Krzysztof Arciszewski, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Krzysztof Arciszewski

Polish-Lithuanian noble

Date of Birth: 09-Dec-1592

Place of Birth: Rogalin, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 07-Apr-1656

Profession: poet, engineer, military officer

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Krzysztof Arciszewski (9 December 1592 in Rogalin – 7 April 1656 near Gdansk (Danzig), Poland) was a Polish–Lithuanian nobleman, military officer, engineer, and ethnographer.
Arciszewski also served as a general of artillery for the Netherlands and Poland. As a young man he served under Krzysztof Radziwill.
After murdering Kacper Jaruzel Brzeznicki, he was condemned to infamy and exile, and left Poland in 1623.
He went to the Netherlands where he settled in the Hague.
Thanks to support of Krzysztof Radziwill he was able to study artillery, military engineering and navigation at Leiden University.
In 1637 he became a vice-governor of Dutch Brazil and head chief of Dutch military forces in that country. In 1646 he returned to Poland, where he became General of the Artillery.