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Jun 27, 1848 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland Died on 16 Apr 1892 (aged 43)
Polish engineer, industrialist and composer of Jewish origin
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About Wadysaw Edward Kronenberg
- Wladyslaw Edward Kronenberg (June 27, 1848 in Warsaw – April 16, 1892 in Cannes), Polish engineer, industrialist and composer of Jewish origin. Wladyslaw Edward Kronenberg was born as the son of a banker Leopold Stanislaw Kronenberg (1812-1878) and Ernestine Rosalie Leo (1827-1893), daughter of Leopold August Leo.
- He had five siblings: Stanislaw Leopold, Leopold Julian, Tekla Julia, Marie Róze, and Róze Marie Karoline.
- His parents were both from families of Jewish origin, but were baptized in the Evangelical Reformed church, and brought up their children as such, including Wladyslaw. He graduated from the Ecole Centrale in Paris.
- After returning to Poland, he became a member of the Warsaw-Tiraspol and Vistula railroads.
- He was the founder and publisher of the Warsaw Technical Review . In 1883 in a village near Czestochowa he began the construction of a textile factory, which was soon after sold to the Austrian company Hielle and Ditrich, due to lack of profitability of the project.
- Finally, the factory under the name "Bleszno" was launched in 1885 and before the First World War was one of the biggest factories in the Kingdom of Poland. After the failure in the construction of factories near Czestochowa, he abandoned industrial activity and settled in Paris, where he became a composer.
- He worked mostly on patriotic songs.
- In 1881, he founded the Warsaw Music Society and was its president until 1885. He was married to Malgorzata Lucja Chevreau (b.
- 1859), with whom he had a daughter Marie Wladyslawe (1882-1914), the wife of Józef Rajmund Anny Maria, Count de Maistre. He died at Cannes and was buried in the cemetery of the Evangelical Reformed in Warsaw.
- The Warsaw Charity Society was left 250,000 rubles in his will.
