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Gurowski was born on September 10, 1805, in Russocice, Poland, the first son of Count Ladislas Gurowski, prominent in the Kosciuszko insurrection of 1794.
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Gurowski was born on September 10, 1805, in Russocice, Poland, the first son of Count Ladislas Gurowski, prominent in the Kosciuszko insurrection of 1794.
After expulsion from the Gymnasia of Warsaw and of Kalisz in 1818 and again in 1819 for patriotic tendencies, Gurowski studied philosophy under Hegel at the University of Berlin and subsequently attended the University of Heidelberg, where he matriculated on May 23, 1823.
Returning to his native Poland in 1825, Gurowski was imprisoned several times because of opposition to Russian influence. In 1831 he was sent to Paris as an agent of the republicans of Poland; when their revolutionary movement collapsed he was sentenced to death and his estates were confiscated. He remained in Paris for five years, studying under Charles Fourier and associating with the St. Simonians. In 1835 he published La Vérité sur la Russie, advocating Panslavism. Nicholas I of Russia was attracted by the scheme and immediately pardoned the author, requesting in 1836 his return to St. Petersburg, where Gurowski, having undergone a change of heart, introduced and promoted measures to Russianize Poland. In 1844 he fled to Germany and later, 1848-1849, taught political economy at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Believing that justice could not be expected in Europe, Gurowski immigrated to America, where, upon naturalization, he hoped to complete his "apprenticeship to freedom. " Soon after his arrival in New York late in 1849, he presented an unsuccessful series of lectures at Harvard on the history of Roman law, 1851; challenged a professor to a duel; poured forth denunciations of Daniel Webster; and wrote articles on European life for the Boston Museum. In New York he was employed on the editorial staff of Greeley's New York Tribune and concurrently wrote articles for the New American Cyclopaedia. He vigorously supported the Russian cause during the Crimean War; two pamphlets, The Turkish Question (1854) and A Year of the War (1855), coupled with his pro-Russian editorials in the Tribune, did much to create opinion favorable to Russia. Slavery also drew his attention. His denunciations of the system, beginning at Harvard, were climaxed by the publication in 1860 of Slavery in History, in which he declared slavery to be as fatal to society as "tropical swamps to human life. " The gathering clouds of the Civil War brought Gurowski to Washington. He told a group of the Northern members of the Peace Convention in February 1861 that they ought to be at home organizing and drilling regiments. On other occasions, while expressing a deep faith in the people of the North, he found their leaders incapable of meeting the emergency. Through the efforts of Sumner, Gurowski was appointed to "a confidential position near the Secretary of State. " His duty was to translate articles in foreign newspapers interesting to the government and to advise Seward on international affairs. Although openly expressing disgust at Seward's policy, he continued in the employment of the State Department until the appearance of the first volume of his Diary late in 1862. In its pages the administration was caustically criticized; officials in high positions were denounced without reservation. Gurowski's admitted purpose in publishing the Diary was to warn the public of the shortcomings and intrigues of government officials. In the second and third volumes, criticisms of Seward were particularly severe; Lincoln was challenged again and again to lead the nation instead of being pushed by the people; and the administration was charged with prolonging the conflict by a slow vacillating policy. Gurowski worked to promote the arming of Negro forces, petitioned the secretary of war for the colonelcy of a colored regiment, and suggested a book of tactics for the special use of colored troops. His criticisms fell heavily on Lincoln's leading generals; only Grant received his complete approval. Gurowski was a familiar sight in Washington political and social circles. Of marked conversational ability, given to violent flares of temper, he engaged in controversy whenever possible. Gurowski died on May 4, 1866 of typhoid fever at the home of Charles Eames, Washington, and was buried in the Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D. C.
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Gurowski was of medium height, with a large head and enormous abdomen. His eccentric appearance was enhanced by colored glasses (worn to protect an injured eye), a long flowing coat, and a broad-brimmed hat.
By his marriage to Theresa de Ibijewska in 1827 Gurowski had two children, a son and a daughter. Domestic happiness was ended by his wife's death in 1832.