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
edit- O rozporzadzeniu i wydoskonaleniu edukacji obywatelskiej (1774) Available on Google Books.
- Moralna nauka dla szkól narodowych (1778)
References
edit- ^ "Popławski, Antoni", Enciclopedia Italiana di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti. Accessed 12 March 2016.
- ^ Benedict Wagner-Rundell, Common Wealth, Common Good (Oxford University Press, 2015), p. 73.