Franciszek Ksawery Dmochowski
Franciszek Ksawery Dmochowski (born December 2, 1762 in Oprawczyki , † June 20, 1808 ) was a Polish writer and translator.
Dmochowski attended the Jesuit and Piarist school in Drohiczyn , later in Podoliniec. After the novitiate he was accepted into the Piarist Order in 1778. He taught in Radom and Warsaw until 1791 , when he became Hugo Kołłątaj's personal assistant and secretary . During the time of the Targowica Confederation he went with this to Dresden, where he was involved in the preparation of the Kościuszko uprising .
In 1794 he organized the proclamation of the uprising by Tadeusz Kościuszko in Cracow and participated in the publication of the magazines Gazeta Wolna Warszawska and Gazeta Rządowa . After the defeat of the Kościuszko uprising, Dmochowski emigrated to Venice and later to Paris. In 1799 he returned to Warsaw and, after converting to Protestantism, married Izabela Mikorowska . Her son was the writer Franciszek Salezy Dmochowski . In 1806 he bought an estate in Kujawy . In 1808 he died on a trip from Warsaw there.
Dmochowski's best-known work was Sztuka rymotwórcza (The Art of Rhyming), an adaptation of Nicolas Boileau's L'art poétique . He also wrote celebratory poems, pamphlets and political pamphlets and created the first complete translation of the Iliad into Polish. He also translated parts of the Odyssey and the Aeneid , works by Horace and Lucan and John Milton's Paradise Lost .
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dmochowski, Franciszek Ksawery |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish writer and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 2, 1762 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oprawczyki |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 20, 1808 |