Waclaw Potocki

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Wacław Potocki (* 1621 in Wola Łużańska , † 1696 in Łużna ) was a Polish Baroque writer.

Potocki came from a Unitarian aristocratic family and was educated at a Unitarian school in Raciborsko near Krakow. He led the life of a country nobleman, administered the goods inherited from his father and occasionally took on public offices, for example as cupbearer in Krakow. After Unitarianism ("Arianism") was banned in 1658, he converted to Catholicism, while his family members remained Unitarians.

Potocki's extensive literary work includes romances, epic and lyrical works, satires and epigrams. Besides Romances on biblical and classical motifs such Judyta , Wirginia , Syloret and Lidia and poetry collections such Pieśni and Periody are his particular Jakub Sobieski Commentariorum Chotinensis belli libri tres BASED epic Transakcyja wojny chocimskiej about the battle Władysław IV. Vasa against the Turks in 1621 in Khotyn and his late work Moralia (based on Erasmus von Rotterdams Adagia ). His contemporaries were only aware of a fraction of his works, most of which did not appear in print until the 19th and 20th centuries.

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SURNAME Potocki, Waclaw
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1621
PLACE OF BIRTH Wola Łużańska
DATE OF DEATH 1696
Place of death Łużna