Julian Klaczko (6 November 1825, Vilna (Wilno, Vilnius) – 26 November 1906, Kraków) was a Polish author.
Born Jehuda Lejb into a wealthy Jewish family, he studied in Vilna and Königsberg. In 1847, he took PhD title (doctorate work De rebus Franco-Gallicis saeculi XV). Then he moved to Heidelberg, and published in liberal Deutsche Zeitung.
After failure of the Poznań uprising (1848), he emigrated to France. In Paris he changed his name and convert...
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Julian Klaczko (6 November 1825, Vilna (Wilno, Vilnius) – 26 November 1906, Kraków) was a Polish author.
Born Jehuda Lejb into a wealthy Jewish family, he studied in Vilna and Königsberg. In 1847, he took PhD title (doctorate work De rebus Franco-Gallicis saeculi XV). Then he moved to Heidelberg, and published in liberal Deutsche Zeitung.
After failure of the Poznań uprising (1848), he emigrated to France. In Paris he changed his name and converted to Christianity (1856). He was a co-editor of Wiadomości Polskie, and published in Revue de Paris, Revue Contemporaine, and Revue des Deux Mondes (since 1862).
Klaczko was a politician who co-operated with liberal-aristocratic the Hotel Lambert faction of Polish exiles (leader – prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski). In 1870, he was elected Privy Cancillor at Foreign Affairs Ministry of Austria–Hungary. He was also a member of the Galician Parliament (1870-71).
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