Jozef Baka

Józef Baka (born March 18, 1707 - June 2, 1780 in Warsaw ) was a Polish poet, theologian and missionary.

Baka entered the Jesuit order and studied at the Academy in Vilnius, where he later taught rhetoric. He worked in Lithuania and Belarus for 20 years and founded the mission society Missio Bakana . In 1774 the Vilnius Academy awarded him the degree of Doctor of Theology. At the end of his life he lived in Vilnius in the so-called professors' house of the Church of St Kazimierz, where he preached as a representative of the Society of Good Death.

In 1776 he published two volumes of sermons and meditations in Vilnius under the title Uwagi rzeczy ostatecznych i złości grzechowej ("Considerations on the last things and the sin of anger") and Uwagi śmierci niechybnej ("Considerations on inevitable death"). In baroque fashion he dealt with the fact of human mortality in drastic language, using a popular and sometimes crude language. His Uwagi served as inspiration for later authors such as Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz , Miron Białoszewski , Stanisław Grochowiak , Jerzy Harasymowicz and Jan Twardowski . In 1990 a poetry prize was founded under his name.

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SURNAME	Baka, Jozef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Polish poet, preacher and Jesuit
DATE OF BIRTH	March 18, 1707
DATE OF DEATH	June 2, 1780
Place of death	Warsaw