Franciszek Karpiński

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Franciszek Karpiński 1804

Franciszek Karpiński (born October 4, 1741 in Hołosków , Poland-Lithuania , † September 16, 1825 in Chorowszczyzna , Russian Empire ) was a Polish poet and playwright.

Karpiński attended the Jesuit College in Stanisławów from 1750 to 1758 . He graduated from the University of Lviv in 1765 as a baccalaureate in theology and a doctorate in philosophy. After graduating, he traveled to Vienna for a year, where he improved his foreign language skills and attended biology lectures.

After his return, Karpiński lived as a landowner in the country and wrote religious, patriotic, but above all love poems. His first volume of poetry, Zabawki wierszem , which he dedicated to Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski , earned him an invitation to Warsaw. Here he got to know the poets around the Czartoryski family , and his stay in Warsaw contributed greatly to his fame as a poet. The next three volumes of his Zabawki wierszem i prozą were created here in quick succession , which in addition to poems, theoretical writings on sentimental poetry and translations of works by Jacques Delilles (Gardens) , William Chambers ' (A Letter about Chinese Gardens) and Pliny the Elder ( Letter about the gardens of the ancient Romans) . In another of the seven volumes published by 1787, he also published a translation of the Book of Psalms .

In the later years he lived again as a landowner in the country and worked as an educator for noble families. He became a member of the Warsaw Society of Friends of Science , but always turned down all honorary positions offered. Towards the end of his life he bought a piece of land in Chorowszczyzna.

In addition to his poems, Karpiński also wrote Idylle (Laura i Filon) , a drama and a comedy, and memoirs that appeared posthumously in 1844. His religious poems (Pieśni nabożne) are also of lasting importance . Adam Mickiewicz compared Karpiński with Goethe in his Paris lectures on Slavic literature .

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SURNAME Karpiński, Franciszek
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1741
PLACE OF BIRTH Hołosków
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1825
Place of death Chorowszczyzna