JAN HUPKA –AKTYWNOŚĆ SPOŁECZNO-POLITYCZNA NA TERENIE GALICJI DO 1914 ROKU

Abstract

The article presents the figure of Jan Hupka, a conservative landowner, who played a significant role in the Polish political and social life in autonomous Galicia as a local government activist, publicist, and conservative politician. He was founder of the Conservative Club, a member of the National Right Party, and member of the Diet of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria in Lviv). He was one of the founders of the Polish Emigration Society in Lviv. Loyal to Vienna, he remained an ardent supporter of the Austro-Polish solution, which he pursued consistently even after the outbreak of the Great War. After 1914, he drew on his long political experience as he became involved in the activist camp

Keywords

• jan hupka
• galicia
• habsburg monarchy
• diet of the kingdom of galicia and lodomeria
• polish emigration society
• conservatism