Polish émigré general who commanded the Posen rising of 1848 and then the revolutionary armies of Sicily and Baden
Born in 1814 at Nemours in France, the son of a Polish officer, he grew up in Congress Poland. He fought as a lieutenant in the November Uprising, emigrated to France and worked in émigré bodies such as the Polish Democratic Society. Chosen to lead the Greater Poland rising of 1846, he was arrested by the Prussian authorities and sentenced to death in December 1847, then amnestied by Frederick William IV in the Berlin revolution of March 1848. He commanded the Greater Poland Uprising of 1848, served as chief of staff of the Sicilian revolutionary army at Palermo from December 1848 to April 1849, and in 1849 commanded the insurgents of Baden and the Palatinate. After the defeat he returned to Paris. In 1863 he became the first dictator of the January Uprising but resigned after two defeats. He died in Paris in 1878.
Also known as: Ludwik Adam Mierosławski · Ludwik Mieroslawski
Activities and affiliations
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1848–1849
Military commandMain
- 1863
Career Timeline
- 1830–1831Lieutenant in the November Uprising
- 1846–1848Arrested preparing the Greater Poland rising, sentenced to death, amnestied
- 1848Commander of the Greater Poland Uprising
- 1848–1849Chief of staff of the Sicilian revolutionary army
- 1849Commander of the Baden and Palatinate insurgents
- 1863Dictator of the January Uprising
Related historical events
- 1848.01–1849.08The Italian Revolutions of 1848–1849 and the First War of IndependenceChief of staff of the Sicilian revolutionary armyAs chief of staff of the Sicilian army from December 1848 he faced Filangieri's Bourbon troops with some 6,000 men but lost Catania in April 1849.
- 1848–1849The Revolutions of 1848Commander in Posen, Sicily and BadenCommanded the Greater Poland Uprising of 1848, served as chief of staff in Sicily and led the Baden and Palatinate insurgents in 1849.