Józef Boruwłaski was born near Halicz in Poland in November 1739. His parents seem to have been impoverished gentry, but it is impossible that Józef had...
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Daniel Lambert (section Józef Boruwłaski)
visited by Józef Boruwłaski, a 3-foot-3-inch (99 cm) dwarf then in his seventies. Born in 1739 to a poor family in rural Pokuttya, Boruwłaski was generally...
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1682) court dwarf of the English queen Henrietta Maria of France Józef Boruwłaski (1739 – 1837), Polish-born court dwarf and musician who toured in European...
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"Count" in Australia, but it is not clear if he used the title himself. Józef Boruwłaski, a Polish-born dwarf and musician who settled in Durham, England, and...
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Norwegian politician with achondroplasia. 1988– Poland 99 cm (39 in) Józef Boruwłaski Polish "count". 1739–1837 Australia 127 cm (50 in) Alan Eggleston...
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another famous Durham resident, the 3 ft 3 inch tall Polish dwarf, Józef Boruwłaski. When these two friends - one little and one large - strolled along...
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from Arkansas and a Confederate officer during the American Civil War Józef Boruwłaski (1739–1837), Polish-born dwarf who toured in European and Turkish courts...
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political activist Stanley Booth (born 1942), American music journalist Józef Boruwłaski (1739–1837), Polish dwarf musician James Boswell (1740–1795), Scottish...
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included the Duc du Richelieu and Voltaire. In 1759, the Polish dwarf Józef Boruwłaski visited the court. He was a witty, urbane young man of 20, shorter...
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November 2018, includes a case displaying some of the belongings of Józef Boruwłaski, a court dwarf known as "the Little Count" who wrote the "Memoirs of...
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between Spain and her Colonies. He was the editor of the Memoirs of Józef Boruwłaski (1820). Burdon married in 1798 Jane Dickson, a daughter of Lieutenant-general...
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Fugitive Miscellany, Sans Souci, 1792, jests and anecdotes. Dedicated to Józef Boruwłaski. Excerpta Antiqua; or a Collection of Original Manuscripts, 1797. Rules...
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