Antoni Popławski Explained

Antoni Popławski (1739–1799) was a Polish Piarist educator and economist.^[1] A physiocrat and a proponent of the emancipation of serfs, in 1774 he coined the term "noble democracy" to describe the political system of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.^[2] Popławski was born and died in Kraków.

Works

• O rozporzadzeniu i wydoskonaleniu edukacji obywatelskiej (1774) Available on Google Books.
• Moralna nauka dla szkól narodowych (1778)

Notes and References

1. "Popławski, Antoni", Enciclopedia Italiana di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti. Accessed 12 March 2016.
2. Benedict Wagner-Rundell, Common Wealth, Common Good (Oxford University Press, 2015), p. 73.