Miencielowie (Mięcielowie) – dzieje chłopskiego rodu z Marklowic koło Cieszyna od XVIII do początku XX wieku
The Mienciel Family (the Mięciel Family) – the History of a Peasant Family from Marklowice near Cieszyn from the 18th to the Early 20th Century

Summary/Abstract: The article presents an outline of the history of the peasant family named Mienciel/Mięciel, primarily focusing on the line settled in 1720 in Marklowice near Cieszyn. Its most famous representative was Paweł (born in 1881), a teacher in Międzyświeć and Hrušov and a headmaster of the Evangelical Elementary School in Lviv (German: Evangelische Volksschule in Lemberg; Polish: Ewangelicka Szkoła Ludowa we Lwowie), who before 1920 was an activist of the pro-German Silesian People’s Party. The collected material can be used for research, among others, over the peasant family names and the course of the Counter-Reformation in Cieszyn Silesia (the Mienciel family converted from Protestantism to Catholicism, but after 1781 one of the family members, probably under the influence of the Lutheran mother, converted to Protestantism).

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