Jan Tyssowski

After the failed 1831 November Uprising, Russian authorities prohibited his return to Lwow, and he went study at the University of Vienna.

He was a Polish political organizer in Galicia with Ludwik Mieroslawski, and was active within the aristocracy and insurrectionist movement.

Intending a "classless society", he declared universal suffrage, emancipation of the peasantry, and the discontinuation of rents for peasants.

The Austrian Empire captured Tyssowski who surrendered to the occupying forces, and allowed him to emigrate.

He worked for the United States government as a second class clerk and later assistant examiner for the US Patent Office.