Stanisław Trembecki

Stanisław Trembecki ( born May 8, 1739 Jastrzębniki, † December 12, 1812 in Tulczyn ) was a Polish poet.

Trembicki visited the SzkoĹ Nowodworska in Krakow and was a student of the Latin poet Franciszek Tomecki. He worked in the regional administration, was a member of the regional parliament and inherited an estate of his father. From 1765, he undertook a series of journeys that took him three times to Paris, moreover, to Vienna, Carlsbad and Wrocław. On his second trip to Paris in 1769, he served as an emissary of the Bar Confederation, of his third voyage, he returned with 2,500 books, including Diderot's Encyclopedia, by Poland.

He had since been disowned by his mother, and his attempts to regain the heritage failed. He settled in 1773 in Warsaw and came down for a moderate salary as royal chamberlain in the service of King Stanisław August. The King, he accompanied on trips to Belarus, Lithuania and Ukraine and 1791-92 he traveled to Berlin and Rome. After the abdication of Stanisław August he lived with him in Grodno, and later in St. Petersburg. After the king's death he was assisted by Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, who arranged his financial affairs. He spent his final years on the Stanisław Szczęsny Potocki's possessions in Tulczyn.

Arose in his time in Warsaw as his first works Trembickis political fable Opuchły and Epitalamion Dorantowi i Klimenie. As pamphlets published poems such as Na Refer to siódmy września and Nadgrobek hajduka. With Wojciech Mier and Franciszek Karpiński he translated Jean Racine's Andromache drama, which was listed in 1829 ( under the name Miers ) in Krakow. In his last years emerged as his most important work, the Poem Sofiówka, which was the highest admiration Adam Mickiewicz.