Andrzej Trzecieski

Andrzej Trzecieski ( Andrzej Trzycieski , Andreas Tricesius or Trecesius ; * around 1525 or 1530 probably in Krakow ; † around 1584 ) was a Polish poet.

Little is known for sure about the life of Trzecieski. It is not known what training he completed in Poland, at least he was matriculated at the University of Wittenberg in 1544 . He knew many of the Reformations and took part in Protestant synods. For several years he was in the service of Prince Mikołaj Radziwiłł Czarny . From 1557 he was courtier to King Zygmunt August , and in 1558 he was secretary to Henryk Walezy . He often stayed at Stefan Batory's court . Trzecieski was friends with important contemporaries such as Jan Kochanowski , Mikołaj Rej , Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski and Stanisław Orzechowski , in his later years he was also in contact with representatives of Catholicism such as Piotr Roizjusz and Jan Dymitr Solikowski , who later became the Archbishop of Lemberg .

Trzecieski wrote elegies, epigrams, epitaphs, epices, epithalamies and humorous poems as well as De Sancrosancti Evangelii in ditione Regis Poloniae [...] origine, progressu et incremento elegia, a learned history of the Reformation in Latin. Several of his Polish-language poems, such as Modlitwa albo pieśń, gdy rano dziatki wstaną and Modlitwa, gdy dziatki spać idą , were set to music by Wacław z Szamotuł and were included in the anthems of Piotr Artomiusz , Krzysztof Kraiński , Jan Seklucbajan and Jan Zarembajan . Trzecieski is also credited with the biography Żywot i sprawy poćciwego ślachcica polskiego Mikołaja Reja z Nagłowic . It would be the first pastiche in Polish. Since the style of Mikołaj Rej is met so precisely, it is also assumed that he himself could be the author of the (in this case autobiographical) work.

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SURNAME	Trzecieski, Andrzej
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Trzycieski, Andrzej; Trecesius, Andreas; Tricesius, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Polish poet
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1530
DATE OF DEATH	around 1584