Leopold Stanisław Kronenberg

Leopold Stanisław Kronenberg (born 24 March 1812 in Warsaw, Poland, died 5 April 1878 in Nice, France) was a Polish banker, investor, and financier, and a leader of the 1863 January uprising against the Russian Empire.

His father Samuel Eleazar Kronenberg (1773–1826) was a native of Wyszogród who led a small bank in Warsaw.

They had six children: Stanisław Leopold (1846–94), entrepreneur; Władysław Edward (1848–92), musician and philanthropist; Leopold Julian (1849–1937), banker; Tekla Julia (1851–52); Maria Róża (1854–1944)—wife of Karol Zamoyski, and subsequently of Gustaw Taube—hostess of a famous Warsaw literary salon; and Rozalia (born 1857), wife of Aleksander Orsetti.

From 1839 to 1860, having obtained the concession of the tobacco monopoly in the Kingdom of Poland, Kronenberg amassed a considerable fortune which he used to develop the country's economy: sugar industry, construction of railways, commercial activities, and banking sectors.

Between 1868 and 1871, he built in Warsaw a monumental home, Kronenberg Palace, which burned in September 1939 and was dismantled in the 1960s.

Portrait of Leopold Stanisław Kronenberg, by Leopold Horovitz (1837–1917)
Photo of Leopold Kronenberg by Karol Beyer
The historic headquarters of Bank Handlowy in Warsaw
Kronenberg Palace in Warsaw, which was destroyed by fire in 1939
Leopold Stanisław Kronenberg's burial place, at Kronenberg Family Chapel in the Warsaw Reformed Cemetery
The Kronenberg Family