Adam Bernard Mickiewicz ([mit͡sˈkʲɛvit͡ʂ] (listen); 24 December
1798 â€" 26 November 1855) was a Polish poet, dramatist, essayist,
publicist, translator and political activist. He is regarded as
national poet in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. A principal figure in
Polish Romanticism, he is one of Poland's "Three Bards" (Polish: Trzej
Wieszcze)[1] and is widely regarded as Poland's greatest
poet.[2][3][4] He is also considered one of the greatest Slavic[5] and
European[6] poets and has been dubbed a "Slavic bard".[7] A leading
Romantic dramatist,[8] he has been compared in Poland and Europe to
Byron and Goethe.[7][8]He is known chiefly for the poetic drama Dziady
(Forefathers' Eve) and the national epic poem Pan Tadeusz. His other
influential works include Konrad Wallenrod and Grażyna. All these
served as inspiration for uprisings against the three imperial powers
that had partitioned the Polishâ€"Lithuanian Commonwealth out of
existence.Mickiewicz was born in the Russian-partitioned territories
of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which had been part of the
Polishâ€"Lithuanian Commonwealth, and was active in the struggle to
win independence for his home region. After, as a consequence,
spending five years exiled to central Russia, in 1829 he succeeded in
leaving the Russian Empire and, like many of his compatriots, lived
out the rest of his life abroad. He settled first in Rome, then in
Paris, where for a little over three years he lectured on Slavic
literature at the Collège de France. He died, probably of cholera, at
Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire, where he had gone to help
organize Polish and Jewish forces to fight Russia in the Crimean War.
1798 â€" 26 November 1855) was a Polish poet, dramatist, essayist,
publicist, translator and political activist. He is regarded as
national poet in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. A principal figure in
Polish Romanticism, he is one of Poland's "Three Bards" (Polish: Trzej
Wieszcze)[1] and is widely regarded as Poland's greatest
poet.[2][3][4] He is also considered one of the greatest Slavic[5] and
European[6] poets and has been dubbed a "Slavic bard".[7] A leading
Romantic dramatist,[8] he has been compared in Poland and Europe to
Byron and Goethe.[7][8]He is known chiefly for the poetic drama Dziady
(Forefathers' Eve) and the national epic poem Pan Tadeusz. His other
influential works include Konrad Wallenrod and Grażyna. All these
served as inspiration for uprisings against the three imperial powers
that had partitioned the Polishâ€"Lithuanian Commonwealth out of
existence.Mickiewicz was born in the Russian-partitioned territories
of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which had been part of the
Polishâ€"Lithuanian Commonwealth, and was active in the struggle to
win independence for his home region. After, as a consequence,
spending five years exiled to central Russia, in 1829 he succeeded in
leaving the Russian Empire and, like many of his compatriots, lived
out the rest of his life abroad. He settled first in Rome, then in
Paris, where for a little over three years he lectured on Slavic
literature at the Collège de France. He died, probably of cholera, at
Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire, where he had gone to help
organize Polish and Jewish forces to fight Russia in the Crimean War.
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