Fryderik Florjan [ Count ]. O ubostwie i ubogich.

by SKARBEK

£750 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

SKARBEK, Fryderik Florjan [ Count ]. O ubostwie i ubogich. Warsaw: Galezowski. 1827. 8vo. Original plain wrapper; pp. [4], iii, 150, [2, blank]; apart from light toning, and the final blank partly stuck to rear wrapper, a near-fine copy in its original state. Rare first edition of an early Skarbek title on political economy, based on the Polish experience, his On Misery and the Poor , dedicated to Zofia Zamoyska (1780-1837), member of the Polish high nobility, hailed at the Congress of Vienna as the most outstanding beauty. "The conception of the moral unification and solidarity of all social states was … developed and popularized on a European scale by Fryderyk Skarbek, writer, activist, and educator, who today is too little remembered. In his book On the Misery and the Poor ( O ubóstwie I ubogich ), edited in 1827, speaking about duties of the privileged he applied a theory of social models which he later developed in his essay in French entitled Essai de Morale Civique (1860), touching upon the so-called active people " (Zygmunt Komorowski, Universal Values in Polish Culture , online). Skarbek was befriended by and godfather to the composer Frédéric Chopin (1810–49), who had been born on the Skarbek estate in Żelazowa Wola. As well as stage plays, Skarbek wrote on social issues, fiction, satires, worked on prison reform in Britain, Holland and Russia, and is responsible for the design of the infamous Pawiak prison in Warsaw. Count Fryderyk Skarbek (1792-1866) studied in Wa

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