Franciszek Dionizy Kniaźnin

Polish author
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Also known as: Franciszek Dyonizy Kniaźnin
Quick Facts
Born:
Oct. 4, 1750, Vitebsk, Pol. [now Vitsebsk, Belarus]
Died:
Aug. 25, 1807, Końskowola, near Puławy, Galicia, Austrian Empire [now in Poland] (aged 56)

Franciszek Dionizy Kniaźnin (born Oct. 4, 1750, Vitebsk, Pol. [now Vitsebsk, Belarus]—died Aug. 25, 1807, Końskowola, near Puławy, Galicia, Austrian Empire [now in Poland]) was a Polish poet, playwright, and translator, a court poet of the princely Czartoryski family. Kniaźnin was educated in a Jesuit college and entered the noviate. When the order was disbanded, he was attached in 1783 to the Czartoryskis, for whom he produced lyric poetry, odes, love poems, fables, plays, and verses of a religious or patriotic nature. While in residence at the Puławy palace, he wrote Na rewolucję 1794 roku (“For the 1794 [Kościuszko] Revolution”) ...(100 of 159 words)