Józef Bohdan Zaleski
Józef Bohdan Zaleski (born February 14, 1802 in Bohaterka, Ukraine , Russian Empire ; † March 31, 1886 in Villepreux ) was a Polish poet.
Life
As the youngest of thirteen children, Zaleski grew up with an aunt near Kaniów and from 1812 attended the high school in Humań . Here he met the later poet Seweryn Goszczyński and (1818) the critic Michał Grabowski know. In 1820 he went to Warsaw with Goszczyński to study at the university. Instead, they joined a secret patriotic organization. Zaleski then worked as a tutor for Colonel Antonio Gorecki and from 1824 for the Szembek family in Płock . During this time he was promoted as a poet by Kazimierz Brodziński .
During the November uprising 1830–1831 he was adjutant to General Peter von Szembek and took part in the battles of Dobre, Sochaczew and Grochów. In 1831 he was elected as a representative of the Taraszczyn district and immediately became secretary to the mayor of Warsaw. At the same time he was editor of Nowa Polska magazine . In 1831 he was a member of General Hieronim Ramonino's corps. Then he traveled with Stanisław Worcell to Lviv , where he met the poet Wacław Michał Zaleski , and via Kraków and the Tatras to France.
In Paris, Zaleski was active in the political Polish émigré scene. He became a friend of Adam Mickiewicz , was a founding member of Towarzystwo Braci Zjednoczonych ("Union of United Brothers") in 1834 and with Mickiewicz and Albert Kazimirski de Biberstein of the "Slavic League " ( Towarzystwo słowiańskie ) of Paris. From 1835 to 1837 he was a member of the Towarzystwo Demokratyczne Polskie and then the Towarzystwo Demokratieyczne . In 1837 he settled in Fontainebleau with Major Józef Zaleski, whom he knew from Lemberg, and traveled with him through France and Italy to Jerusalem. From 1843 to 1845 Zaleski retired to a Trappist monastery in Alsace.
In 1846 he married Zofia Rosengardt, a student of Frédéric Chopin . In 1848 he traveled as a delegate to a Slavic congress in Prague, which, however, was dissolved by the Austrian government before his arrival. In the following years he lived alternately in Paris and Fontainebleau and was involved in the board of the Polish school in Paris' Quartier des Batignolles . After the death of Major Zaleski and his wife in 1868, he moved to live with his daughter in Villepreux, where he died eighteen years later, now completely blind.
As a romantic poet, Zaleski saw himself in the tradition of the legendary bard Bojan. Many of his poems were known as songs in Poland in the 19th century. Mickiewicz dedicated the poem Do B ... Z to him .
literature
- Franciszek German: Zofia i Józef Bohdan Zalescy a Fryderyk Chopin. In: Rocznik Chopinowski , Volume 15 (1983), pp. 46–49 (Memories of Chopin)
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zaleski, Józef Bohdan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 14, 1802 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bohaterka |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 31, 1886 |
| Place of death | Villepreux |