Editing Stanisław Wojciechowski (section)

== Early life ==
Stanisław Wojciechowski was born on 15 March 1869 in [[Kalisz]] into a Polish noble family with strong ties to the [[intelligentsia]]. He was one of seven children of [[Second Lieutenant]] Feliks Wojciechowski (1825-1881), a caretaker of a prison in Kalisz who participated during the [[January Uprising]], and his wife Florentyna Vorhoff. He was raised in a spirit of patriotism and devotion to his homeland. In 1888, he graduated in the [[Kalisz|Men's Classical Junior High School in Kalisz]] and began his studies at the [[University of Warsaw|Imperial University of Warsaw]] where he studied at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics until 1891. He belonged to the circle of the most active conspirators, participant of the secret student groups for self-improvement. Wojciechowski was active during his studies, first in the conspiratorial organization [[Association of the Polish Youth "Zet"]], and later in the burgeoning socialist movement. By 1892, he had abandoned his studies and chose the life of an exile after his second arrest and detention by the czarist police, first going to [[Zürich]] and then [[Paris]]. There he learned the trade of typesetter with which he supported himself.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.info.kalisz.pl/biograf/wojcie.htm |title=Stanisław Wojciechowski (1869-1953) |language=pl |website=info.kalisz.pl |access-date=3 December 2023}}</ref>

In 1892, Wojciechowski co-founded the [[Polish Socialist Party]] and many nationalist and socialists met in Paris. He travelled several more times illegally to [[Congress Poland]] and the [[Russian Empire]] and smuggled printing machine components and publications into the country. Together with Piłsudski, he formed the backbone of the socialist movement in Russian Poland. In 1899, he married [[Maria Wojciechowska]], a daughter of a wealthy landowner of [[szlachta]] descent.<ref>Stanisław Wojciechowski, "Moje wspomnienia" (Warsaw–Lwów: Książnica-Atlas, 1938), pp. 53–55, 130</ref>