Aleksander Zawadzki (activist)



Aleksander Zawadzki, pseudonym Ojciec Prokop, (1859 – 23 November 1926) was a Polish political and educational activist, publicist.

Zawadzki was a member of the Liga Polska, Liga Narodowa (1893–1908), a Main Board of the Stronnictwo Narodowo-Demokratyczne (National-Democratic Party; 1905–1907), (1905–1908), Zjednoczenie Ludowe (1917–1918), founder of the Związek Nauczycieli Szkół Ludowych (1905), founder and President of the  National Peasants' Union (1912).

Biography
Zawadzki was born in 1859 in Wilno. While he was studying in Saint Petersburg, he was associated with the narodnicy movement. Then, Zawadzki became an activist in social groups, and because of that was arrested and exiled to Siberia (1878–1881, 1885–1892).

Together with group of activists, he founded Fronda Zawadzkiego (Fronde of Zawadzki), transformed in 1912 into the Narodowy Związek Chłopski.

He died on 23 November 1926.