Jan Kazimierz Wilczyński

Jan Kazimierz Wilczyński, a portrait, published in Polish press in the late 1800s.

Jan Kazimierz Wilczyński (; 6 February 1806 – 2 March 1885) was a Polish-Lithuanian medical doctor, collector and publisher. He is famous for publishing the Album Wileńskie , which is the greatest monument of 19th-century Polish and Lithuanian graphics. Initially, he thought of publishing it in Vilnius, but as he was unsatisfied with the quality of the lithographies of the local lithography workshops. Wilczyński transported the album sheets to the Lemercier et Cie lithographic printing house in Paris, which was a very experienced publisher. The album was released in a series of separate notebooks in which the publisher put together 353 sheets of graphics over 40 years of continuous work. The album consists of 364 lithographies, chromolithographies and carvings. The first notebook of the album released by Wilczyński was mostly related to Vilnius, its architecture and surroundings. While planning the second and other notebooks, Wilczyński expanded the publication's subject matter and included the events of the ancient history of Lithuania and Poland, portraits of famous historical figures, contemporaries of the publisher - artists, sponsors, subscribers. In addition, after the Imperial Russian Government closed the Catholic churches and monasteries after the uprisings of 1831 and 1863, Wilczyński sought to keep their beauty immortalized in the album.

From 1856, he belonged to the Vilnius Provisional Archaeological Commission and worked for some time at the Museum of Antiquities in Vilnius.