Franciszek Ksawery Dmochowski

Franciszek Ksawery Dmochowski ( born December 2, 1762 Oprawczyki, † June 20, 1808 ) was a Polish writer and translator.

Dmochowski attended the Jesuit and Piarist in Drohiczyn, later in Podoliniec. After the novitiate, he was inducted into the Piarist 1778. Until 1791, he taught in Radom and Warsaw, he was personal assistant and secretary of Hugo Kołłątaj. During the time of Confederation, Targowica he went with this to Dresden, where he was involved in the preparation of the Kościuszko Uprising.

In 1794 he organized the promulgation of the uprising by Tadeusz Kosciuszko in Krakow and participated in the publication of magazines Volna Gazeta Gazeta Warszawska and Rzadowa. After the defeat of Kościuszko Uprising Dmochowski emigrated to Venice, then to Paris. In 1799 he returned to Warsaw and married after his conversion to Protestantism Izabela Mikorowska. Her son was the writer Franciszek Salezy Dmochowski. In 1806 he bought an estate in Kujawy. In 1808, he died there on a trip from Warsaw.

Dmochowskis most famous work was Sztuka rymotwórcza ( The art of rhyming ), an adaptation of Nicolas Boileau's L'art poétique. He has also written poetry festival, pamphlets and political pamphlets and created the first complete translation of the Iliad into Polish. He also translated parts of the Odyssey and the Aeneid, works of Horace and Lucan and John Milton's Paradise Lost.

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• Author
• Poetry
• Translation (literary )
• Literature ( Polish)
• Pole
• Man
• Born in 1762
• Died in 1808