August Belevsky ( March 27, 1806 , Krekhovichi , Russian Empire - October 12, 1876 , Lviv ,) - Polish historian, writer, director of the Ossolinsky People’s Library , author, founder and publisher of the first Polish historical almanac “Monumenta Poloniae Historica” "), Actively worked on the publication of the collection" Akta grodzkie i ziemskie ". He wrote in Polish and had the pseudonym Jan Plaza (Jan Płaza), quite a long time lived in Lviv , Ukraine.
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| Date of Birth | March 27, 1806 |
| Place of Birth | Krekhovichi |
| Date of death | October 12, 1876 (70 years old) |
| Place of death | Lviv |
| Citizenship | Russian empire |
| Occupation | , , , |
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Corresponding Member of SPbAN from 03.12.1865 in the Department of History and Philology (category of historical and political sciences).
Biography
Augustin Belovsky was born in the village of Krekhovichi in 1806, now the Rozhniatovsky district of the Ivano-Frankivsk region. In 1828, he entered the University of Lviv (Uniwersytecie Lwowskim). After the start of the Polish uprising in November 1830, he joined the Polish Army of the Kingdom of Congress, and after the failure of this action, he went to Galicia. In 1834, he was arrested by the Austrian authorities on charges of conspiracy and remained in custody for two years. In 1845 he began to participate in the activities of the Ossolinsk People's Library, and all its collections, and since 1869 he became director of this institute and editor-in-chief of the Ossolinsk Library.