Death sentence on TEOFIL WIŚNIOWSKI [November insurgent, organizer of coal mining unions in Galicia], 1847

DEATH JUDGMENT issued in the Lemberg Criminal Court on Teofil Wiśniowski, also appearing under the names Carl Duval, Winnicki, Dąbrowski, Zagórski and Benedykt Lewiński for the crime of State (....) / Todesurtheil, welches von dem Lemberger Criminal-Gerichte THEOPHIL WIŚNIOWSKI, falslich Carl Duval, Winnicki, Dąbrowski, Zagórski und Benedict Lewiński gennant, hoheren Instanzen bestatigten Spruchen am heutigen Tage , v.i. den 31 Juli 1847 mit dem Zwange vollzogen worden ist (...), f. 21 x 33,5cm, p. 12, all in German, RARE

traces of folding, minor soiling, otherwise good condition

WIŚNIOWSKI Teofil [1805-1847] participant in the November Uprising, organizer of coal associations in Galicia. On July 31, 1847 Teofil Wisniowski was hanged together with Jozef Kapuscinski [1818-1847] on Execution Hill (Hyclovska) in Lviv. From that time until the end of Austrian rule, the Mount of Execution became a place of manifest worship for the two insurgent leaders. In 1894, Lviv society founded and erected a commemorative obelisk there, which has survived to the present day. (Source: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teofil_Wiśniowski_(insurgent))