Alojzy Feliński
Alojzy Feliński (* 1771 in Łuck ; † February 23, 1820 in Krzemieniec ) was a Polish writer.
Feliński was raised by the Piarists in Dąbrownica and Włodzimierz . In 1788 he went to Lublin , where he was in contact with Kajetan Koźmian , and in 1789 became a member of the four-year-old Sejm in Warsaw . Here he met numerous contemporary writers from the circle around Jacek Małachowski .
During the Kościuszko uprising , he was Tadeusz Kościuszkos secretary for French correspondence and commissioner in the Wołyń region . After the defeat of the uprising, he returned to his hometown and devoted himself to managing his inheritance. In 1809 he became a member of the Society of Friends of Science . From 1815 he lived again in Warsaw. It was here that his most important work was the classicist tragedy Barbara Radziwiłłówna , which premiered in 1817. His hymn in honor of Tsar Alexander I , which was published in Gazeta Warszawska in 1816, also achieved some fame . It was sung at religious and patriotic celebrations and, in various text versions, it was more widely used as Boże, coś Polskę, the secret national anthem of the Poles. In 1818 Feliński went to Krzemieniec as a professor at the Lyceum. In the following year he was made an honorary member of the University of Vilnius .
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Feliński, Alojzy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1771 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Łuck |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 23, 1820 |
| Place of death | Krzemieniec |