Stanisław Kronenberg

For two years he studied political economy and finance, and was granted at Paris the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

During the Franco-Prussian War he took part in the defense of Paris, retiring with the rank of lieutenant and the cross of the Legion of Honor.

Upon the death of his father in 1878, he returned to Warsaw, and assumed the management of his commercial and railroad interests.

He was made president of the Tiraspol and Upper Vistula lines, director of the Vienna line, president of the Bank of Commerce, and director of various other commercial institutions; and was concerned in the publication of Gazeta Polska (The Polish Gazette), Nowiny (News, edited by Aleksander Świętochowski, then for a year by Bolesław Prus) and Biblioteka Umiejętności Prawnych.

He was married to Elizabeth Półtoracką, with whom he had a prenuptial legally recognized daughter Maria Anna, whose husband was Marie Jehan Bourrée Marc Philibert Comte de Corberon.