Doctor of Laws, and coiner of the term ‘genocide’, he was born in the village of Bezwodne in the Grodno Province into a Jewish family.
King of Poland as Stanislaus I in 1704-09 and 1733-36, father of Maria Leszczyńska, Queen of France.
Political and social activist, publicist, philosopher, one of the leading representatives of 19th-century Polish Messianism and Liberalism.