Prince 'Władysław (Ladislaus) Czartoryski' (
1828-
1894) was a
Polish noble (
szlachcic), political activist in exile, collector of art and founder of the
Czartoryski Museum in
Kraków.
Son of Prince
Adam Jerzy Czartoryski and Princess
Anna Zofia Sapieha, he married
Maria Amparo, Countess of Vista Alegre, daughter of Queen
Maria Christina of Spain by
morganatic relation to the
Augustín Fernández Muñoz, Duke of Riansares, on
March 1,
1855 in
Malmaison near
Paris.
Their son
August Czartoryski contracted
tuberculosis at the age of 6, from his mother who died soon thereafter. August (known as "Gucio") had as a tutor Joseph (later
Saint Raphael) Kalinowski. Władysław hoped that his son would pursue a diplomatic career, but Gucio went against his father's wishes and joined the religious order of the
Salesians. Gucio was ordained a priest in 1893, but neither his father nor anyone else in the family attended the ceremony, and he died a year later of tuberculosis at the age of 34. Gucio was
beatified in 2004, on track to becoming a
saint himself.
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Władysław Czartoryski dressed in a traditional
Arab costume, during one of his numerous trips to the
Middle East.
On
January 15,
1872 Prince Władysław married his second wife, Princess
Marguerite Adelaide d'Orleans, daughter of the
Duke of Nemours and granddaughter of King
Louis-Philippe of France, with whom he had two more sons in 1872 and 1876.
Prince Władysław was an activist of
Hotel Lambert. From
1863-
1864 he was the main diplomatic agent of the revolutionary National Government (Rząd Narodowy) with the
English,
Italian,
Swedish and
Turkish governments.
He was also owner of the great family collection of art: paintings, sculptures and antiquities. He was greatly interested in Egyptian art, making his purchases at sales in Paris and directly in
Egypt. He donated some objects to the Polish Library in
Paris and also other archeological artifacts to the
Jagellonian University. In
1871, he donated objects to the Polish Museum in
Rapperswil,
Switzerland.
In
1865 he organized an exhibition of the "Czartoryski Collection" in the "Polish Room" of the Exposition des Arts Decoratifs in Paris.
In
1878 he re-opened the
Czartoryski Museum in
Kraków, which was founded by his grandmother
Izabela Czartoryska in
1801 in
Puławy but closed after the
November Uprising. He died in Boulogne-sur-Seine and was buried in the
Sieniawa Family crypt.
External link
★ http://www.muzeum-czartoryskich.krakow.pl/
In Vienna, the capital city of Austria, is a street named by Władysław Czartoryski.