Leon Piniński
Leon Piniński | |
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A 1934 portrait of Piniński by Kazimierz Pochwalski | |
| Statthalter of Galicia-Lodomeria | |
| In office 31 March 1898 – June 1903 | |
| Monarch | Franz Joseph I |
| Preceded by | Eustachy Stanisław Sanguszko |
| Succeeded by | Andrzej Kazimierz Potocki |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 8 March 1857 Lemberg, Austrian Empire (now Lviv, Ukraine) |
| Died | 4 April 1938 (aged 81) Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine) |
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Leon Jan Piniński (8 March 1857 – 4 April 1938) was a Polish scholar, diplomat, art historian and politician. A professor of Roman law and one-time rector of the Lwów University (1928–1929), he devoted much of his life to a political career in his home city of Lwów (modern Lviv, Ukraine), first under Austria-Hungary then in independent Poland.