 His education began in the Jesuits school in Rawa Mazowiecka, which was at that time a community in Congress Poland.He passed Abitur on the German-language gymnasium in Bromberg (now Bydgoszcz), the historic capital of the Royal Prussian Bromberg district.Between 1793 and 1797, he studied theology in Rome (Polish Rzym) at the "Collegium Germanicum".