Ignacy Daszyński

Ignacy Daszyński (born Oct. 26, 1866, Zbaraż, Galicia, [now Zbarazh, Ukraine]—died Oct. 31, 1936, Bystra, near Cieszyn, Poland) was a Polish socialist leader and patriot who was prominent in the restoration of the Polish Republic after World War I. In October 1892 Daszyński was one of the organizers of the Polish Social Democratic Party in Galicia. He was elected to the Austrian Reichsrat in 1897 and was a member of it until 1918. He was...