Jaroslav Kacmarcyk | |
Birth Date: | 1885 |
Birth Place: | Binczarowa, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary |
Death Date: | 1944 |
Nationality: | Lemko |
Other Names: | Iaroslav Karchmarchyk, Jarosław Kaczmarczyk |
Known For: | President of the Lemko-Rusyn Republic |
President of the Lemko-Rusyn Republic | |
Parents: | Teofil Kacmarcyk |
Doctor Jaroslav Kacmarcyk or Jarosław Kaczmarczyk, also spelled Iaroslav Karchmarchyk (1885–1944) was the head of the Lemko-Rusyn Republic from 1918 to 1920. He was tried by the Polish government for anti-Polish agitation on June 6, 1921, and was acquitted.[1]
He was born in Binczarowa, in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria (present-day Poland).