Edward August Landié, author of Polish coursebooks for French language teaching, and Samuel Orgelbrand, his publisher

The article presents Edward Landié (1788-1853), author of popular coursebooks for French language teaching, and its publisher, Samuel Orgelbrand (1810-1868), who highly contributed to the development of the book market in the Kingdom of Poland, in the years 1840-1868. Landié was of French origin and Orgelbrand – of a Jewish one. Both started their activities in Warsaw in the years 1829-1930. E. Landié reached the high position of the Warsaw French language teacher and became an outstanding author of coursebooks. S. Orgelbrand managed an outstanding Warsaw publishing house. Their cooperation is an example of a significant contribution of different environments into the development of education and culture not only in Warsaw but the whole trapped Poland.