Leon Sapieha
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Portrait of Sapieha by Henryk Rodakowski, 1878
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| Coat of arms | Lis |
| Spouse(s) | Jadwiga Klementyna Zamoyska |
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| Noble family | Sapieha |
| Father | Aleksander Antoni Sapieha |
| Mother | Anna Zamoyska |
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18 September 1803 Warsaw, South Prussia, Kingdom of Prussia |
| Died | 1 September 1878 (aged 74) Krasiczyn, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary |
Leon Sapieha (1803–1878) was a Galician noble (szlachcic), politician and statesman.
Leon was born and educated in Warsaw, and studied law and economics in Paris and Edinburgh from 1820 to 1824. He began to work in the administration in the Polish (Congress) Kingdom. After the outbreak of the November Uprising in 1830, he left Russian Empire and took part in diplomatic missions of the Polish "National Government" in France and Great Britain. After that, he returned and participated in the Uprising in the rank of an Artillery Captain, among others in the defence of Warsaw on 6 and 7 September . He was awarded for that the Virtuti Militari Order. After the collapse of the Uprising he settled in Galicia, then part of the Austrian Empire. In 1835 Russian authorities confiscated his estates in Congress Poland as punishment for his participation in the failed Uprising. Leon Sapieha was one of the leaders of Ruthenian sobor.
He was a member of "National movement" circles and held contacts with the "Hotel Lambert". He became a member of the National Sejm (Diet of Galicia) in the Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia, member of the Austrian Council of the State and member of the imperial Herrenhaus in 1861. In 1863 he didn't participate in the January Uprising in Russian-occupied Poland, but contributed towards it financially. From 1861 until 1875 he served as Sejm Marshal. In 1875 he retired from political life.
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