Adam Asnyk
- Birth Date:
- 11.09.1838
- Death date:
- 02.08.1897
- Length of life:
- 58
- Days since birth:
- 67792
- Years since birth:
- 185
- Days since death:
- 46282
- Years since death:
- 126
- Extra names:
- Adam Asnyk, Jan Stożek, El...y
- Categories:
- Poet, Writer
- Nationality:
- pole
- Cemetery:
- Kraków, Krypta Zasłużonych na Skałce
Adam Asnyk (September 11, 1838 – August 2, 1897), was a Polish poet and dramatist of the Positivist era. Born in Kalisz to a noble szlachta family, he was educated to become an heir of his family's estate. As such he received education at the Institute of Agriculture and Forestry in Marymont and then the Medical Surgeon School in Warsaw. He continued his studies abroad in Breslau, Paris and Heidelberg. In 1862 he returned to Congress Poland and took part in the January Uprising as a freedom fighter against the country's occupation by Russian troops. Because of that he had to flee the Tsarstvo and settled in Heidelberg, where in 1866 he received a doctorate of philosophy. Soon afterwards he returned to Poland and settled in the Austrian-held part of the country, initially in Lwów and then in Kraków.
In 1875 Asnyk married Zofia née Kaczorowska and around that time started his career as a journalist. An editor of a Kraków-based Reforma daily, in 1884 he was also chosen to the city council of Kraków. Five years later he was elected to the Galician Sejm.
Around that time he became one of the most prominent men of culture in partitioned Poland. Among his initiatives was the creation of the Society of Popular Schools and bringing the ashes of Adam Mickiewicz to Poland. He was also among the first members of the Tatra Society. He died August 2, 1897 in Kraków and was buried at the Skałka church, a burial place for some of the most distinguished Poles, particularly those who lived in Kraków.
Books of poetry
- Nad głębiami (Over the Depths) (1883–1894)
- Poezje (Poetries) (1869)
- Poezje (Poetries) (1872)
- Poezje (Poetries) (1880)
- Poezje (Poetries) (1894)
Source: wikipedia.org
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04.07.1890 | W Krypcie Wieszczów Narodowych na Wawelu odbył się ponowny pogrzeb sprowadzonych z Paryża szczątków Adama Mickiewicza
Uroczysty pogrzeb prochów sprowadzonych z Paryża odbył się 4 lipca 1890. Na stopniach katedry wawelskiej prochy poety przywitał Adam Asnyk. W specjalnie przygotowanej krypcie umieszczono sarkofag projektu Sławomira Odrzywolskiego, z popiersiem Mickiewicza w medalionie wyrzeźbionym przez Stanisława Romana Lewandowskiego. W niszy ołtarzowej umieszczono wizerunek Matki Boskiej Ostrobramskiej, patronki Litwy, wykonany w technice mozaikowej w pracowni Antonio Salviatiego w Wenecji.