Gustaw Zieliński

Gustaw Zieliński (born January 1, 1809 in Markowice , † November 23, 1881 in Skępe ) was a Polish writer .

Zieliński was the son of a general in Tadeusz Kościuszko's army . He attended the Piarist School in Warsaw and the Provincial School in Płock and studied law at the University of Warsaw from 1827 to 1830 . He took part in the November Uprising as a private and was promoted to officer after the Battle of Warsaw. He went to Prussia with the army of General Maciej Rybiński .

Gustaw Zieliński, 1860r.

After an amnesty he returned to Poland and leased a farm in Kierż. Here he began his literary activity. Because of his contacts with Adam Zawisza's partisan troops , he was arrested and deported to Tobolsk and later to Iszym. In 1842 he returned to Poland and took over the administration of his and his uncle's estates. He joined the literary circle in Warsaw and in 1848 was editor of the Biblioteka Warszawska .

With Ludwik Norwid he went on a trip to Paris and Italy in 1847. In 1858 he became a member of the Towarzystwo Rolnicze (Agricultural Society ). During the January uprising 1863-64, which he rejected, he left Poland. Then he built up a valuable book collection, which formed the basis of the library of Towarzystwo Naukowe w Toruniu . In 1879 he visited Teofil Lenartowicz in Florence.

Zieliński has written articles for the Organ Fire Encyclopedia and the Agriculture Encyclopedia. His most important literary work is the poem Kirgiz . It appeared in 1842 and has been translated into Russian, German, Czech, Italian, English and Kazakh. Further works are Samobójca (1835), Stepy (1856), the play Czarnoksiężnik Twardowski (1856) and the posthumously published novel Manuela in 1910 .

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SURNAME	Zieliński, Gustaw
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Polish writer
DATE OF BIRTH	January 1, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH	Markowice (Strzelno)
DATE OF DEATH	November 23, 1881
Place of death	Skępe