Background
Römer was born in the Lithuanian city of Vilna, where he spent most of his life.
Römer was born in the Lithuanian city of Vilna, where he spent most of his life.
He owned manors in Kriaunos, Antanašė, Bagdoniškis, Daugirdiškiai, Granapolis, Dembinė. During the French invasion of Russia, he served as the mayor of Vilna from July to September 1812. Between 1817 and 1820 he served as a Marshal of the Szlachta for Vilna Governorate.
He also served as a head of the regional branch of the National Patriotic Society and the Towarzystwo Szubrawców literary society (along with Michał Baliński, Leon Borowski, Ignacy Chodźko, Antoni Gorecki, Kazimierz Kontrym, Józef Sękowski, Jędrzej Śniadecki and Tomasz Zan).
He was an early advocate for the abolition of serfdom and raised the question in public. Foreign this and his other activities, In 1826 he was imprisoned in Warsaw and Peter and Paul Fortress.
Later he was exiled to Voronezh. After the return in 1832, he retired from public life.