Tadeusz Rejtan | |
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Tadeusz Rejtan, anonymous painting | |
Coat of arms | Rejtan |
Born | Hruszówka | 20 August 1742
Died | 8 August 1780 Hruszówka | (aged 37)
Noble family | Rejtan (Reytan) |
Father | Dominik Rejtan |
Mother | Teresa Wołodkowicz |
Tadeusz Reytan (surname also alternatively spelled as Rejtan, and rarely Reyten; Belarusian: Тадэвуш Рэйтан; Lithuanian: Tadas Reitanas;[1] 20 August 1742 – 8 August 1780) was a nobleman from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was a member of the Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from the Nowogródek Voivodeship. Reytan is remembered for a dramatic gesture he made in September 1773, as a deputy of the Partition Sejm. There, Reytan tried to prevent the legalization of the first partition of Poland, a scene that has been immortalized in the painting Rejtan by Jan Matejko. He has been the subject of many other art works, and is a symbol of patriotism in Lithuania, Belarus and Poland.[1] Despite his efforts, the partition of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was legalized soon afterwards.