InfoPersons, originating from Poland
Adam Mickiewicz
Born 24 December 1798 near Novogrodek, LithuaniaDied 26 November 1855 in Constantinopel (now Istanbul)
He is one of the best-known Polish language poets and writers, considered the greatest Polish Romantic poet of the 19th century, alongside Zygmunt Krasiński and Juliusz Słowacki.
Mickiewicz was a prime representative of the Polish Romantic period, he is one of that
country's Three Bards and the greatest poet in all Polish literature.
He is also considered one of the greatest Slavic and European poets.
He is known primarily as the author of the poetic novel Dziady and national epic Pan Tadeusz,
which is considered the last great epic of Polish-Lithuanian noble culture.
Mickiewicz's other influential works include Konrad Wallenrod and Grażyna.
All served as inspiration during regional uprisings.
Mickiewicz was active in the struggle to achieve independence for his homeland,
then part of the Russian Empire. He left the Empire in 1829 and spent the rest
of his life in other countries, like many of his compatriots.
In Paris he became professor of Slavic literature at the Collège de France.
He died, probably of cholera, at Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire,
where he had gone to help organize
Dutch version of Pan Tadeusz
Polish forces to fight against Russia in the Crimean War. His remains rest in the WawelCathedral in Cracow.
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Polonica stamps:
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Belarus 1998, 20 V Belarus 1999, 20 I Bulgaria 1955, 31 X |
Czechoslovakia 1955, 27 X Lithuania 1998, 24 XII Lithuania 2007, 12 V |
Romania 1955, 17 XII Soviet Union 1955, 22 IV |
