Leon Walerian Ostroróg

Leon Walerian Ostroróg (1867 in Paris – 1932 in London), was an Islamic scholar, jurist, adviser to the Ottoman government and émigré in Istanbul.

[1] Meanwhile, Ostroróg underwent schooling in France and attended the Sorbonne where he completed a doctorate, later specialising in Islamic Law.

It was also a place to which his father had travelled in his youth and is reputed to have taken a death-bed photograph of the Polish bard, Adam Mickiewicz.

His erudition and social connections led to a friendship with a number of French intellectuals, including, Pierre Loti.

He was enamoured of the country and married Marie-Jeanne Lorando of Christian European descent, but from a long-established Levantine family with whom he had two sons, Jean and Stanislas.