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An earlier version of this book was published in Polish by Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, PoznaÅ, in 2016 as Atanazy RaczyÅski (1788â1874). Biografia.
Cover illustration: Karl Wilhelm Wach, Portrait of Athanasius RaczyÅski, 1826. RaczyÅski Foundation at the National Museum in PoznaÅ, inv. no. MNP FR 616.
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