Education
In 1815 he graduated from the Wilno-based gimnazjum wileńskie and started legal studies at the local university.
In 1815 he graduated from the Wilno-based gimnazjum wileńskie and started legal studies at the local university.
Arrested in 1823 for membership in aforementioned societies, the following year he was sentenced to forced resettlement to Russia by tsarist authorities. In 1829 he was allowed to settle in Saint St. Petersburg, where he started working at the Lithuanian Metrica Office. Around that time he also founded the Tygodnik Petersburski (St. Petersburg weekly), the first Polish-language newspaper to be published in that city.
He died on 10 April 1870.