Count Walerian Skorobohaty Krasiński or Valerian Krasinski (1795–1855) was a Polish Calvinist politician, nationalist and historian.

Krasinski was a Polish aristocrat in exile after the November Uprising

November Uprising

The November Uprising , Polish–Russian War 1830–31 also known as the Cadet Revolution, was an armed rebellion in the heartland of partitioned Poland against the Russian Empire. The uprising began on 29 November 1830 in Warsaw when the young Polish officers from the local Army of the Congress...

 1830, during the Austrian, German and Russian partition of Poland. In 1844 he was proposed for a chair in Slavonic Studies at Oxford University. In 1848 he presented appeals to the Habsburg government. In Russia and Europe, or, The probable consequences of the present war he wrote on the Crimean War

Crimean War

The Crimean War was a conflict fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the French Empire, the British Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Sardinia. The war was part of a long-running contest between the major European powers for influence over territories of the declining...

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Krasinski's Historical sketch of the rise, progress, and decline of the Reformation in Poland (1838) still one of main texts on the subject available in English, was written in English. One of Krasinski's main sources is Slavonia reformata (1679) by Andreas Vengerscius

Andrzej Węgierski

Andrzej Węgierski was a Polish Calvinist historian.His main work was the Slavonia reformata, continentes historiam ecclesiasticam Andrzej Węgierski (1600–1649) was a Polish Calvinist historian.His main work was the Slavonia reformata, continentes historiam ecclesiasticam Andrzej Węgierski...

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He died in Edinburgh

Edinburgh

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 and is buried in the old Warriston cemetery close to another Polish exile, the violinist and composer Feliks Janiewicz

Feliks Janiewicz

Feliks Janiewicz, in English often Felix Yaniewicz was a Polish composer and violinist in exile and one of the founders of the Edinburgh Festival.He was born in Vilnius, Lithuania, 1762...

, one of the co-organisers of the first Edinburgh Festival

Edinburgh Festival

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Works

• The present government of Russia: the Emperor Nicholas, article 1841
• Russia and Europe, or, The probable consequences of the present war
• Historical sketch of the rise, progress, and decline of the Reformation in Poland 1838
• Monachologia, Or, Handbook Of The Natural History Of Monks: Arranged According To The Linnean System Ignaz Edler Von Born and Walerian Krasinski.
• Treatise on Relics translated.
• Panslavism and Germanism 1848
• Lectures on the religious history of the Slavonic nations Edinburgh, 1851
• Montenegro and the Slavonians in Turkey 1853
• The Polish Question and panslavism 1855
• Poland, its history, constitution, literature etc. 1855