Ksiądz August Nahlik (1812-1878). Proboszcz strzyżowski z konspiracyjną przeszłością
Rev. August Nahlik (1812–1878). Strzyzow parish priest and an underground activist

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the life of reverend August Nahlik (1812–1878) during his service as a parish priest of St. Catherine’s parish in Rumno. There, he got involved in the independence movement, and then became one of the leading figures of the so-called conspiracy in Horozhanna, whose main goal was to spark a local uprising against the partitioners in Eastern Galicia. Together with other upheavals of this type throughout the entire Galicia, the conspiracy in Horozhanna was to become an important part of the nationwide independence spur being prepared by the Polish Democratic Society since the 1840s. Unfortunately, in 1846 the conspiracy was discovered and bloodily suppressed by the peasants, and the incidents in Horozhanna are associated with other revolts taking place at the time, described in historiography as the Galician Slaughter. Rev. August Nahlik, along with other conspirators who managed to escape the peasants’ attack, was sentenced to 15 years in one of the toughest prisons of the Austrian Empire - the Spielberg fortress. However, thanks to the amnesty announced in 1848, he regained his freedom and, after a year of suspension, was first appointed a parish priest of St. Lawrence’s parish in Chyrow, and then in 1864 he was transferred to the western part of the Przemysl diocese, to the parish of Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Corpus Christi in Strzyzow. There, he significantly contributed to the revival of the religious life of the parish, as well as to the restoration of the former glory of the temple, devastated in the Josephine times. He managed the parish in Strzyzow until his death in 1878. The content of the article is additionally enriched by the edition of the last will of Rev. August Nahlik from 1878, which has been preserved in Feliks Misky’s notarial deeds, and a previously unpublished photograph of the priest from the collection of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

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