Wincenty Pol
Wincenty Pol (German Vinzenz Xaver Ferrarius Poll ) (born April 20, 1807 in Lublin , † December 2, 1872 in Krakow ) was a Polish writer, geographer and ethnographer.
Life
Wincenty Pol was born as the son of the German Franz Xaver Poll von Pollenburg and the French-born Eleonore Longchamps de Berier. He attended the grammar school in Lemberg and the Jesuit college in Tarnopol . From 1824 to 1827 he studied philosophy at the University of Lemberg . From 1828 he taught German at the University of Wilna . Here he published a first collection of folk songs under the title Pieśni gminne .
The November uprising of 1830 ended Pol's academic career. He participated in the uprising as a lieutenant in the regiment of the Lithuanian Uhlans and was awarded the Virtuti Militari order . After the collapse of the uprising in Lithuania , Pol emigrated and lived in Leipzig , Königsberg and Dresden , where he met Adam Mickiewicz and Antoni Edward Odyniec in 1832 . With General Józef Bem he then went to Posen and later to Lemberg.
In the later 1830s, Pol devoted himself to exploring the Tatra Mountains as a geographer and ethnographer . In 1840 he settled in Maryipole near Biecz . Although he continued to campaign for the independence of Poland, he did not take part in the Cracow uprising in 1846. While fleeing the unrest in Galicia , he was attacked and wounded by farmers and spent several months in prison in Jasło and Lemberg.
In 1849 Pol became professor of geography at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, where he taught until his dismissal in 1853 (on suspicion of disloyalty to the state). During this time he also undertook research trips to the Tatras and the Beskids . After his release, he stayed with friends and relatives, published publications and lectured in Krakow and Lviv. In 1868 he went blind. He spent the last years of his life in Krakow. In 1870 the Galician Parliament awarded him a life pension. In the year of his death he became a member of the Academy of Sciences in Kraków.
Works
- Folk songs of the Poles. Collected and translated by WP (i.e. Wincenty Pol), Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1833
- Pieśni Janusza , Paris 1833
- Pieśń o ziemi naszej , 1835
- Pamiętniki J. Pana Benedykta Winnickiego , 1853–55
- Mohort , 1854
- Z podróży po burzy , 1866
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Pol, Vincenz . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 23rd part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1872, pp. 49–55 ( digitized version ).
- Georg W. Strobel: The youth and war years of Vinzenz Poll von Pollenburg, called Wincenty Pol. A contribution to the history of German-Polish relations in the 19th century , in: Yearbook of the Albertus University in Königsberg / Pr., Vol. XIII, Holzner, Würzburg 1963.
- Krzysztof Zielnica: Alexander von Humboldt and the Polish naturalists in Galicia . In: Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin yearbook 1981/82 . Quadriga Verlag , 1983, ISBN 3-88679-300-1 , p. 303-329 .
Web links
- Wincenty Pol - ojciec polskiej geografii
- Boleslaw Oleksowicz: "Wincenty Pol" , Virtual Library of Polish Literature
- Bryk.pl - Pol Wincenty
Individual evidence
- ^ German history in Eastern Europe. B.8, p. 534 by Hartmut Boockmann, 1999
- ↑ "ennobled by Emperor Franz in 1815 with the predicate" Poll von Pollenburg "" In: Journal for Slavic Philology. P. 385, 1956
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pol, Wincenty |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish writer, geographer and ethnographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 20, 1807 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lublin |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 2, 1872 |
| Place of death | Krakow |