1. Ignacy Potocki was an educational activist, member of the Commission of National Education and the initiator and president of Society for Elementary Textbooks.
16 Facts About Ignacy Potocki
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Ignacy Potocki's parents intended for him to join the ranks of clergy, but he refused to follow this path.
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Early on, Ignacy Potocki made a major impression on many of his contemporaries, being groomed as the next leader of Familia.
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Ignacy Potocki was involved in the development of numerous projects, such as the history curriculum.
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Ignacy Potocki participated in the Partition Sejm of 1773, where he sat on several commissions.
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In 1779 Ignacy Potocki joined the freemasonry, and by 1780 he advanced to the head of a freemasonry lodge.
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Ignacy Potocki became de facto head of the "Familia", and of anti-royal opposition.
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Ignacy Potocki continued to oppose various royal projects at the Sejms of 1784 and 1786.
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Ignacy Potocki participated in preparations for the Kosciuszko Uprising of 1794.
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Ignacy Potocki was involved in unsuccessful diplomatic negotiations with various foreign powers, in a vain attempt to gain support for the insurgents.
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Ignacy Potocki has lost most of his wealth following the Uprising, as most of his estates were confiscated.
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Ignacy Potocki wrote poems, but those were never published during his lifetime.
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Ignacy Potocki returned to politics shortly after much of Galicia was liberated by Napoleon and attached to the Duchy of Warsaw.
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Ignacy Potocki had no direct descendants, his only surviving daughter, Krystyna, was born on 1778 and died in 1800.
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Ignacy Potocki's reduced estates were inherited by a nephew, Aleksander Potocki.
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Ignacy Potocki is one of the figures immortalized in Jan Matejko's 1891 painting, Constitution of 3 May 1791.