The Kronenbergs: 19th-century Warsaw's most powerful bankers and industrialists

The Kronenberg family was the most powerful clan of industrialists and bankers in the Kingdom of Poland during the second half of the 19th century. Their history is described by Dr. Andrzej Krajewski in the latest issue of Pomocnik Historyczny, a supplement to Polityka. The Kronenbergs influenced literary figures such as Stanisław Wokulski from Prusa's "The Doll".

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