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Leon Biliński

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Leon Biliński
Minister of Finance of Austria-Hungary
Personal details
Born(1846-06-15)15 June 1846
Zalishchyky
Died15 June 1923(1923-06-15) (aged 77)
NationalityPolish

Leon Biliński (15 June 1846 in Zalischyky – 15 June 1923 in Vienna) was a Polish-Austrian statesman of the Biliński family. He had several important political functions in the Habsburg monarchy and independent Poland: He was President of Austrian State Railways (Kaiserlich-königliche österreichische Staatsbahnen) (1893-1895), Minister of Finance of Austria (1895–97, 1909–11) and Minister of Finance of Austria-Hungary (1912-1915), Governor of the Austro-Hungarian Bank (1900-1909), Governor of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1912−1915), Minister of Finance of the Republic of Poland (1919),[1] president of the Supreme National Committee (1914−1917)[citation needed] and Governor of Galicia (1895−1897).[citation needed]

Biliński was one of the first goveners to strongly support women's intellectual and economic emancipation and their free access to higher education. In 1876 he became a member of the Polish Academy of Learning.[2] His academic and feminist efforts later bore fruit — in 1897, the first female students graduated from Lwów University. He was awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta in 1923.

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  1. ^ "Ministrowie finansów - Ministerstwo Finansów - Portal Gov.pl".
  2. ^ "Leon Biliński biography". Virtual Shtetl.