Alojzy Feliński

Alojzy Feliński (* 1771 in Luck, † February 23, 1820 in Krzemieniec ) was a Polish writer.

Feliński was educated by the Piaristen in Dąbrownica and Włodzimierz. He went in 1788 to Lublin, where he was in contact with Cajetan Koźmian, and in 1789 a member of the Four Years' Sejm in Warsaw. Here he learned many contemporary writers in the circle of Jacek Małachowski know.

During the Kościuszko Uprising he was Tadeusz Kościuszko's secretary for French correspondence and Commissioner in the region Wołyń. After the defeat of the uprising, he returned to his hometown and devoted himself to the management of its heritage. In 1809 he became a member of the Society of Friends of Science. From 1815 he lived again in Warsaw. Here emerged as his most important work, the classical tragedy Barbara Radziwiłłówna, which was premiered in 1817. For some notoriety it brought his Hymn in honor of Tsar Alexander I, which appeared in the Gazeta Warszawska 1816. It was sung at religious and patriotic celebrations and in different text versions eventually spread further than Boże, coś Polskę the national anthem of Poland. 1818 went Feliński a professor at the Lyceum after Krzemieniec. In the following year he was awarded an honorary member of the University of Vilnius.

Source

• Wirtualna Biblioteka Literatury Polskiej - Alojzy Feliński

• Man
• Born in 1771
• Died in 1820
• Author
• Drama
• Poetry
• Literature ( Polish)