Filipowicz was born on 21 November 1873 in
Warsaw. He attended school in
Dąbrowa Górnicza. He worked as a coal miner and became a
socialist political activist; from 1895 he was active in the Dąbrowa Workers' Committee. He became an active member of the
Polish Socialist Party (
PPS) and editor of a socialist paper for miners (
Górnik, Miner). He accompanied Piłsudski on his 1904 voyage to
Japan. or acting (sources vary)
Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (11–17 November 1918). Later he was named Poland's ambassador to
Georgia—due to his involvement in Piłsudski's
Prometheist project—but in the aftermath of the
Soviet invasion of Georgia (which was subsequently annexed as the
Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic) he did not assume this post but was instead arrested there by the Soviets and interned. During and after
World War II, Filipowicz was a member of the
Polish Government in Exile and of the
National Council of the Republic of Poland (1941–42 and 1949–53). He died on 18 August 1953 in
London. ==See also==