchy of Warsaw (Virtuti Militari) and the Order of the Red Eagle of the Kingdom of Prussia.[1]

In 1851, he died in Wolsztyn and was buried in the parish church.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 Borkowski, Jerzy Sewer Dunin (1908). Almanach błękitny: genealogia żyjących rodów polskich (in Polish). p. 701. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Olszewicz, Bolesław (1999). Materiały do słownika kartografów i geodetów polskich: archiwalia z dawnej Pracowni Historii Geografii i Kartografii Bolesława Olszewicza”, hasło „Plater Stanisław (in Polish). Warsaw: Retro-Art. p. 163. ISBN 978-83-908973-8-7.
  3. 1 2 Praca zbiorowa: hasło Plater w: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon. 4. Auflage. Band 13. Leipzig/Wien: Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts, 1885, p. 118.
  4. ↑ "Plater Stanisław". Bibliotekawolsztyn.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 22 September 2023.
  5. ↑ Kamińska, Janina. Universitas Vilnensis 1793-1803, Od Szkoły Głównej Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego do Imperatorskiego Uniwersytetu Wileńskiego (in Polish). University of Warsaw. p. 404. ISBN 978-83-235-3289-7.
  6. 1 2 3 Gloger, Zygmunt (1901). hasło „Encyklopedie polskie” w Encyklopedia staropolska ilustrowana (in Polish). Warszawa: Druk P. Laskauera i W. Babickiego. pp. 130–135.
  7. ↑ "Platerowie dla kościoła w Kębłowie". Keblowo.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 22 September 2023.
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