Władysław Syrokomla

Władysław Syrokomla, actually Władysław Franciszek Ludwik Kondratowicz ( born September 29, 1823 in Smolgawo in present-day Belarus, † September 15, 1862 in Borejkowszczyzna in Vilnius in modern Lithuania ) was a Lithuanian- Polish nobleman, an important translator and poet of Polish language in the Russian Empire.

Life

He was born in a small village south of Minsk in Belarus today in an impoverished noble family of the Polish szlachta. His parents were Alexander Cajetan Kondratowicz and Victoria (nee Złotkowska ). Between 1833 and 1837 he attended prestigious schools in Nyasvizh and Nawahradak, but had to quit his studies due to financial problems. Instead, he took a job as a clerk in the princely Radziwill basic administration. On April 16, 1844, he married in Nyasvizh Paulina Mitraszewska, with whom he had four children. In the same year he leased the estate Załucze the Niemen ( Memel ) where he lived with his family until 1853. This year he became the tenant of the location near the Lithuanian capital Vilnius Good Borejkowszczyzna today. At the same time he started for the largest Polish language newspaper of the city, to write the Vilna courier. He campaigned for the abolition of serfdom in the Russian empire and the detachment of the Polish-Lithuanian territories from the Tsarist empire. His participation in anti-Russian demonstrations in 1861 led to the arrest by the Okhrana, the Russian secret police. He was sentenced to house arrest at his estate Borejkowszczyzna, where he died in September of this year. He was buried in the cemetery in Rasu WillNa.

Work

Kondratowicz a poet was filled with the fire of genuine enthusiasm and deep, sincere feeling, at the same time from an unusual simplicity of expression. Among his numerous, held in Folk poetic narratives ( Gawędy ) are emphasized: " Urodzony January Dęboróg " (" The well- born Johann Dęboróg ," 1854), " Janko Cmentarnik " ( 1856), " Nocleg Hetmański " (" The Bivouac of the hetman ", 1857), and " Zgon Acerna " ( 1856) on the death of Sebastian Fabian Klonowic 'whose gloomy fates were a mirror image of his own. Less successful, he tried to dramatic territory (" Kasper Karlinski " and others). Kondratowicz also provided a history of Polish literature (" Dzieje literatury w Polsce " 2nd edition. Warsaw 1875, 3 vols. ) And an admirable metrical translation of the Polish- Latin poet Janicki, Sarbiewski, Szymonowicz, Klonowicz and others ( 1852 Vilnius, 6 ribbons. ). A complete edition of his poems appeared in 10 volumes (Warsaw 1872). His biography wrote II Kraszewski (Warsaw 1863). His original work is dominated by his translations from Latin, French, German, Russian and Ukrainian, including works by Beranger, Goethe, Heine, Lermontov, Nekrasov and Shevchenko.

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