Gabriel Narutowicz
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1st President of the Republic of Poland |
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In office 11 December 1922 – 16 December 1922 |
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| Prime Minister | Julian Nowak, Władysław Sikorski |
| Preceded by | Józef Piłsudski (Chief of State) |
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Stanisław Wojciechowski Maciej Rataj (acting) |
| 8th Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland | |
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In office 28 June 1922 – 14 December 1922 |
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| President | Józef Piłsudski (Chief of State) |
| Prime Minister | Artur Śliwiński, Julian Nowak |
| Preceded by | Konstanty Skirmunt |
| Succeeded by | Aleksander Skrzyński |
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17 March 1865 Telsze, Vilna Governorate (now Lithuania) |
| Died | 16 December 1922 (aged 57) Warsaw, Poland |
| Political party | None (supported by the Polish People's Party "Wyzwolenie") |
| Spouse(s) | Eve Krzyżanowska |
| Children | 2 |
| Profession | Engineer |
Gabriel Narutowicz (Polish: [ˈɡabrjɛl naruˈtɔvit͡ʂ]; 17 March 1865 – 16 December 1922) was a Polish professor of hydroelectric engineering and politician who served as the 1st President of Poland (1922); previously he was a Polish Minister of Public Works (1920–21) and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1922). He was assassinated in 1922, in his first week of assuming office as president.
Gabriel Narutowicz was born into a Polish-Lithuanian noble family in Telsze (now Telšiai in capital of Samogitia, Lithuania), then part of the Russian Empire after the partitioning of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. His father, Jan Narutowicz, was a local district judge and landholder in the Samogitian village of Brėvikiai (Samogitian: Brievėkē). As a result of his participation in the January 1863 Uprising against Imperial Russia, he was sentenced to a year in prison; he died when Gabriel was only one year old.
Gabriel’s mother, Wiktoria Szczepkowska, was Jan's third wife. Following her husband's death she raised the sons herself. An educated woman, intrigued by the philosophy of the Age of Enlightenment, she had a great influence on the development of Gabriel and his siblings' world view. In 1873 she moved to Liepāja, Latvia, so that her children would not be forced to attend a Russian school (Russification in Latvia after the Uprising of 1863 was less enforced than in Lithuania and Poland, the center of the uprising).
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