Seweryn Goszczyński
Seweryn Goszczyński (* 1803 in Ilińce , † February 25, 1876 in Lemberg ) was a Polish poet.
Seweryn Goszczyński, son of an economic clerk , attended the Humań High School , where he became friends with Józef Bohdan Zaleski , and received his higher education from 1820 on at the University of Warsaw .
His first larger poem: Zamek Kaniowski ( The Castle of Kaniów , Warsaw 1828), a gloomy poetic tale based on folk tradition in Byronian style, which deals with the terrible uprising in Ukraine of 1768 and paints Cossack life with great vividness the stamp of an original poet's spirit in itself.
Goszczyński participated in the political conspiracies and was among those who attacked the Grand Duke Constantine on November 29, 1830 in the Belvedere in Warsaw . He then joined the Polish army, enthused the same with his fiery fatherland songs and attended various meetings.
After the fall of Warsaw, he fled to Galicia, later to France and then went to Switzerland, where he took up residence in Lenzburg in Aargau. Here and in France he wrote several successful stories in prose, as Oda , Straszny Strzelec and Król zamczyska , glorified the Midsummer celebrations in the Carpathians in his masterpiece Sobótka , translated the Ossian and gave revolutionary songs under the title: Trzy struny (Strasbourg 1839, 3 vols .) all breathing the former passionate spirit.
Later an ardent follower of the mystical-religious sect Andrzej Towiańskis , he spent the last years of his life in Lviv, where he died on February 25, 1876. His last major poetry was the Posłanie do Polski ( Epistle to Poland ) published in 1871 .
Goszczyński belonged with Antoni Malczewski , Józef Bohdan Zaleski and the critic Michał Grabowski to the heads of the so-called Ukrainian school, which designed the romantic motifs in a peculiar way. The latest edition of all of his Poezye appeared in two volumes (Leipz. 1875).
literature
- Goszczyński Seweryn. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 36.
- Flat share: On the Polish Parnassus († Severin Goszczynski). In: Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, March 12, 1876, pp. 1–2 (online at ANNO ).
- J. Rosnowska: Goszczyński. Opowieść biograficzna. Warsaw 1977
- H. Krukowska: Noc romantyczna (Mickiewicz, Malczewski, Goszczyński). Interpretacje. Białystok 1985
Web links
- Biography of Seweryn Goszczyński in Virtual Library of Polish Literature (Engl., Polish.)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Goszczyński, Seweryn |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1803 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ilińce |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 25, 1876 |
| Place of death | Lviv |