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Henryka Lewenhard

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Henryka Lewenhard

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participant in the January Uprising

First name:

Henryka

Last Name:

Lewenhard

Pseudonym:

„Michał Smok”

Parents:

Trofim Pawłowicz Pustowojtow i Marianna z Kossakowskich

Date of birth:

26-07-1838

Place of birth:

Wierzchowiska

Date of death:

02-05-1881

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January insurgent

participant in the January Uprising

Biography:

Henryka Lewenhard (1838-1881), born in Wierzchowiska, daughter of Trofim Pavlovich Pustowojtow and Marianna, née Kossakowska, participant in the January Rising. She considered herself Polish, although in Russian literature she was sometimes referred to as Russian. She owed her patriotic upbringing to her grandmother Brygida Kossakowska. She was educated at the School of the Visitation Nuns in Lublin, and then at the Alexandrian Institute for the Education of Ladies in Puławy. Already as a young woman she was involved in religious and patriotic activities, for which she was sentenced to prison in 1861. She escaped punishment and joined the Polish troops forming in Moldavia.

During the January Uprising, she was adjutant to General Marian Langiewicz. She fought in the battles of Małogoszcz, Pieskowa Skała, Chrobry and Grochowiska. After being arrested by the Austrians, she went into exile, where she was active as a nurse during the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune, for which she was awarded the Cross of Merit.

She eventually settled in Paris, where she married the doctor Stanislas Loewenhardt and raised four children.

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28.11.2024

Ostatnia aktualizacja:

28.11.2024

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