Teofil Lenartowicz

Teofil Aleksander Lenartowicz ( born February 27, 1822 in Warsaw, † February 3, 1893 in Florence) was a Polish poet.

Teofil Lenartowicz (pronounced Lenartówitsch ) usually formed by self-study, worked for a time as an intern at the Warsaw Regional Court, but went abroad in 1848, where he settled in 1851 in Paris, later in Rome and finally in Florence.

Lenartowicz was a folk singer, whose songs published under the title Lirenka Theofila Lenartowicza, seem by simple beauty of form and content and are among the finest pearls of Polish poetry.

Among his major seals are the most notable:

• The enthusiasm
• Kościuszko
• The Holy Sophia
• The Polish countryside in pictures
• The Battle of Raclawice
• The Gladiator etc.

Next he published a tape letters about Adam Mickiewicz (Paris 1875). The wife of the poet was the painter and sculptor Zofia Szymanowska.