A Life Shaped by Duty and Exile Karol Malankiewicz lived a life defined by the shifting borders of nineteenth-century Europe. Born in Dzików, he was the son of Bazil Malankiewicz and Maria Mroczka. His early years were marked by military service; he joined the Polish army in 1824 and studied at the Warsaw school of officer-students. The turbulence of history soon found him, as he participated in the November Uprising of 1830, earning t…