Count Jan Potocki was a Polish nobleman, ethnologist, linguist, traveller and author of the Enlightenment period, whose life and exploits made him a celebrated figure in Poland. He is known chiefly for his picaresque novel, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa.
- Occupation
- anthropologist, historian, writer, engineer
- Position held
- Deputy to the Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Citizenship
- Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Russian Empire
- Born
- March 8, 1761
- Died
- December 2, 1815, 1815, December 23, 1815
