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Franciszek Witold Milewski (born 4 October 1817 in Poznań, died 19 April 1889 in Poznań) - Polish pedagogue, social and educational activist. He made an important impact on the educational politics of the government of the Prussian partition of Poland. During the Kulturkampf he had to resign from the educational activity and devoted himself to social actvism.

Youth
Franciszek Witold Milewski was a son of Dominik Milewski, a court counsellor (radca sądu), and Maria de domo Kolanowska. He was educated in Poznań, in 1837 he passed his matura exam in the Gimnazjum św. Marii Magdaleny (Gymnasium of Saint Mary Magdalene) in Poznań, one of the best schools of Greater Poland. He has studied mathematics, physics and natural sciences in Berlin, one of his main teachers was Martin Ohm. Then he earned a Ph.D. in mathematics, for which he wrote a dissertation De ramis infinitis curvararum algebricum ordinis IV (Berolini 1842). In Berlin, he was a member of Towarzystwo Akademików Polskich (the Society of Polish Academics). He met there his first wife.

Personal life
Milewski get married for the first time during his studies in Berlin, but his wife died young during their stay in Leszno. He remarried in 1846 with Józefa Sarnowska (died 1895). They had sons Franciszek, Stanisław, Ludwik, Bronisław and Józef and a daughter Paulina. Franciszek and Stanisław were administrators of Władysław Zamoyski's folwarks near Kórnik. Ludwik was a teacher, since 1874 in Berlin. Bronisław was an engineer. Józef Milewski (1859-1916) was a politician, economist and statistician, author of many works on the insurance statistics. Paulina get married to the landowner Obrąpalski.