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'''Stanislovas Narutavičius''' {{audio|Stanislovas Narutavicius.ogg|pronunciation}}; 1862-1932) was a [[Lithuania]]n lawyer and politician, [[Signatories of the Act of Independence of Lithuania|one of the twenty signatories]] of the [[Act of Independence of Lithuania]] and brother to the first [[president of Poland]] [[Gabriel Narutowicz]]. He was also the only [[Lithuania]]n-[[Polish]] member of the [[Council of Lithuania|Taryba]], the provisional [[Lithuanian parliament]] formed in the late stages of [[World War I]]. |
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'''Stanislovas Narutavičius''' {{audio|Stanislovas Narutavicius.ogg|pronunciation}}([[Polish name]]: ''Stanisław Narutowicz'') (born [[September 2]], [[1862]], in [[Brevikai]], [[Telšiai County]], [[Lithuania]] - died [[December 31]], [[1932]], in [[Kaunas]], [[Lithuania]]) was a member of the [[Council of Lithuania]]. He was [[Signatories of the Act of Independence of Lithuania|one of the twenty signatories]] of the [[Act of Independence of Lithuania]], on [[February 16]], [[1918]]. |
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Narutavičius was born [[September 2]], [[1862]], in [[Brevikai]] near Telšiai (modern [[Telšiai County]], [[Lithuania]], then in the [[Russian Empire]]), to an old [[Nobility of Lithuania|Lithuanian]] noble family, with roots as far back as the time period of [[Vytautas the Great]] and tracing back to certain [[Narutis]], a [[Samogitia]]n noble and founder of the family. A self-declared [[Polish people|Pole]], he was nevertheless for most of his life loyal to the traditions of the [[Grand Duchy of Lithuania]]<ref name="Buchowski">{{pl icon}} {{cite journal | author =Krzysztof Buchowski | year =2001 | month = | title =Stanisław Narutowicz - szkic do portretu idealisty (Stanisław Narutowicz: a sketch for a portrait of an idealist) | journal =Biuletyn Historii Pogranicza | volume = | issue =2 | pages =41-51 | id = | publisher = [[Polish Historical Society (Polish)|Polskie Towarzystwo Historyczne]] | location = Białystok}}</ref>. His parents, [[Jan Narutowicz]] and [[Wiktoria Narutowicz|Wiktoria née Szczepkowska]] were landowners and ran a manor. |
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Narutavičius was born into an old Lithuanian noble family, with roots as far back as the time period of [[Vytautas the Great]]. He was an older brother of [[Gabriel Narutowicz]], the first [[President of Poland]]. The founder of the family was the [[Samogitian]] [[Lithuanian nobility|bajoras]] [[Narutis]]. |
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He graduated from the faculty of law of the [[Kiev University]]<ref name="Żeberek">{{pl icon}} {{cite book | author =Gerard Żeberek | coauthors = | title =Początki ruchu socjaldemokratycznego w Kijowie w latach 1889-1903 | year =1981 | editor = | pages =34, 160 | chapter = | chapterurl = | publisher =Wydawnictwo Literackie | location = | isbn= | url = | format = | accessdate = }}</ref>. During his studies in Kiev Narutavičius joined the Polish circle of students and with time became a member of the ''II Proletaryat'', an underground socialist-revolutionary party and the predecessor of the [[Polish Socialist Party]]<ref name="Żeberek"/>. However, his beliefs were much less radical than those of his colleagues, and with time Narutavičius contacts with far left weakened. |
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Early in his life Narutavičius married [[Joanna Billewicz|Joanna née Billewicz]], owner of the Brewiki manor and a cousin to [[Józef Piłsudski]]. After 1907 the couple created and maintained a [[gymnasium (school)|gymnasium]] for girls in Telšiai. It was the first school for girls in Russian-held Lithuania where teaching in Polish and Lithuanian was allowed. In the period preceding the [[World War I]] Narutavičius was also a journalist in various Polish language newspapers. He also was the publisher of the first issues of ''[[Tygodnik Powszechny]]'' weekly<ref name="Kelles-Krauz">{{pl icon}} {{cite book | author =Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz | coauthors =Wiesław Bieńkowski, Aleksandra Garlicka, Aleksander Kochański, Feliks Tych | title =Listy | year =1984 | editor = | pages =77 | chapter = | chapterurl = | publisher =[[Ossolineum]], [[Polish Academy of Sciences]] | location =Wrocław | isbn=8304020149 | url =http://books.google.com/books?id=jS8iAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Stanislaw+Narutowicz%22&dq=%22Stanislaw+Narutowicz%22&pgis=1 | format = | accessdate = }}</ref>. The couple were also engaged in several education societies spreading knowledge among the Lithuanian peasants of the area. In the period preceding the [[World War I]]Narutavičius was also a journalist in various Polish language newspapers. He also was the publisher of the first issues of ''[[Tygodnik Powszechny]]'' weekly<ref name="Kelles-Krauz">{{pl icon}} {{cite book | author =Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz | coauthors =Wiesław Bieńkowski, Aleksandra Garlicka, Aleksander Kochański, Feliks Tych | title =Listy | year =1984 | editor = | pages =77 | chapter = | chapterurl = | publisher =[[Ossolineum]], [[Polish Academy of Sciences]] | location =Wrocław | isbn=8304020149 | url =http://books.google.com/books?id=jS8iAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Stanislaw+Narutowicz%22&dq=%22Stanislaw+Narutowicz%22&pgis=1 | format = | accessdate = }}</ref>. |
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As a politician, Narutowicz was a mild socialist or a [[social-democrat]]<ref name="Żeberek"/>. He was a supporter of independence of Lithuania rather than of restoring a [[Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth]], mostly for fear of far more numerous Poland gaining the upper hand in such a union<ref name="Bardach">{{pl icon}} {{cite book | author =Juliusz Bardach | coauthors = | title =O dawnej i niedawnej Litwie | year =1988 | editor = | pages =268 | chapter = | chapterurl = | publisher =[[Adam Mickiewicz University]] | location =Poznań | isbn=8323201188 | url = | format = | accessdate = }}</ref>. On the other hand he supported a loose union between the states, which made him one of the leader of the so-called ''[[krajowcy]]'' movement, a group of Polish Lithuanians supporting reconciliation of divided loyalties of local Poles between Poland and Lithuania<ref name="Wandycz">{{en icon}} {{cite book | author =[[Piotr Wandycz]] | coauthors = | title =The Lands of Partitioned Poland, 1795-1918 | year =1974 | editor = | pages =349 | chapter = | chapterurl = | publisher =[[University of Washington Press]] | location = | isbn=0295953586 | url =http://books.google.com/books?id=TVMmGKsbWJ4C&pg=PA349&dq=%22Stanislaw+Narutowicz%22&sig=mr2wc0iyLHuR53pAY02NAHKKLwY#PPA349,M1 | format = | accessdate = }}</ref>. In his vision the [[Polish minority in Lithuania]] was to gain a status similar to the [[Walloons]] in Belgium: with separate culture and language, but united with Lithuanians by what he called "state patriotism"<ref name="Bardach"/>. At the same time he also supported close ties between the nations formerly constituting the [[Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth]] and took part in various Polish-Lithuanian-Belarusian enterprises. |
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In September of 1917 Narutavičius joined the Council of Lithuania (''Lietuvos Taryba''), a Lithuanian governing body established by the Germans as part of their ''[[Mitteleuropa]]'' plan, yet largely independent and striving for establishment of Lithuania as an independent state. As a member of that body, Narutavičius became [[Signatories of the Act of Independence of Lithuania|one of twenty signatories]] of the [[Act of Independence of Lithuania]]. However, following the conflicts within the Taryba he took a more anti-German stance than most of his colleagues. After the body asked ''the government of Germany for protection and help'' and vowed for ''stable and strong alliance with the German Reich'', Narutavičius protested. When, on January 26, 1918, 12 of the Taryba's members voted for compromise with Germany, and three of his social-democratic colleagues ([[Steponas Kairys]], [[Jonas Vileišis]] and [[Mykolas Biržiška]]) resigned their posts. |
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In the following years Stanislovas Narutavičius continued to actively support the increasingly difficult rapprochement between Poland and Lithuania, but to little avail. The futility of his actions, renounced on both sides of the border, as well as the increasingly hostile stance of the Lithuanian government towards the [[Polish minority in Lithuania]] and Narutavičius alienation led to his suicidal death on [[December 31]], [[1932]], in [[Kaunas]]<ref name="Buchowski"/>. |
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After Narutavičius' death his son [[Kazimierz Narutowicz]] (1904-1987) tried to mediate between the ministries of diplomacy of Poland and Lithuania for settlement of the conflict for the city of [[Vilna]]. Arrested by the [[USSR|Soviets]] during the [[World War II]] and forcibly resettled to Siberia, in 1947 he was released and settled in Poland. His widow continued to run various schools, notably the Polish gymnasium in Kaunas. After the outbreak of World War II she retreated to her manor in Brewiki, but was expelled from Lithuania by the Soviets and settled in Warsaw, where she died in 1948. |
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Revision as of 22:48, 28 August 2007
Stanislovas Narutavičius (Polish name: Stanisław Narutowicz) (born September 2, 1862, in Brevikai, Telšiai County, Lithuania - died December 31, 1932, in Kaunas, Lithuania) was a member of the Council of Lithuania. He was one of the twenty signatories of the Act of Independence of Lithuania, on February 16, 1918.
Narutavičius was born into an old Lithuanian noble family, with roots as far back as the time period of Vytautas the Great. He was an older brother of Gabriel Narutowicz, the first President of Poland. The founder of the family was the Samogitian bajoras Narutis.
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