Józef Mikołaj Potocki

Józef Mikołaj Kazimierz Marian Alfred Jakub Potocki (8 September 1862 – 25 August 1922) was a Polish nobleman, hunter, traveller and writer.

Potocki was the second son of Galician governor Alfred Józef (1817–1889) owner of Łańcut and Maria née Sanguszko (1830–1903).

After an early education by private tutors at home he went to the Franciscan University at Lviv where he studied law following which he returned to manage his estate.

One of the first attempts to bring European bison from Białowieza back into Ukraine was made by Jan Sztolcman on Potocki's hunting estate “Pylyavyn” (Novograd Volyn district of Zhitomir region).

He shot an elephant and wrote about his feelings as being one of achievement and questioned the sentiments of remorse expressed by other hunters in their writings.