Andrzej Towiański

Andrzej Tomasz Towiański (Polish pronunciation::; January 1, 1799 – May 13, 1878) was a Lithuanian philosopher and messianic religious leader. His Lithuanian name is Andrius Taujanskas

Contents

• 1 Life
• 2 See also
• 3 Footnotes
• 4 External links

Life

Towiański

Towiański was born in Antoszwińce, a village near Vilnius, which after Par*ions of Poland belonged to the Russian Empire. He was the charismatic leader of the Towiańskiite sect, known also as Koło Sprawy Bożej (the Circle of God's Cause). In 1839 he experienced a vision in which the Holy Ghost and the Virgin Mary urged him to act as a messenger of the Apocalypse. The Poles, the French—particularly Napoleon—and Jews were to play leading roles. Among those influenced by his thinking were the Polish Romantic poets Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Słowacki, and Seweryn Goszczyński.

Graves of members of Koło Sprawy Bożej and their leader Andrzej Towiański

His extraordinary influence on Mickiewicz, a leader of the Polish emigre community, was divisive, and some members of the community accused him of being a Russian agent.

He died in Zurich.

See also

• History of philosophy in Poland (Messianism period)
• List of Poles

Footnotes

External links

• Works by Andrzej Towianski at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Andrzej Towiański at Internet Archive
• Dr Pavel Zahradník: Odkud přišli starší bratři?. Te Deum. 3/2009 (in Czech)