“Casimir III the Great”, 1864 by Leopold Loeffler (1827 - 1898)  ■ Leopold Loeffler, also spelled Lö

“Casimir III the Great”, 1864 by Leopold Loeffler (1827 - 1898)  ■ Leopold Loeffler, also spelled Löffler, (October 27, 1827 – February 6, 1898), was a Polish realist painter of the late Romantic period popular in the second half of the 19th century under the foreign partitions of Poland.■ Casimir III the Great was the only Polish King to receive the title of “Great”. He built extensively during his reign, and reformed the Polish army along with the country’s civil and criminal laws, 1333–1370. Casimir inherited a kingdom weakened by war and made it prosperous and wealthy. He reformed the Polish army and doubled the size of the kingdom through conquest. He reformed the judicial system and introduced a legal code, gaining the title “the Polish Justinian”. Casimir built extensively and founded the University of Kraków, the oldest Polish university. He also confirmed privileges and protections previously granted to Jews and encouraged them to settle in Poland in great numbers. -- source link

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