Adam Broel-Plater

Adam Alfred Gustaw Count Broel-Plater (23 April 1836 – 24 December 1909) was a Polish-Lithuanian noble known as collector and archaeologist. He was also a marshal of nobility of the Vilna Governorate.

Biography Adam Alfred Plater was born into the noble Plater family. He inherited the Švėkšna estate from his parents. Later, thanks to his influence at court, despite being Polish, he obtained the right to acquire estates in the Northwestern Krai. He acquired the Vepriai estate with the town and manors of Kowalaki and Bataniszki in the Ukmergė County. Plater sponsored construction of both Roman Catholic and Evangelical Lutheran churches in Švėkšna. He also excavated 72 tumuli near Rokantiškės (suburb of Vilnius) and researched tumuli and hillforts in Kernavė. On 21 October 1878, he became president of the Vilnius Charity Society. He also served as chairman of the committee for the reconstruction of St. Anne's Church in Vilnius.

He died on 24 December 1909 in Švėkšna. He is buried in a crypt under the main altar of the Švėkšna church. He donated his numismatic collection to the Potocki family from Krzeszowice and his archaeological collection (about 450 items) to the Museum of the Society of Friends of Science in Wilno.

Family He was the son of Stefan Emeryk Plater and Alojza Alina Żaba-Marcinikiewicz. In 1872, in the Holy Cross Church in Warsaw, he married Genowefa Pusłowska, daughter of and Jadwiga Gołąbek-Jezierska. She had two sons with her: Marian Stefan Wandalin (1873–1951) and Jerzy Floryan Felicjan (1875–1943).