Leon Warnerke

Leon Warnerke was a Polish engineer and inventor in the field of photography, independence activist and revolutionary. Leon Warnerke was a pseudonym; his real name was Władysław Małachowski.

Władysław Małachowski was born on 26 May 1837 to a Polish-Lithuanian szlachta family in manor Macie, Grodno Governorate, Lithuania, Russian Empire (today Belarus). He graduated from the Corps of Railroad Engineers in 1859. In 1863 he joined the January Uprising, and then entered the National Government in Vilnius. After the uprising chased by police, fled with his wife on board the English ship to the UK. He settled in London, under the name Leon Warnerke. He died 7 October 1900 in Geneva, Switzerland.