Resolution of the Polish Parliament of 18 January 2024 on celebrating the 170th anniversary of the birth of Jan Ludwik Popławski
Jan Ludwik Popławski was born on 17 January 1854 in Bystrzejowice, Lublin. He devoted his life to independence, he was the creator of the modern Polish national movement. From an early age, it grew in a patriotic atmosphere. He was relegated by Russian invaders from Lublin mediate School. He undertook law studies at the University of Warsaw, during which he conspired against the invaders in a patriotic environment, for which he was imprisoned in the Citadel of Warsaw.
He was then sentenced to 8 years of exile to Siberia. Jan Ludwik Popławski returned to Warsaw in 1882. He undertook journalistic cooperation with liberal and progressive environments and with pioneers of the Polish folk movement. In the press, Popławski expressed his sincere, deep democratism and belief in the force behind the Polish people. A year later, Popławski was re-established in the citadel, this time for cooperation with socialist circles. After his release from prison, he founded the weekly weekly “Voice”, which became an crucial organ of Polish intelligence surviving behind[1]the Russian partition. Popławski presented the thought of national and national people, which stressed the request for modernity and progress, while besides stigmatizing the exploitation of Polish workers and the bad situation of Polish peasants.
In 1887, Jan Ludwik Popławski joined the secret Polish League, which was a three-seat independency organization combining circles of veterans of the January uprising, independency of socialists, patriots and first nationalists. Popławski became a league commissioner for the Russian partition, worked closely with the secret patriotic Union of Polish Youth “Zet”, headed by the prominent Polish sociologist Zygmunt Balicki and future statesman Roman Dmowski. The Polish League under the direction of Popławski organized many patriotic manifestations in Warsaw, including 2 most crucial ones: for the century of the Constitution on 3 May and for the century of the Warsaw Insurrection, which sparked the desire for independency among Poles. For organising these demonstrations, Popławski was imprisoned in the citadel for the 3rd time, becoming 1 of the most frequently imprisoned Poles there.
Jan Ludwik Popławski participated in the transformation of the Polish League into the National League, which was a secret organization coordinating the independency of Poles to the restoration of Polish statehood in 1918. Jan Ludwik Popławski was the author of the Democratic-National organization program, a organization related to the National League, which was the first political organization of the National Democracy Camp. This camp considered the main nonsubjective of regaining independency by Poland, and the means to accomplish this goal were to build a modern, egalitarian, democratic Polish nation understood as a cultural, historical and political community.
Popławski was a co-founder of the national-democratic program of omnipolis and omnistate, highlighting the unity of Polish interests across borders of occupations and social states. His contribution to the Polish patriotic thought was besides the concept of Poland's return to the Oder and Baltic. As a writer and political writer, he was an highly prolific author whose output is estimated at 40 volumes per 300 pages each. He specialized in articles on political, social, literary and technological topics, which for years have been published in crucial writings, specified as “Truth”, “Voice”, “Review of All Poland” or “Poland”.
Jan Ludwik Popławski died prematurely, at the age of 54, on 12 March 1908 in Warsaw. The Sejm of the Republic of Poland wishes to celebrate the memory of Jan Ludwik Popławski on the 170th anniversary of his birth.
Marshal of the Sejm: S. Holovnia
Polish Monitor of February 2, 2024
