Józef Baka

Józef Baka (* March 18, 1707, † June 2, 1780 in Warsaw) was a Polish poet, theologian and missionary.

Baka joined the Jesuits and studied at the Academy in Vilnius, where he later taught rhetoric. He worked 20 years in Lithuania and Belarus and founded the Missionary Society of Missiology Bakana. 1774 awarded him the Vilnius Academy of the degree of Doctor of Theology. At the end of his life he lived in Vilnius in so-called Professor house of St Kazimierz Church, where he served as the Company's management to preach the Good Death.

1776, he published two volumes of sermons in Vilnius and meditations under the title Uwagi rzeczy ostatecznych i złości grzechowej ( "Reflections on the Last Things and the sin of Wrath" ) and Uwagi śmierci niechybnej ( "Reflections on the inevitable death "). In baroque style he sat down in dramatic language with the fact of human mortality apart, he used a popular and sometimes crude language. His Uwagi served later authors such as Jaroslaw Marek Rymkiewicz, Miron Bialoszewski, Stanisław Grochowiak Jerzy Harasymowicz and Jan Twardowski as a suggestion. 1990 Poetry Prize was instituted under his name.

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• Author
• Poetry
• Preacher
• Jesuit
• Literature ( Polish)
• Born in 1707
• Died in 1780
• Man