Mikołaj Zyblikiewicz
| Mikołaj Zyblikiewicz | |
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| Mayor of Kraków | |
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In office July 2, 1874 – February 7, 1881 |
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| Preceded by | Józef Dietl |
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| Born | November 28, 1823 Stare Miasto near Sambor |
| Died | May 16, 1887 (aged 63) Kraków, Austrian partition |
| Alma mater | Jagiellonian University |
| Profession | Lawyer |
Mikołaj Zyblikiewicz (Polish: [mikɔwaj zɨblikiɛvit͡ʂ]; November 28, 1823 – May 16, 1887) was a Polish politician, lawyer of Ukrainian origin. Two-term Mayor of Kraków – in the then Austrian sector of the Partitioned Poland. A street in Kraków's Old Town is named in his memory, while his monument stands in front of the City Hall. Some of his achievements included the restoration of Sukiennice, the creation of a "national Panthéon" at Skałka, and the campaign towards the renovation of royal Wawel Castle, traditional seat of the Polish monarchs.
Mikołaj Zyblikiewicz was the son of Szymon Zyblikiewicz, a furrier of Ruthenian (Ukrainian) background in the town of Stare Miasto near Sambor (now Sambir, Ukraine). After graduating from high-school in Lviv, he enrolled at the Lviv University while working as a home tutor for local nobility. His political activism began during the Spring of Nations when he joined a series of patriotic Polish youth organizations, and with other young intellectuals (including Platon Kostecki and Jan Dobrzański), became involved with advocacy of Polish national and political rights in the province of Galicia. He moved to Tarnów where he worked at the high school. He relocated to Krakow soon after to continue his studies at the Faculty of Law in the Jagiellonian University with the aim of attaining a doctorate, and eventually securing a career as a politician.
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