Ignacy Ścibor Marchocki

Ignacy Ścibor Marchocki (1755–1827) of the Clan of Ostoja[1] was a Polish noble, famous in the first quarter of the nineteenth century.

[2] Ignacy Ścibor Marchocki was born into a noble family that was part of the Clan of Ostoja.

His father, Michał Ścibor Marchocki, died when his son was still little and so Ignacy was raised by his uncle Wojciech who did his best to provide for the boy's education.

Surviving hard time in Prussian army, Ignacy came back home from this expedition with character made of steel.

During his time in the Prussian army, Ignacy learned several languages including French and German; he was also studying Roman law, literature and mythology.

The first thing Ścibor Marchocki did was to set up border pillars in 1793 that declared the Minkowce State surrounding the area of one town and eighteen villages.

[5] There was a hospital, there were doctors that, specially during the time of plague, there were schools for children and Marchocki planned to open a university on his estates.

[5] In summertime, Ścibor Marchocki, called Dux et Redux, was often seen wearing a Roman toga on his estates, something nobody saw as something strange.

There were already printed publications about the Ścibor Marchocki and his State, one of the most famous is the play of Juliusz Słowacki in 1832 called "King of Ladawa".

In the end, several landlords reconsidered their management of their estates and in the end of the century most people in Podolian Voivodeship and Volhynia lived good life on their estates living in harmony with the Landlords - thanks to the humanistic movement of Ignacy Scibor-Marchocki.