Emil Czarliński

Emil Schedlin-Czarliński (5 May 1833 – 21 March 1913) was a Polish landowner, January Uprising participant, and a member of the Reichstag of the North German Confederation.

Biography Early life Czarliński was born in Chwarzno as the eldest son of Felicjan Czarliński. He attended Gymnasiums in Konitz and Chełmno. While still a Gymnasium student, he participated in the Greater Poland Uprising of 1848, along with his father and his younger brother, Leon.

Having passed his Abitur in 1853, he went on to study law at the University of Breslau. He finished his degree in Berlin in 1858, and then took his law apprenticeship in Berlin.

January Uprising When the January Uprising broke out in 1863, Czarliński, along with his father and brothers, took up arms, forming the core of insurrectionary leadership in West Prussia. In the second half of March 1864, he joined a short lived expedition led by , for which he served as a recruiter. In the Reichstag, he was an advocate of Polish schools in West Prussia. In 1969, Emil and Leon founded the Society for Moral Interests of Polish People Under Prussian Rule in Toruń. The organization's stated goal was cultivation of Polish culture and education and advocating for the equality of Polish people in all of Prussia.

Emil Czarliński was the son of Felicjan Czarliński, then owner of the estate of Chwarzno, and Emilia Czarlińska née Rokicka. He had four younger brothers – Leon, Eugeniusz, Maksymilian and Wiktor – all of them participants in the January Uprising. Leon Czarliński was, like his brother, a representative to the Prussian House of Representatives, and later to the Reichstag of the German Empire, for the Polish Party.

Czarliński married Hortensja Donimirska, the daughter of Teodor Donimirski, in 1860. The pair had eight children: Teodor, Felicjan, Wincenty, Emilia, Maria, Helena, Józefa and Zofia.