Background
Korzon was born to Polish parents in Lithuania, and as a youth he studied law at Moscow University.
Korzon was born to Polish parents in Lithuania, and as a youth he studied law at Moscow University.
Moscow State University.
He took part in the January Uprising (1863-1865) of Poles against the Russian occupation (partitions of Poland) by organising pro-Polish patriotic demonstrations. After the defeat of the Uprising he was sentenced to death, later changed to exile to Orenburg until 1867. Afterwards from 1869 he lived in Warsaw, where he became of the teachers in the Flying University.
From 1897 he was the head librarian of the Biblioteka Zamojskich.
From 1903 member of the Polska Akademia Umiejętności.
