Hugo Kołłątaj (1750 to 1812) was a prominent Polish constitutional reformer and educationalist and one of the most prominent figures of the Polish Enlightenment. He served as Deputy Chancellor of the Crown from 1791 to 1792 and was a Catholic priest, social and political activist, political thinker, historian, philosopher and polymath. Born in Volhynia into a family of Polish nobility, he studied law at the Kraków Academy, took holy orders around 1775 and studied in Vienna and Italy. He reformed the Kraków Academy, whose rector he was from 1783 to 1786, replacing Latin with Polish in lectures, and in 1786 he moved to Warsaw as Referendary of Lithuania and joined the radical wing of the Patriotic Party.
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He served as Deputy Chancellor of the Crown between 1791-1792.
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The new constitution was drafted by the King, with contributions from Ignacy Potocki, Hugo Kołłątaj and others.
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