Edward Żeligowski

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Memorial plaque to the friendship between Taras Shevchenko and Edward Żeligowski

Edward Witold Żeligowski ( Russian Эдуард Желиговский Eduard Scheligowski , pseudonym Антоний Сова Antoni Sowa ; born July 8 . Jul / 20th July  1816 greg. In Mariampol , Vilna Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 28 December 1864 in Geneva , Switzerland ) was a Polish and Lithuanian poet, philosopher and translator.

Life

Edward Żeligowski came to Mariampol, another source, on November 22nd, July 1816 . / 4th December  1815 greg. in the village of Koreikovtsy ( Корейковцы ). His father was Julian Scheligowski ( Юлиан Желиговский ), his mother the daughter of the chairman of the Minsk criminal chamber. He studied at Dorpat University between 1833 and 1836 and became one of the leaders of the radical democratic youth movement. As a result of participating in the preparation of an uprising led by Szymon Konarski , he was arrested in 1838 and interned until 1842. After he was arrested again in 1851, he was exiled first to Petrozavodsk and then to Orenburg . At the same time, the Ukrainian national poet Taras Shevchenko lived there in exile, with whom he became friends and remained in contact even after his return from exile. He dedicated his poem "The People's Poet" to him . From 1858 he lived in Saint Petersburg , where he supported Iossafat Petrovich Ogrysko ( Russian Иосафат Петрович Огрызко ; 1826-1890) in the publication of the newspaper "Slovo". Finally he emigrated to Western Europe in 1860 and worked as an employee of the Polish émigré press. He spent the last years of his life in Geneva, where he died in 1864.

plant

Żeligowski translated the works of Pushkin and Heinrich Heine into the Polish language.

  • Jordan (1846)
  • Poezje Antoniego Sowy (1858)
  • Dziś i wczoraj (1858)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. entry to Scheligowski Eduard in Brockhaus and Efron ; accessed on June 5, 2019 (Russian)
  2. a b Entry on Edward Żeligowski in encyklopedia.pwn ; accessed on June 5, 2019 (Polish)
  3. Under the pseudonym Antony Sova February 12, 2016; accessed on June 5, 2019 (Russian)
  4. https://ua-kobzar.livejournal.com/511669.html ; accessed on June 5, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  5. a b c biography of Eduard Scheligowski on cultin.ru ; accessed on June 5, 2019 (Russian)