id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5372 Józef Wybicki - Wikipedia .html text/html 1311 207 69 He finished a Jesuit school, and in his youth was a junior court official.[3] Wybicki was elected a deputy to the Repnin Sejm, the session of Polish parliament in 1767, on the eve of the First Partition of Poland.[2] Subsequently he joined the insurgency known as the Confederation of Bar (1768–1772), aimed at opposing the Russian influence and king Stanisław August Poniatowski.[2][3] He was one of the advisors (konsyliarz) of the Confederacy, acting as a diplomat.[4] After the failure of the uprising, he spent some time in the Netherlands, studying law at Leiden University.[3] Wybicki was a writer, journalist and a poet.[2] He wrote political-themed poems, plays and political treaties advocating reforms in Poland in the 1770s and 1780s.[2][3] His works of that time analyzed the Polish political system, the concepts of liberty, and advocated for more rights for the peasantry.[10] He would also publish more political brochures in the 1800s, advocating for liberal reforms in the Duchy of Warsaw.[3] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5372.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5372.txt