How to Pronounce Fryderyk Józef Moszyński
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Mar 14, 1738 Dresden, Saxony, Germany Died on 21 Jan 1817 (aged 78)
Polish noble and general
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About Fryderyk Józef Moszyński
- Fryderyk Józef Jan Kanty Moszynski (1738 in Dresden – 21 January 1817 in Kiev) of Nalecz coat of arms was a noble (szlachcic) in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
- He held the offices of Referendary of Lithuania, Great Secretary of Lithuania and Great Marshal of the Crown. Fryderyk Józef Moszynski was a son of Jan Kanty Moszynski, Grand Treasurer of the Crown (podskarbi wielki koronny), and Fryderyka Augusta, an illegitimate daughter of Augustus II the Strong, king of Poland, and his mistress Countess of Cosel.
- He was posthumus (his father died on 15 September 1737).
- He had an older brother, August Fryderyk Moszynski.Fryderyk Józef Moszynski was born in Dresden.
- He was baptised on 14 March 1738.
- Fryderyk Józef Moszynski spent his childhood in Dresden under the tutelage of Heinrich von Brühl.
- He was well educated.
- Moszynski knew a few languages.
- He was also interested in maths.
- In 1766–68 he was the member of Crown Treasury Commission, and from 1768 a vice-commander of the Cadet Corps, a function he performed well, even donating some of his funds to the Szkola Rycerska.
- However, in 1792 he joined the Targowica Confederation, whose actions resulted in the fall of the Constitution of 3 May and the Second Partition of Poland.
- In 1793 he was a member of commission investigating a banking crisis in the Commonwealth, and the member of the Permanent Council in charge of police.
- In the aftermath of the Warsaw Uprising during the Kosciuszko Uprising, he was imprisoned by the Polish revolutionaries.
- On 28 June 1794 an angry mob stormed the prison with the intention of hanging many of the people considered traitors; Moszynski was saved by the intervention of Ignacy Wyssogota Zakrzewski, although many others – like bishop Ignacy Jakub Massalski or prince Antoni Stanislaw Czetwertynski-Swiatopelk – were hanged that day.
