Agaton Giller

Agaton Giller

Agaton Giller (Opatówek, Congress Poland, Russian Empire, 1831 – 87, Stanisławów, Austro-Hungary), with his brother Stefan Giller, played notable roles in the Polish independence movement and the January Uprising of 1863.

Life

Agaton Giller was a historian, publicist and patriotic activist.

After being exiled to Siberia, he became the first Siberian historian and biographer of other deported Poles.

During the January 1863 Uprising he was a member of the National Government. Then, in exile in Paris, he was a journalist with such periodicals as "Ojczyzna" (The Fatherland) and "Kurier Paryski" (The Paris Courier), a founder of Polish self-assistance organizations, and a founder of the Polish National Museum in Rapperswil, in Switzerland's Canton of St. Gallen.

The National Polish Association in the United States considers Giller its "spiritual father."

He wrote many historical and biographical works, articles and studies.

He died in 1887 in Stanisławów. In 1980 his grave was repatriated from the closed Ivano-Frankivsk cemetery to Warsaw's Powązki Cemetery.

External links

* [http://www.muzeum-polskie.org/ Polish Museum] (Polish Museum Rapperswil)
* [http://www.biblioteka.opatowek.pl/003/gmin0003a.html Opatówek history - on The Giller Brothers' Communal Public Library in Opatówek page]


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