Sebastian Klonowic

Sebastian Fabian Klonowic (also Klonowicz ) called Acernus (* 1545 in Sulmierzyce, powiat Poznański, Poland, † August 29, 1602 in Lublin ) was a Polish writer and poet.

Klonowic, surnamed Acernus (Polish klon = German maple, Latin Acer), obtained at the Cracow University doctoral degrees in 1576 and came to Lviv. In 1580 he went to Lublin, where he was alderman and mayor in 1600. Through his ruthless uprightness he withdrew many enemies, and because of its inclination to the Reformation, he was persecuted by the clergy. He wrote in Polish and Latin.

1862 was built in Sulmierzyce him a monument. In his great Latin poetry Victoria deorum, a rhyming diatribe against the nobility, Klonowic developed his political and social concepts about the true nobility; in the Judas bag Klonowic he brands the different types unscrupulous acquisition, hypocrisy, and violence of the Great etc.

As a fruit of a trip to Gdansk, the epic and didactic poetry Flis ( " raft beings " ) appeared. During his stay in Lviv, he sang in Latin poetry Roxolania the natural beauty and richness Rotrusslands.

On the death of Jan Kochanowski he wrote Thirteen Lamentations. Collected published the poems Klonowics in the Biblioteka polska ( Krakow 1858). A good biography of Latin Klonowic wrote Mierzynski (Berlin 1857).