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Antoni Malczewski

Died in 1826

Antoni Malczewski (1793-1826), born in Warsaw or in Volhynia, the son of a general, studied at the lyceum of Krzemieniec, which he left in 1811 for the army of the Duchy of Warsaw, where he served in the engineers and artillery and defended Modlin in 1813. From 1816 to 1821 he travelled across Europe: in August 1818 he was the first Pole on the summit of Mont Blanc and made the first ascent of the Aiguille du Midi, and he met Byron. Back in Volhynia, he became attached to a married woman suffering from a nervous disorder, whom he tried to treat with magnetism, followed her to Warsaw and died there in poverty in 1826.

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