Jan Paweł Lelewel

Jan Paweł Lelewel (26 June 1796 in Warsaw – 9 April 1847 in Bern) was a Polish military and civil engineer, builder, and painter.

They were all sons of Karol Maurycy Lelewel, secretary treasurer of the Commission of National Education and of Ewa Szeluta-Małynicka (1763-1837).

His paternal grandfather had been the court doctor of August III, Henryk Loelhoeffel von Lowensprung.

From 1809, he attended the School for Cadets in Warsaw, after which he took part as a sergeant major in the 1812 invasion of Russia.

He took part in Polish November Uprising, in which he was in charge of maintaining fortifications in Praga, then a suburb of Warsaw.