


Stanislas Hernisz (Polish: Stanisław Hernisz) (1805 in Warsaw – 20 April 1866 in London) was a Polish freedom-fighter, journalist, physician, employee of the United States Department of State and sinologist of Jewish descent.
He was born as a son of the Warsaw merchant Gustaw Hernisz and his wife Karolina.[1] He was a pupil of the Warsaw Rabbinical School. After the outbreak of the November Uprising in 1830–1831 against Russians, despite the objection of the conservative Jewish community, together with Józef Berkowicz, son of the Jewish colonel of the Polish Army during the Kościuszko Uprising, Berek Joselewicz, he applied for establishing of a volunteer Jewish battalion.[2]
To encourage the Jewish youth to the participation in the uprising, he wrote the text of the "Patriotic Song” to the music of Frédéric Chopin song “Hulanka” (“Revel” Op. 74 No. 4, 1830), transposed from C major to E major.[3]
He was fighting in the November Uprising with the rank of lieutenant of the First Masur regiment. After the defeat of the uprising he emigrated to France and was engaged mainly in journalism. Together with Jakub Malinowski and Napoleon Kraczak he published 1833 a volume of translations from the Polish language L'exilé de la Pologne (Polish émigrés).[4] In the Paris monthly “Północ” No. 9 from 15 May 1835 he published the article "Polacy wyznania mojżeszowego" (Poles of mosaic faith).[5]
During his stay in France he joined the Paris staff of the United States Department of State, and emigrated later to the United States. During his service he studied medicine and obtained the Medicine Doctor degree. He was sent as Attaché to the U. S. Chinese Mission, where he was also employed as physician. Hernisz became the member of the American Oriental Society. He published 1846 in the Bulletin of the Proceedings of the National Institute for the Promotion of Science a treatise “On the Chinese language”.[6]
1854年、彼はマサチューセッツ州ボストンで『カリフォルニアおよびその他の地域のアメリカ人と中国人のための英語と中国語会話ガイド』を出版した。[ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ]この本は、カリフォルニア・ゴールドラッシュ(1848~1855年)の際に中国人労働者とのコミュニケーションに使用された。ボストンに帰国後、ヘルニスは医師として開業し、英語、フランス語、スペイン語、イタリア語、ドイツ語の知識を活かした。[ 10 ]
彼は中国への次の旅の途中、ロンドンで亡くなった。