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Name
  
Franciszek Matejko

Role
  
Musician

Children
  
Jan Matejko


Franciszek Ksawery Matejko

Died
  
October 26, 1860, Krakow, Poland

Grandchildren
  
Helena Unierzyska, Regina Matejko, Jerzy Matejko, Tadeusz Matejko, Beata Matejko

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Franciszek Ksawery Matejko (Czech: František Xaver Matějka) (born 1789 or 13 January 1793 in Roudnice, died 26 October 1860 in Kraków) was a Czech musician, father of Polish painter Jan Matejko.

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He was probably the son of farmer Josef Matějka and peasant woman Magdalena Knava from Roudnice, then in Kingdom of Bohemia, Habsburg Monarchy, but other sources gave him other parents: organist František Josef Matějka and Mariana Dolanská.

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After his mother's death he lived in Olomouc with his uncle canon Urbánek. He learned music in Hradec Králové. After that he went to Poland and became a music teacher.

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On 22 November 1826 he married Joanna Karolina Rossberg, daughter of nobleman Jan Piotr Rossberg and his wife Anna Marianna Tusz.

Franciszek and his wife had eleven children:

  • Franciszek Edward
  • Edmund Marcin
  • Zygmunt Hilary
  • Emilia Łucja
  • Alojzy (Adolf) Franciszek
  • Józef Eustachy
  • Karol Franciszek
  • Maria Waleria
  • Jan Alojzy
  • Kazimierz Wilhelm
  • Bolesław Wilhelm.
  • References

    Franciszek Ksawery Matejko Wikipedia