Henryk Rzewuski

Henryk Rzewuski ( May 3, 1791 in Slawuta, † February 28, 1866 in Cudnów ) was a Polish writer.

Rzewuski attended a boarding school in the Carmelite Berdyczów and Education Institute in St. Petersburg and Krakow. After the founding of the Grand Duchy of Warsaw, he joined the army and reached the Austro- Prussian War of 1809 to the rank of lieutenant. He traveled in Switzerland, Germany, France, Italy, England and Turkey, and visited during his stay in Paris 1819-22, inter alia, Lectures by Victor Cousin. In 1825 he accompanied Adam Mickiewicz on his Krimreise.

From 1840 he worked for the Tygodnik Petersburski and was head of the "Petersburg coterie ", a conservative grouping around the Tygodnik that emphasized her commitment to Catholicism and loyalty to Russia. After his debut work Pamiątki Soplicy, which appeared in 1839-1841 in Paris and the French, Russian, Serbo-Croatian and German ( Memoirs of the Lord Soplica, 1876) and secured with he himself a lasting place in the Polish literary history, called the Mieszaniny obyczajowe Jarosza Bejły ( 1841-43 ) as a " program of betrayal " ( violent to Poland ) critique that. When he Secretary of the Governor Ivan Paskiewicz in 1850, suggested the rejection in open hate to - Rzewuski was denounced as reactionary Jacobin traitor and collaborator, Zygmunt Krasinski wrote that he had a "soul of mud ."

1845-1846 he published his three-volume novel Listopad, a picture of Polish society, which was, Russian and English translated into Czech, German. Were also successful later works such as Zamek krakowski ( 1847-48 ), Teofrast polski ( 1851) and Zaporożec (1854 ).

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• Wirtualna Biblioteka Literatury Polskiej - Henryk Rzewuski

• Man
• Born in 1791
• Died in 1866
• Author
• Novel, epic
• Literature ( Polish)