Sebastian Fabian Klonowic
Sebastian Fabian Klonowic (also Klonowicz ), called Acernus (* around 1545 in Sulmierzyce , Powiat Poznański , Poland; † August 29, 1602 in Lublin ) was a Polish writer and poet .
Klonowic, with the nickname Acernus (Polish: klon = German maple, Latin Acer), obtained his doctorate at the University of Krakow and came to Lemberg in 1576 . In 1580 he went to Lublin and became a councilor and 1600 mayor. Because of his ruthless uprightness he attracted many enemies, and because of his inclination to the Reformation he was persecuted by the clergy. He wrote in Polish and Latin.
In 1862 a monument was erected to him in Sulmierzyce. In his great Latin poem Victoria deorum , a rhyming Philippica against the nobility , Klonowic developed his political-social concepts about the true nobility; in the Judas bag Klonowic he brands the various kinds of unscrupulous acquisition, hypocrisy, violence of the great, etc.
The epic-didactic poem Flis ("raft creatures") appeared as the fruit of a trip to Danzig . During his stay in Lviv he sang the natural beauties and wealth of Red Russia in the Latin poetry Roxolania .
He composed Thirteen Lamentations for the death of Jan Kochanowski . Klonowic's poems were collected in the Biblioteka polska (Cracow 1858). Mierzynski (Berlin 1857) wrote a good Latin biography of Klonowic.
literature
- Antoni Julian Mierzyński: De vita moribus scriptisque Latinis Sebastiani Fabiani Acerni . Berlin, Phil. Diss. 1857.
Web links
- Literature by Sebastian Fabian Klonowic in the catalog of the Berlin State Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klonowic, Sebastian Fabian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Klonowicz, Sebastian Fabian; Acernus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish satirist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1545 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sulmierzyce |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 29, 1602 |
| Place of death | Lublin |