Bronisław Szwarce, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Bronisław Szwarce

Polish engineer and political activist; translator of Russian literature

Date of Birth: 07-Oct-1834

Place of Birth: Inzinzac-Lochrist, Brittany, France

Date of Death: 18-Feb-1904

Profession: engineer, translator

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Bronislaw Antoni Szwarce (October 7, 1834 –February 18, 1904) was a Polish engineer and political activist.
Born in France to Polish immigrants and educated there.
He graduated from the Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures in Paris in 1855.
He returned to partitioned Poland and joined the radical democratic pro-independence underground.
He became part of the Central National Committee but was arrested by the Russian authorities shortly before the January 1863 Uprising and exiled to Siberia.(The CNC became a provisional Polish government and Szwarce, had he not been arrested, would likely have become one of the Uprising's leaders.) During his exile, Szwarce was one of the few people to meet Walerian Lukasinski, and became a mentor to future Polish leader Józef Pilsudski.