Founder of the Polish People's Party and ideologue of the Galician peasant movement
Born into a noble family in Polesia, he studied chemical engineering in St Petersburg and, as a socialist linked to Limanowski's Lud Polski, served three years in prison. Moving to Lwów in 1885, he published Przegląd Społeczny and Przyjaciel Ludu, which became the centre of the peasant movement in the Austrian partition. In 1895 he co-founded the People's Party (from 1903 the Polish People's Party); he split from it in 1912, then belonged to 'Piast' (1914–1923) and 'Wyzwolenie' (1923–1925). He was a senator from 1922 to 1927 and died in Lwów in 1937.
Also known as: Boleslaw Wyslouch
Activities and affiliations
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1895–1925
Political and party leadership
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1922–1927
Legislature and state representation
Career Timeline
- 1880–1883Arrested for socialist activity; imprisoned in the Warsaw Citadel and Modlin Fortress
- 1889.04–1902Publisher and editor of Przyjaciel Ludu
- 1895Co-founder of the People's Party
- 1912–1913President of the PSL Union of Independent People's Activists
- 1914–1923Member of the Supreme Council of PSL 'Piast'
- 1922–1927Senator of Poland