Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski (, Lithuanian: Аdomas Jurgis Čartoriskis, Russian: Адам Ежи Чарторыйский; also known as Adam George Czartoryski in English; 14 January 1770 – 15 July 1861) was a Polish-Lithuanian noble, statesman and author. He was the son of Prince Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski and Izabela Fleming.
Czartoryski became Minister of Foreign Affairs of Imperial Russia and was rumored to have been a lover of Louise of Baden, Empress consort to Alexander I of Russia.
Czartoryski held the distinction of having been part, at different times, of the governments of two mutually hostile countries. He was de facto Chairman of the Russian Council of Ministers (1804–6), and President of the Polish National Government during the November 1830 Uprising against Imperial Russia.
The 1975–1976 academic year at the College of Europe was named in his honour.
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