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Nicolas Chopin
Teacher
Male
Born
Apr 15, 1771
Hometown
Marainville
Died
May 3, 1844
Death Place
Poland
Nicolas Chopin was a teacher of French language in Prussian- and Russian-ruled Poland, and father of Polish composer Frédéric Chopin.
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Nicolas Chopin
d.1844
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CHILDHOOD
1771
Birth
Born on April 15, 1771.
TEENAGE
1787
16 Years Old
In 1787, when Weydlich was returning to Poland, he took sixteen-year-old Nicolas with him and engaged him in his Warsaw tobacco factory.
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1789
18 Years Old
In connection with the 1789 outbreak of the French Revolution and the possibility of being conscripted into the French Army, he declined to go to Strasbourg, as requested, on business for Pac.
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TWENTIES
1794
23 Years Old
His plans came to naught due to illness, which lifted shortly before the 1794 outbreak of the Kościuszko Uprising.
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THIRTIES
1806
35 Years Old
Nicolas spent the next several years at Żelazowa Wola with Countess Ludwika Skarbek and her family (relatives of the Łączyńskis), tutoring the four children. On 2 June 1806, he married a poor relation of the Skarbeks who lived with them and ran the household, Tekla Justyna Krzyżanowska (daughter of Jakub Krzyżanowski and Antonina, née Kołomińska, of Długie in Włocławek County).
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1810
39 Years Old
In July that year, Nicolas and Justyna and their children moved to Warsaw, to the Saxon Palace, which housed the Warsaw Lyceum where he would teach French language. In October 1810, Nicolas was appointed "collaborator" (kollaborant) and, in June 1814, regular professor of French language at the Lyceum.
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FORTIES
1812
41 Years Old
Apart from these positions, in 1812 he was appointed professor of French language at an Elementary Artillery and Engineers School (Szkoła Elementarna Artylerii i Inżynierów), and in 1820 at a Military Training School (Szkoła Aplikacyjna Wojskowa), where he was active until the school was closed down in 1831.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
1837
66 Years Old
In addition, for a brief period in 1837, he was lecturer in French language at the Roman Catholic Clerical Academy (Akademia Duchowna) in Warsaw. Nicolas Chopin died of tuberculosis in Warsaw on 3 May 1844, aged seventy-three. He is interred with his wife at Powązki Cemetery. On 2 June 1806, Chopin married Justyna née Krzyżanowska.
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1841
70 Years Old
Nevertheless, he continued on the Examining Committee till 1841.
1844
73 Years Old
Died on May 3, 1844.
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