Samuel Hieronim Kociełł’s Careeras a Contribution to the Study of Promotion Mechanisms of Lithuanian Treasury Officials in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century Cover Image

Kariera Samuela Hieronima Kociełła jako przyczynek do badania mechanizmów awansu urzędników skarbu litewskiego w drugiej połowie XVII wieku
Samuel Hieronim Kociełł’s Careeras a Contribution to the Study of Promotion Mechanisms of Lithuanian Treasury Officials in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century

Author(s): Konrad Bobiatyński
Subject(s): Political history, 17th Century, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: treasury officials; treasury office; political career; social advancement; patron-client ties;

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the career mechanisms of the Lithuanian treasury scribe Samuel Hieronim Kociełł (d. 1685). He amassed a considerable fortune by providing financial services to the most important Lithuanian magnate families (mainly the Radziwiłłs and the Sapiehas). He was also successful in political activity, in which he joined the Pacs’ party, becoming its leading activist at the sejmik of Oszmiany. The legacy he left behind laid a solid foundation for the socioeconomic advancement of his family.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 8
  • Page Range: 185-204
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Polish