Edward Pawłowicz

Edward Pawłowicz (; 30 March 1837 – 1895) was a Polish-Lithuanian teacher and director of the Private Real School in Kalisz, as well as a prominent educational activist.

Biography He was born in 1837 at the Lapgiriai Manor, in the Lithuanian region of Samogitia, to the Samogitian noble Paulavičiai/Pawłowicz family of the Przyjaciel coat of arms. He was the son of Józef Bernard Pawłowicz, an estate administrator, and Maria née Dokalski. In 1856, he graduated from the gymnasium in Šiauliai and began studying medicine at the University of Moscow, before transferring to the Imperial University of Dorpat, where he pursued studies in mathematics and natural sciences. He was part of a group of intellectuals in Kalisz who regularly met at the Berlin Hotel on Mariańska Street and made efforts to animate the cultural life of the city. Pawłowicz was a member of the Charity Society, the Music Society in Kalisz, and the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw.

Edward Pawłowicz died in 1895.

Edward Pawłowicz's grandchildren included, among others, the Polish writer and traveler Bohdan Pawłowicz (son of Kazimierz), Polish economist and World War II veteran Wacław Micuta (son of Wanda) and the Lithuanian historian Vanda Daugirdaitė-Sruogienė (born Wanda Dowgierd, daughter of Jadwiga).