Wladyslaw Syrokomla
Władysław Syrokomla , actually Ludwik Władysław Franciszek Kondratowicz (born September 29, 1823 in Smolgawo in what is now Belarus; † September 15, 1862 in Borejkowszczyzna near Vilna in today's Lithuania) was a Lithuanian-Polish nobleman, important translator and poet of the Polish language in the Russian Empire.
Life
He was born in a small village south of Minsk in what is now Belarus into an impoverished aristocratic family of the Polish Szlachta . His parents were Alexander Kajetan Kondratowicz and Viktoria (née Złotkowska). Between 1833 and 1837 he attended prestigious schools in Nyasvish and Nawahradak , but had to break off his studies due to financial problems. Instead, he took a job as an employee in the princely Radziwiłłschen basic administration. On April 16, 1844, he married Paulina Mitraszewska in Nyaswisch , with whom he had four children. In the same year he leased the Załucze estate on the Niemen (Memel) where he lived with his family until 1853. In that year he switched to the Borejkowszczyzna estate, which is located near today's Lithuanian capital Wilna , as a tenant . At the same time he began writing for the city's largest Polish-language newspaper, the Vilnius Courier . Here he campaigned for the liberation of the peasants in the Russian empire and the detachment of the Polish-Lithuanian territories from the tsarist empire. His participation in anti-Russian demonstrations in 1861 led to his arrest by the Ochrana , the Russian secret police. He was placed under house arrest at his Borejkowszczyzna estate, where he died in September of that year. He was buried in the Rasu cemetery in Willna.
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Kondratowicz was a poet with a fire of genuine enthusiasm and deep, sincere feeling, at the same time with an unusual simplicity of expression. Among his numerous poetic tales (Gawędy), which are kept in folk style, the following should be emphasized: »Urodzony Jan Dęboróg« (»The well-born Johann Dęboróg«, 1854), »Janko Cmentarnik« (1856), »Nocleg hetmański« (»The hetman's night camp« , 1857), and "Zgon Acerna" (1856) on the death of Sebastian Fabian Klonowic , whose gloomy life stories mirrored his own. He tried less successfully in the dramatic field (»Kasper Karliński« etc.). Kondratowicz also provided a history of Polish literature ("Dzieje literatury w Polsce" 2nd edition. Warsaw 1875, 3 volumes.) As well as an excellent metric translation by the Polish-Latin poets Janicki, Sarbiewski, Szymonowicz, Klonowicz and others (Wilna 1852, 6 volumes .). A complete edition of his poems appeared in 10 volumes (Warsaw 1872). His biography was written by II Kraszewski (Warsaw 1863). His original work is dominated by his translations from Latin, French, German, Russian and Ukrainian, including works by Béranger, Goethe, Heine, Lermontow, Nekrasow and Shevchenko.
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| SURNAME | Syrokomla, Wladyslaw |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kondratowicz, Władysław |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish-Lithuanian-Belarusian writer in Polish |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 29, 1823 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Smolgawo, Belarus |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 15, 1862 |
| Place of death | Borejkowszczyzna near Vilna |