Background
Wysłouch was born in the Polesia region of Poland.
Wysłouch was born in the Polesia region of Poland.
He completed his education with a degree in chemical engineering at the Emperor"s St. Petersburg Institute of Technology in Saint St. Petersburg.
From 1881 he was affiliated with Lud Polski, a left-wing newspaper run by Bolesław Limanowski (as a result of which he was imprisoned in the Warsaw Citadel for three years). He then created Przyjaciel Ludu (People"s Friend), a new left-wing newspaper which became popular with activists for peasant rights and which became the centre of the popular movement in the Austrian partition. In 1894 Wysłouch created the Polish Democratic Society, and a year later he co-founded the People"s Party (which since 1903 has been known as the Polish People"s Party) in Galicia.
The following year he moved to the Polish People"s Party "Piast", where he stayed until 1923, after which he moved to the Polish People"s Party "Wyzwolenie" with which he was involved until 1925.
During the years 1922-1927 he served as a senator of the Second Polish Republic. He died in Lviv and is buried at the Lychakiv Cemetery.
He became active in politics as a student, mainly through university societies. He became a member of the party"s Head Council, but in 1912 he left in order to establish a new entity called "Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe (Polish Peasant Party) Union of the independent popular activists".
From then he was a member of the Labour Club until his political retirement in 1927.