Józef Domański – rotmistrz kawalerii narodowej 1863 r., adwokat
Józef Domański: a National Cavalry Officer in 1863 and an Advocate

Summary/Abstract: This contribution is devoted to Józef Domański, an officer of insurgent cavalry (rittmaster) in 1863 and 1864. After graduating from the county school in Siedlce in 1861, he moved to the First Gymnasium in Nowolipki, Warsaw. Then, he went on to study in the capital at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Warsaw Main School. The January Uprising found him while he was there. As a volunteer cavalryman, he found himself in the unit commanded by Colonel Józef Jankowski „Szydłowski“. He operated over a wide area, moving with his cavalry from the outskirts of Warsaw to the voivodeships of Podlasie, Sandomierz and Lublin. He fought in thirty battles and skirmishes that were mostly victorious. Wanting to avoid repressions of 1864-1867 that followed the Uprising, he spent some time in exile in France. There, he undertook legal studies, which he continued in the Warsaw Main School in 1868. After graduation in 1869, he obtained his MA in law and administration. He was a public servant at the Government Justice Commission, worked as an assessor in the Correctional Court in Siedlce, then as a consistory attorney, and a sworn advocate in Warsaw. This city became his own until his death. It is worth looking slightly more critically at the fact that the dates of his death and burial have not been established in the research to date and the available literature on the subject.

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