Karol Boscamp-Lasopolski

Karol Boscamp-Lasopolski (also Boskamp, de Boscamp, de Boskamp; died 28 June 1794) was a Dutch diplomat in service of Poland and Russia. He was a Chamberlain in the court of Polish king Stanisław August Poniatowski. He was lynched by a mob during the Warsaw Uprising of 1794.

Biography Little is known about his youth. He was born in the Netherlands; some other sources note his French origin. He served as a courier for the Prussian envoy in Istanbul during the Seven Years' War.

From 1766 he was responsible for the Poniatowski's correspondence with the East. In 1791 he agitated against an alliance between Poland and the Ottoman Empire. Under a name Agathomachos-Wyjaśnicki he published a brochure La Turcofédéromanie avec son spécifique à côté gratis... suives du traité d`alliance entre la Pologne et la Turquie, which caused a minor scandal, as it revealed the plans for the said alliance. During the Polish–Russian War of 1792 he left Warsaw, as he became unpopular with many of the patriotic and anti-Russian activists. He served under Russian diplomats Jacob Sievers and Yakov Bulgakov and was active in the background of the Grodno Sejm of 1793. on the orders of the Polish provisional government. During the unrest of 28 June 1794 he was dragged from the jail and lynched (most sources specify he was publicly hanged