Konstanty Parczewski
1801–1855 (age 54)
Biography
Konstanty Parczewski was a Polish rebel born in 1801 who dedicated his life to the cause of Polish independence and liberty. He lived during a period when Poland struggled under foreign domination, and he participated in the various uprisings and resistance movements that characterized the nineteenth-century struggle for Polish freedom.
His commitment to his nation's independence cost him his life, and he died in 1855 at the age of fifty-four. He was buried in Auxerre, France, a final resting place that reflects the international nature of the nineteenth-century struggle for national liberation and democratic ideals.