"Ojcowie założyciele" nowoczesnych Wadowic cz. 2: Stanisław Łazarski (1849-1938)
"The Founding fathers" of the modern Wadowice (Part 2): Stanisław Łazarski (1849-1938

Summary/Abstract: Stanisław Łazarski was born on 29 November 1849, in Jeleśnia near Żywiec. After graduating from his school, he attended St Anna Middle School in Cracow. However, he didn`t finish the school. After the year 1863 he continued his education in Middle School in Tarnów where on 11 July 1868 he passed his matura exam. Then He studied in Lviv, Cracow, Vienna and Graz. In 1890 he got his PhD in history by Jagiellonian University. He most likely defended his dissertation in Law in Graz. When Stanisław graduated from university He ran the Law offices in Biała and Wadowice. He became famous owing to to his successful defence of Wanda Krahelska- Dobrodzicka in a criminal trial in Wadowice in 1908. The process made him famous in Galicja and beyond. Łazarski was also a politician at the district level in Biała, at the national level in Lviv and at the central level in Vienna. As the representative of the Polish parliamentarians He was remembered as the first member of Parliament who spoke in the Parliament in Vienna. In June 1917 He presented publicly the program of rebuilding of Poland. What is more He almost took up the post of the Minister of the District of Galicja in 1911. Stanisław Łazarski was also involved in the development of Wadowice in the nineteenth century. He proved it when He contributed in the process of establishment of the telephone network and installation of telephone equipment in Wadowice. It was one of the most important stages in the process of Europeanization of the town. In the next few years He supported the process of electrification in Wadowice. He also unsuccessfully tried to found a Trade school for the teenagers from the region. Łazarski spent the last days of his life in his property in Witkowice near Kęty. He died on 18 November 1938. He was buried in Biała which was for him as important as Wadowice.

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