Józef Bohdan Zaleski
- Birth Date:
- 14.02.1802
- Death date:
- 31.03.1886
- Length of life:
- 84
- Days since birth:
- 81158
- Years since birth:
- 222
- Days since death:
- 50432
- Years since death:
- 138
- Extra names:
- Józef Bohdan Zaleski
- Categories:
- Independece fighter, Poet
- Nationality:
- pole
- Cemetery:
- Paris, Cimetière de Montmartre
Józef Bohdan Zaleski (Bohatyrka, Kiev guberniya, February 14, 1802 – March 31, 1886, Villepreux, near Paris) was a Polish Romantic poet. A friend of Adam Mickiewicz, Zaleski founded the "Ukrainian poetic school."
Zaleski was a member of the secret patriotic organisation Związek Wolnych Polaków (1821); a participant of the November Uprising (1830–1831); a deputy of the Sejm (during the November Uprising 1830–1831); the co-founder (with Mickiewicz) of the religious brotherhood Towarzystwo Braci Zjednoczonych; and co-editor of a magazine, Nowa Polska.
Works
Zaleski was associated with Romanticism and sentimentalism. He was the author of popular historical dumas (in which he refers to Ukrainian folklore); love and reflective lyrics inspired by folk poetry; religious poetry; as well as fantasy poems, sung poems, aphoristic poems, memoirs, translations (Serbian folk songs). Three of his songs were set to music by Frédéric Chopin (see Polish songs by Frédéric Chopin).
Dumas
- Dumka hetmana Kosińskiego (Dumka of Hetman Kosiński, 1823)
- Dumka Mazepy (Mazepa's Dumka)
- Czajki
Poems and lyrics
- Duch od stepu (The Spirit from the Steppe, 1841 poem)
- Jamby (Iambs), aphoristic poem
- Przenajświętsza Rodzina (The Most Holy Family, 1839; published in Poezje [Poems], vol. 2, 1842), religious poem
- Pyłki (Dust), aphoristic poem
- Rojenia wiośniane — sung poem
- Rusałki (1829) — fantasy poem
- Śliczny chłopiec — sung poem
- Śpiew poety (1823) — lyric
- Tędy, tędy leciał ptaszek — sung poem
- Duch od stepu (The Spirit from the Steppe, 1841 poem)
Collections
- Pisma zbiorowe (Collected Writings, vols. 1–4, 1877)
- Dzieła pośmiertne (Posthumous Works, vols. 1–2, 1891)
- Korespondencja (Correspondence, vols. 1–5, 1900–04)
Source: wikipedia.org
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29.11.1830 | November Uprising
The November Uprising (1830–31), Polish–Russian War 1830–31 also known as the Cadet Revolution, was an armed rebellion in the heartland of partitioned Poland against the Russian Empire. The uprising began on 29 November 1830 in Warsaw when the young Polish officers from the local Army of the Congress Poland's military academy revolted, led by lieutenant Piotr Wysocki. They were soon joined by large segments of Polish society, and the insurrection spread to the territories of Lithuania, western Belarus, and the right-bank of Ukraine. Despite some local successes, the uprising was eventually crushed by a numerically superior Imperial Russian Army under Ivan Paskevich. Czar Nicholas I decreed that henceforth Poland was an integral part of Russia, with Warsaw little more than a military garrison, its university closed.