Lucjan Siemieński
Lucyan Hippolit Siemieński (born August 13, 1807 in Kamienna Góra in Galicia , † November 27, 1877 in Krakow ) was a Polish writer .
Life
Siemieński studied oriental languages at the Collegium Richelieu in Odessa from 1828 and took part in the war of freedom of 1831 . Until 1846 he stayed partly in France , partly in Posenchen , and in that year he settled permanently in Krakow , where he founded the newspaper Czas (Die Zeit) , became a member of the Academy of Sciences and one more broadly than deeply going literary activity developed.
As a poet he first made himself known through an excellent translation of the Czech Königinhofer manuscript (Cracow 1836). Among his own poems (first Krakow in 1844, then more often printed) the romance Trąby w Dnieprze deserves a mention; In his Legendy polskie, ruskie i litewskie ( Posen 1845) he strikes the tone of the folk song with great skill. Polish literature also owes its successful translations of the Horazi Odes (Cracow 1869) and the Odyssey (Cracow 1873) to him. He entered the historical area with the brief history of Poland : Wieczory pod lipą ( Evenings under the Linden Tree , Posen 1845), which was one of the most popular books in Poland at the time. Muzamerit (Posen 1843) deserves a mention among his novels . His scattered literary-historical and critical treatises are innumerable; some of them appeared collectively under the title: Portrety literackie (Posen 1865–75, 5 volumes).
Published in German translation
- Stories. Translated from the Polish by Philipp Löbenstein . Leipzig : Reclam , 1877. 208 pages. ( Universal library 918/919.)
- Mimosa. A sentimental story. Translated from Polish by F. von Kleinschmidt . Meran 1914. 24 pages.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Siemiński, Lucian . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 34th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1877, pp. 256–259 ( digitized version ).
- Maria Janion : Lucjan Siemieński, poeta romantyczny . ( Monograph ), Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, Warsaw 1955.
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| SURNAME | Siemieński, Lucjan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Siemieński, Lucyan Hippolit (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 13, 1807 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kamienna Góra , Galicia |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 27, 1877 |
| Place of death | Krakow |