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Antoni Radziwiłł

1775–1833 · 19th century · Also known as Antoni Henryk Radziwiłł

Prince Antoni Radziwiłł was a Polish-Lithuanian aristocrat, composer and patron of the arts who married Princess Louise of Prussia. From 1815 to 1831 he served as the Prussian king's governor of the Grand Duchy of Posen, mediating between the Polish nobility and the Prussian state. A friend of Goethe and Chopin, he composed music for Goethe's Faust.

Antoni Radziwiłł
Image: Friedrich Oldermann / After Franz Krüger · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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Grand Duchy of Posen

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Antoni Radziwiłł. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/antoni-radziwill
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