Seweryn Goszczyński

Seweryn Goszczyński (* 1803 in Ilince, † February 25, 1876 in Lviv ) was a Polish poet.

Seweryn Goszczyński, son of an economic officials, the school attended to human, where he befriended Józef Bohdan Zaleski, and received his higher education from 1820 to the University of Warsaw.

His first major poem: Zamek Kaniowski ( The Castle of Kaniów, Warsaw 1828), a dark, based on folk tradition of poetic narrative in Byronscher manner, which has the terrible uprising in Ukraine from 1768 to the object and the Cossack life painted with great vividness bears, the stamp of an original poet mind itself.

Goszczyński participated in the political conspiracy and was among those who the Grand Duke Constantine raided on 29 November 1830, Warsaw Belvedere. He joined thereto in the Polish army a rave the same by his fiery patriotic songs and lived at various meetings.

After the fall of Warsaw he fled to Galicia, later to France and then went to Switzerland, where he took up his residence in Lenzburg in the Canton of Aargau. Here and in France he wrote in prose several successful stories, as Oda, Straszny Strzelec and Król zamczyska, glorified in his masterpiece Sobotka Midsummer celebration in the Carpathians, translated Ossian and gave revolutionary songs under the title: Trzy struny (Strasbourg 1839, 3 vols. ) out, breathe all the earlier passionate spirit.

Later, a devotee of mystical religious sect Andrzej Towiańskis, he spent his last years in Lviv, where he died on 25 February 1876. His last major poetry was published in 1871 Posłanie do Polski ( letters to Poland).

Goszczyński belonged with Antoni Malczewski, Józef Bohdan Zaleski and the critics Michał Grabowski to the heads of the so-called Ukrainian school, which the romantic motives peculiarly designed. The latest edition of his complete Poezye appeared in two volumes ( Leipz. 1875).