ALBERTRANDI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA. - Polish Jesuit, b. 7 Dec. 1731 in Warsaw, d. there 10 Aug. 1808. Son of an Italian painter who lived at the court of Stanisław August Poniatowski, he was first director of the king's library, then professor of philosophy at the college of nobles. There he had among his other pupils Felice Lubienski, nephew of the archbishop primate Stanislao Lubienski, and accompanied him as tutor to Italy. Having left the Order shortly before its suppression, he continued his literary works and gathered a very abundant collection of documents for the history of Poland, which together with the collection of Fr. A. S. Naruszewicz, form almost 250 folio volumes. He had broad culture and knew many languages. He founded in Warsaw the "Society of the Friends of the Sciences." He wrote numerous works on Polish history.

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BIBL.: J. Brown, Biblioteka pisarzowe asystyencyj polskiej S. g., Poznań 1862, p. 913; Sommervogel, I, coll. 132-34; VIII, col. 1599; L. Koch, Jesuiten-Lexikon, Paderborn 1934, coll. 32-33.

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Albertrandi, Giovanni Battista

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