Jan Henryk Dąbrowski

Jan Henryk Dąbrowski

Jan Henryk Dąbrowski (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjan ˈxɛnrɨɡ dɔmˈbrɔfskʲi]; also known as Johann Heinrich Dąbrowski (Dombrowski) in German and Jean Henri Dombrowski in French; 2 August 1755 – 6 June 1818) was a Polish general and statesman, widely respected after his death for his patriotic attitude, and described as a national hero who spent his whole life restoring the legacy of Poland.Dąbrowski initially served in the Saxon Army and joined the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Army in 1792, shortly before the Second Partition of Poland. He was promoted to the rank of general in the Kościuszko Uprising of 1794. After the final Third Partition of Poland, which ended the existence of Poland as an independent country, he became actively involved in promoting the cause of Polish independence abroad. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan Henryk Dąbrowski has received more than 253,117 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Jan Henryk Dąbrowski is the 244th most popular military personnel (up from 327th in 2019), the 114th most popular biography from Poland (up from 160th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Polish Military Personnel.

Jan Henryk Dąbrowski was a Polish psychiatrist who developed a theory of personality development that he called the Theory of Positive Disintegration. The theory is based on the idea that it is necessary for a person to go through a process of disintegration in order to create a new, more mature personality.