Agaton Giller was a Polish historian, journalist and politician.
Career
After being exiled to Siberia by the Imperial Russian authorities, he became the first Siberian historian and biographer of other deported Poles. He wrote many historical and biographical works, articles and studies. He died in 1887 in StanisławóWest
In 1980 his grave was repatriated from the closed Ivano-Frankivsk cemetery to Warsaw"s Powązki Cemetery.
The Polish National Alliance, in the United States, considers Agaton Giller its "spiritual father.".
Politics
Later, in exile in Paris, he was a journalist with such periodicals as Ojczyzna (The Fatherland) and Kurier Paryski (The Paris Courier), a founder of Polish self-assistance organizations, and a founder of the Polish National Museum in Rapperswil, in Switzerland"s Canton of Saint Gallen.
Membership
He was a participant in the January Uprising and was one of the leaders of the "Red" faction among the insurrectionists as a member of the Central National Committee (Komitet Centralny Narodowy) and the Provisional National Government (Tymczasowy Rząd Narodowy).