Editing Gabriel Narutowicz (section)

==Family==
Gabriel Józef Narutowicz was born into a [[Polish-Lithuanian identity|Polish-Lithuanian]] [[szlachta|noble family]] in [[Telšiai]], then part of the [[Russian Empire]] after the [[partitions of Poland|partitioning]] of the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://dzieje.pl/postacie/gabriel-narutowicz-1865-1922 |title=Gabriel Narutowicz (1865-1922) |access-date=29 October 2019}}</ref> His father, Jan Narutowicz, was a local district judge and landholder in the [[Samogitia]]n village of {{Ill|Brėvikiai|lt}}. As a result of his participation in the [[January Uprising|January 1863 Uprising]] against Imperial Russia, he was sentenced to a year in prison; he died when Gabriel was only one.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://opinie.wp.pl/gabriel-narutowicz-6151603717531777c |title=Gabriel Narutowicz - Najnowsze informacje |access-date=29 February 2020}}</ref>

Gabriel’s mother, Wiktoria Szczepkowska, was Jan's third wife. Following her husband's death, she raised the sons herself. An educated woman, intrigued by the philosophy of the [[Age of Enlightenment]], she had a great influence on the development of Gabriel and his siblings' world view. In 1873 she moved to [[Liepāja]], [[Latvia]], so that her children would not be forced to attend a Russian school ([[Russification]] in Latvia after the Uprising of 1863 was less enforced than in Lithuania and Poland, the center of the uprising).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://zw.lt/opinie/gabriel-narutowicz-litewski-polak-prezydent-polski-skonczylby-150-lat/ |title=Gabriel Narutowicz, litewski Polak, prezydent Polski, skończyłby 150 lat… |access-date=29 February 2020}}</ref>

An illustration of the dual nature of the family's identity is Gabriel Narutowicz’s brother, [[Stanisław Narutowicz]], who, after Lithuania regained independence in 1918, became a [[Lithuanians|Lithuanian]], not Polish, citizen. Earlier, towards the end of [[World War I]], Stanisław had become a member of the [[Council of Lithuania]], the provisional [[Lithuanian parliament]]. He was a [[Signatory of the Act of Independence of Lithuania|signatory]] of the [[Act of Independence of Lithuania]] of 16 February 1918.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://przegladbaltycki.pl/6698,85-temu-samobojstwo-popelnil-stanislaw-narutowicz.html |title=85 lat temu samobójstwo popełnił Stanisław Narutowicz |access-date=31 October 2019}}</ref>