1st POLISH SCIENTIFIC SCIENCE CONGRESS FATHER STASZIC BLACK PRINT NEVER HINGED MINT (NO GUM AS ISSUED) IN CONJUNCTION WITH A BOOK TO COMMEMORATE THE 400TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE POLISH POST OFFICE. THE ITEM ON SALE IS THE BLACK PRINT ON ITS OWN AND NOT THE COMPLETE BOOK. THE BLACK PRINT WAS PRINTED BY PWPW (THE NATIONAL PRINTER'S OF POLISH BANKNOTES AND STAMPS) IN WARSAW.
Stanislaw Wawrzyniec Staszic (6 November 1755 – 20 January 1826) was a leading figure in the Polish Enlightenment — Catholic priest, philosopher, geologist, writer, poet, translator and statesman.
He is remembered for his political writings during the "Great (Four-Year) Sejm" (1788–92) and for his support of the Constitution of May 3, 1791, adopted by that Sejm.
A physiocrat, monist, pan-Slavist (after 1815) and laissez-fairist, he supported many reforms.
He co-founded the Warsaw Society of Friends of Learning (precursor to the Polish Academy of Sciences), of which he became president.
He served as a member of the State Council of the Duchy of Warsaw and as minister of trade and industry in Congress Poland.
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