Walenty Roździeński
Walenty Roździeński (* around 1570 in Roździeń , today in the Katowice district of Szopienice - Burowiec ; † 1641 there ; some sources mention 1560 and 1622 as the date of birth and death) was a Silesian master blacksmith , administrator of ironworks and writer .
life and work
Roździeński was the son of Jakub Bruska (or Brusiek), who originally came from the village of Brusiek near Koschentin and was the owner of a tavern in Roździeń, his mother, however, came from a Bogutschütz family of blacksmiths that had been associated with the blacksmithing and iron foundry trade for generations Blacksmiths in Roździeń belonged to. After Walenty took over this, he changed his family name to Roździeński. In 1595 he got into conflict with Katarzyna Salomon, a large landowner from Myslowitz , because of the blacksmith's shop and was even sentenced to prison after a lost property process. However, thanks to the help of his patron Andreas Freiherr von Kochtizky , owner of several iron foundries and blacksmiths, he was spared this. Roździeński had to flee to Krakow , where he wrote Officina ferraria, abo huta y warstat z kuźniami szlachetnego dzieła żelaznego ( Officina ferraria, or an ironworks and blacksmith's workshop of the noble ironworks ) and published it in the Szymon Kempin printing house in 1612. It was the first literary work of its kind in Polish . The concept combines practical, craft- related information with rhyme form . In this work Roździeński described the history of the iron trade as well as the way of working and living of Silesian miners, iron foundries and blacksmiths of his time. After the death of his antagonist (Salomon) in 1614, he returned to Silesia , where he again took over the large smithy together with his brother. He died in Roździeń in 1641.
His work Officina Ferraria was lost for over 300 years and it was not until 1929 that a surviving copy from 1612 was found by chance in Gniezno . Since then it has been published several times in Polish and in 1976 (thanks to Prof. Jerzy Piaskowski) also in English.
literature
- Adam W. Jarosz: Walenty Roździeński. Poeta i hutnik ze Śląska. ISBN 83-86168-37-4
- Stefan Pluszczewski (English translation): Officina ferraria. Cambridge, 1976, ISBN 0-262-18079-0
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Roździeński, Walenty |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brusiek, Walenty |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Silesian master blacksmith , manager of the iron and steel works, and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1570 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Roździeń , today Szopienice - Burowiec |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1641 |
| Place of death | Roździeń , today Szopienice - Burowiec |