Antoni Radziwiłł
| Antoni Henryk Radziwiłł | |
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Lithograph after a sketch by Wilhelm Hensel, about 1810
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| Duke-Governor of the Grand Duchy of Posen | |
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In office 1815–1830 |
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| Preceded by | new creation |
| Succeeded by |
Eduard Heinrich von Flottwell (as Oberpräsident) |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
13 June 1775 Vilnius, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |
| Died | 7 April 1833 (aged 57) Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia |
| Resting place | Poznań Cathedral |
| Spouse(s) | Princess Louise of Prussia |
| Children | Wilhelm Paweł Radziwiłł Ferdynant Fryderyk Radziwiłł Bogusław Fryderyk Radziwiłł Władysław Radziwiłł Eliza Fryderyka Radziwiłł Wanda Augusta Wilhelmina Radziwiłł |
| Parents |
Michał Hieronim Radziwiłł Helena Przeździecka |
| Residence | Palais Radziwiłł, Berlin |
Prince Antoni Henryk Radziwiłł (Polish pronunciation: [radʑiˈviw]; 13 June 1775 – 7 April 1833) 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 (Polish: książę-namiestnik, German: Statthalter) of the Grand Duchy of Posen, an autonomous province of the Kingdom of Prussia created out of Greater Polish lands annexed in the Partitions of Poland.
Antoni Radziwiłł was born on 13 June 1775 in Vilnius to Michał Hieronim Radziwiłł and Helena née Przeździecka. From 1792 he attended Göttingen University and was invited to the court of King Frederick William II of Prussia. In 1796 he married Princess Louise of Prussia, the second daughter of Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia and hence a niece of the late Prussian king Frederick the Great. His new family convinced him that he should be a mediator between the Poles living under the Third Partition after the failed Kościuszko Uprising and the Prussian authorities in Berlin. Fluctuating between Berlin, Warsaw and Saint Petersburg, Radziwiłł developed the idea of making the province of South Prussia the nucleus of a renewed Polish kingdom, ruled by the Prussian king in personal union.
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