Adam StanisÅ‚aw Naruszewicz (Lithuanian: Adomas NaruÅ¡eviÄ ius) (20
October 1733 â€" 8 July 1796) was a Polish-Lithuanian nobleman from an
impoverished aristocratic family, poet, historian, dramatist,
translator, publicist, Jesuit and titular Bishop of Smolensk
(1775â€"1788 as suffragan bishop and 1788â€"1790 as full diocesan
bishop) and bishop of Å uck (1790â€"1796). [1] His family had a small
estate in Polesie, and he was educated at Pinsk.As a senator he
participated in the Great Sejm. He taught at Warsaw Collegium Nobilum
Societatis Jesu. After the suppression of the Jesuit Order in 1773,
King Stanislaus arranged for him the bishop's seat. After Polish
defeat in the Polishâ€"Russian War of 1792 he withdrew from the
political life and permanently settled in Janów Podlaski where he
died in 1796.Naruszewicz was the first modern historian who wrote a
History of the Polish Nation. He used for the first time in a
historical work the expression Piast dynasty for the Piast the
Wheelwright and his descendants that ruled in Poland to 1370.
Nevertheless, the term Piast dynasty was first used in the late 17th
century[2] in the Silesian Piast mausoleum in Legnica.
October 1733 â€" 8 July 1796) was a Polish-Lithuanian nobleman from an
impoverished aristocratic family, poet, historian, dramatist,
translator, publicist, Jesuit and titular Bishop of Smolensk
(1775â€"1788 as suffragan bishop and 1788â€"1790 as full diocesan
bishop) and bishop of Å uck (1790â€"1796). [1] His family had a small
estate in Polesie, and he was educated at Pinsk.As a senator he
participated in the Great Sejm. He taught at Warsaw Collegium Nobilum
Societatis Jesu. After the suppression of the Jesuit Order in 1773,
King Stanislaus arranged for him the bishop's seat. After Polish
defeat in the Polishâ€"Russian War of 1792 he withdrew from the
political life and permanently settled in Janów Podlaski where he
died in 1796.Naruszewicz was the first modern historian who wrote a
History of the Polish Nation. He used for the first time in a
historical work the expression Piast dynasty for the Piast the
Wheelwright and his descendants that ruled in Poland to 1370.
Nevertheless, the term Piast dynasty was first used in the late 17th
century[2] in the Silesian Piast mausoleum in Legnica.
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