Tomasz Zan
Tomasz Zan (born December 21, 1796 in Miasota near Minsk , Belarus ; † July 19, 1855 in Kochaczyn near Orscha , Belarus) was a Polish poet .
Zan attended the Minsk grammar school from 1805 to 1812. During his studies at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at the University of Vilnius (1815-1820) he was one of the founders of the illegal Polish organization of Philomaths in 1817 . He belonged to other associations of this kind such as the Philaretes and the (legal) celebrities . The close friend of the Polish national poet Adam Mickiewicz was sentenced in 1824 in a spectacular trial by the Russian authorities for conspiracy to one year imprisonment and subsequent lifelong banishment. In the following thirteen years he worked in the Urals as a geologist and mineralogist . After his pardon, he worked at the Mining Institute in Saint Petersburg until 1841 , before returning to his homeland.
As a poet, Zan wrote a number of elegies, poems, satirical verses and humorous novels in the tradition of Laurence Sterne . A diary from 1824 to 1832 was published posthumously.
The poet Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna (1892–1983) was a natural and the Polish resistance fighter Teresa Zan (1884–1945) was a granddaughter by marriage.
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| SURNAME | Zan, Tomasz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 21, 1796 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Miasota near Minsk , now Belarus |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 19, 1855 |
| Place of death | Kochaczyn near Orsha , today Belarus |