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On October 14, 1863, August, Count Cieszkowski, bought the mill settlement in Żabikowo. In the years 1870-1876, the Higher Agricultural School operated on the farm. Halina. Agricultural School named after Halina in Żabikowo (today Luboń) was established on the initiative of Count August. Cieszkowski and was named after the founder's wife, Helena née Cieszkowska (1836-1861), who died prematurely at the age of 25. Originally, the school was to be established in Wierzenica, where the building was erected in 1861. Ultimately, not without perturbations, it was established in Żabikowo after A. Cieszkowski purchased the former mill settlement "Olszak", enlarged the area for the use of the farm, expanded it and handed it over to the Central Economic Society (CTG) for educational purposes. This Polish institution, which is developing ambitiously and dynamically, gained the status of a higher education institution after two years. It educated a team of future peasants, managers and tenants from not only Greater Poland, but also the Kingdom of Poland. The scope, high level and growing reputation of the school did not please the Prussian invader. Through administrative methods of introducing further restrictions for Poles as part of the "Kulturkampf" program ("cultural fight" - expressed, among others, in the fight against the Catholic Church or the Polish language), the German authorities had to suspend education at this institution on October 1, 1876. Despite many efforts, also in Berlin itself, not only by A. Cieszkowski, the school was never reopened. On March 3, 1879, the general meeting of CTG made the final decision to liquidate it. The estate - the Żabikowski farm after Halina's school, by a donation deed of July 9, 1919, August Cieszkowski - junior, allocated to the University of Poznań, which was being established in the reborn Poland, from which the present-day University of Life Sciences in Poznań was eventually born, bearing the name of Count Augustus in the recent past. Cieszkowski.