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Antoni Henryk Radziwiłł – study for a portrait of the nobleman, the governor of the Grand Duchy of Posen Prince Antoni Henryk Radziwiłł was a representative of a prominent aristocratic family of the I Rzeczypospolita [the Polish–Lithuanian
3 mar 2024 · Antoni Radziwiłł was born on June 13, 1775 in Vilnius to Michał Hieronim Radziwiłł and Helena née Przeździecka. In 1796 he married Princess Louise of Prussia, the second daughter of Prince August Ferdinand of Prussia and hence a niece of king of Prussia Frederick the Great.
Prince Antoni Henryk Radziwiłł was a Polish and Prussian noble, aristocrat, musician, and politician. Initially a hereditary Duke of Nieśwież and Ołyka, as a scion of the Radziwiłł family he also held the honorific title of a Reichsfürst of the Holy Roman Empire. Between 1815 and 1831 he acted as Duke-Governor of the Grand Duchy of Posen, an autonomous province of the Kingdom of ...
Fryderyk Chopin in the salon of prince Antoni Radziwiłł (1888) by Rudolf SchusterThe Fryderyk Chopin Institute Prince the cellist It is therefore not surprising that nineteen-year-old Fryderyk was invited by Prince Antoni Radziwiłł, the Prussian governor of the Grand Duchy of Poznań, who was also an avid music lover.
Prince John Stanisław. Prince Anthony. Princess Anna Krystyna. Father. Prince Janusz Franciszek, Prince Radziwiłł. Mother. Princess Anna Lubomirska. Prince Stanisław Albrecht " Stash " Radziwiłł (21 July 1914 – 27 July 1976) was a Polish prince, then British citizen, socialite and businessman. He served as director of the Olympic Airways .
Antoni Henryk Radziwiłł returned to his palace in Berlin, where he died on April 7, 1833. He was buried in the Poznań Cathedral. His children with Louise were Germanised and never returned to Poznań, however, as owners of the manor Nieborów near Warsaw and huge family estates in today's Belarus they paid frequent visits to other parts of Poland.
I published a broader biographical note in: J. Durka, Antoni Henryk Radziwiłł (1775-1833) – szkic do portretu arystokraty, namiestnika Wielkiego Księstwa Poznańskiego, [in:] Górny Śląsk i Wielkopolska w XIX i pierwszej połowie XX wieku. Wybrane aspekty z dziejów polityki i edukacji, ed. J. Durka, Poznań 2012, pp. 11-30.
