Jan Tomasz Józefowicz (1662 - 1728) i jego antenaci
Jan Tomasz Józefowicz (1662 - 1728) and his ancetors

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to analyse the status and importance of the Armenian family of Józefowicz in the 17th century Lviv. The representatives of the family inhabited Lviv from the 40s of the 17th century, and actively participated in important events of the history of the city, vital for the future of the capital of the Ruthenian Voivodeship, or for the future of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Mikołaj Józefowicz was a popular chemist in Lviv, and he became even more popular during a siege of Lviv by Cossacks and Tatars in 1648. He helped with building the fortification of the city walls. Stanisław Józefowicz, a wealthy Armenian merchant, was helping Stefan Czarniecki, Field Hetman, with wars against the Cossacks for many years. Apart form supporting the Polish army, he was an arts patron. His son Jan Tomasz, a professor of philosophy at Kraków University and a later capitulary in Lviv was the most popular representative of the family of Józefowicz. Being connected with the cathedral chapter in Lviv for his whole life, he moved up in the hierarchy of the Lviv church, and in 1770, at the instructions of the contemporaneous suffragan bishop Jan Skarbek, he nominated the lower clergy and judged clerical arguments. Being a Lviv capitulary, he wrote Kronika miasta Lwowa (The chronicle of the city of Lviv), in which he described the history of the Archbishopric of Lviv and the city of Lviv in the 17th century. Moreover, Jan Tomasz Józefowicz was an author of several panegyrics in Latin, which were about important state events or about saints connected with the city of Lviv.

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