Edward Jełowicki

Edward Bożeniec Jełowicki born 1803 in Hubnik Western Ukraine, died 10 November 1848 in Vienna, was a Polish landowner, decorated Colonel in the Polish army, insurgent, officer in the Foreign Legion and commander of the Vienna artillery. He was an engineer and inventor.

Descended from Ruthenian aristocracy, his family had been integrated into the Polish Szlachta and converted from Orthodoxy to Roman Catholicism during the Republic of Two Nations. Edward was the eldest of four children and an alumnus of the Vienna Theresian Military Academy, the postgraduate École d’état-major in Paris and the Ecole Centrale Paris. In 1836 during a quiet spell in London, following the collapse of the November Uprising, he designed and took out a British Patent on his Steam turbine. In Paris he frequented Adam Mickiewicz, whose Paris publisher was Edward's brother, Alexander Jełowicki. He also met with Frederic Chopin.

Caught up in the Spring of Nations that swept over Europe in 1848, he was executed in Vienna on the order of Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz. He left a widow and two children.