Karol Boromeusz Hoffman


Karol Aleksander Boromeusz Hoffman was a Polish political writer, historian, lawyer and publisher.

Biography

From 1828 he was a counselor, and from 1830 one of the directors of Bank Polski. In the years 1828–1830, together with Marceli Tarczewski, he published the legal magazine Themis Polska in Warsaw. In 1829 he married Klementyna Tańska. He participated in the November uprising, and after its fall he settled in Paris in 1832. In the exile, he belonged to Hôtel Lambert, the monarchist conservative-liberal party of Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski. From 1837 until 1839 he edited The Chronicle of Polish Emigration. After the death of Klementyna, he married Matylda Dunin-Wąsowicz. In 1848 he moved to Dresden, from where he wrote correspondence to Krakow's daily Time, and was a member of the Polish Emigration Committee. In 1869 Poznań Society of Friends of Learning awarded him with an honorary membership. From 1873, he was also a correspondent member of the Academy of Learning.

Works

He published works on the November Uprising and a collection of materials about the Great Emigration, especially valued by several historians: Polish Vademecum. In his historical works, he opposed democratic-republican contemporaries. He saw the specifics of the Polish historical process in the underdevelopment of cities and the weakness of royal power.
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