Stanisław Plater (Lithuanian: Stanislovas Pliateris; 10 May 1784 – 8 May 1851) was a Polish-Lithuanian historian, geographer, officer.
[1][2][3][4] Stanisław Plater was born in 1784 in Daugėliškis, Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
[2] His father was Kazimierz Konstanty Plater [pl], the last Lithuanian Vice-Chancellor, and his mother was Izabela née Borch, the first editor of a children's magazine in Poland, who published the weekly magazine Przyjaciel Dzieci [pl] in Warsaw in 1789–1792.
[5] In 1806–1815, he served as an officer in the army of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Russian campaign, rising to the rank of lieutenant.
[2][3] He published a number of works on geography, military and history in Polish and French.