Karol Lanckoroński

Karol Lanckronski
Born4 November 1848
Vienna, Austria
Died15 July 1933 (aged 84)
Vienna, Austria
Occupations
  • Writer
  • art collector
  • patron
  • historian
  • book and manuscript collector
  • traveller
  • land owner
  • vice president for the Society of Cultural Protection
FamilyCountess Karolina Lanckoronska

Count Karol Lanckoroński (German: Karl Lanckoronski) (born 4 November 1848 in Vienna; died 15 July 1933 in Vienna) was a Polish writer, art collector, patron, historian, traveler, and vice-president of the Society for Cultural Protection in his native Galicia. He was one of the wealthiest and most cultivated magnates in Austrian partition of Poland and in the whole of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was a member of the Polish Academy of Learning.

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