Ignacy TaÅ„ski (1761 â€" 15 August 1805) was a Polish official,
playwright, poet, translator and freemason.He was educated at the
Jesuit Collegium Nobilium in Warsaw. Initially, he worked as a lower
office clerk at the Police Department by the Permanent Council
(1778â€"1789), and later as the secretary of the Sejm Deputation for
investigating Koliyivshchyna (1789â€"1790) and as a member of the
Foreign Affairs Department of King Stanisław August Poniatowski
(1793â€"1794). He was an active participant of the cultural and
literary life of Warsaw, being a guest to various aristocratic
salons.During the Kościuszko Uprising (1794) he cooperated with the
Foreign Affairs Department and the Security Department of the Supreme
National Council. In the Uprising, he lost his possessions and office,
as well as both parents who fell victim to the slaughter of Praga.
Around 1801 he settled down in Puławy to work as the secretary of
Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski. He wrote sentimental and occasional poems,
pastoral plays and comedies. He also wrote a libretto for one opera.
The collective edition of his works titled Wiersze i pisma różne
(Various Poems and Writings) was published posthumously in 1808.He was
the father of Klementyna Hoffmanowa and the uncle of Marceli
Tarczewski.
playwright, poet, translator and freemason.He was educated at the
Jesuit Collegium Nobilium in Warsaw. Initially, he worked as a lower
office clerk at the Police Department by the Permanent Council
(1778â€"1789), and later as the secretary of the Sejm Deputation for
investigating Koliyivshchyna (1789â€"1790) and as a member of the
Foreign Affairs Department of King Stanisław August Poniatowski
(1793â€"1794). He was an active participant of the cultural and
literary life of Warsaw, being a guest to various aristocratic
salons.During the Kościuszko Uprising (1794) he cooperated with the
Foreign Affairs Department and the Security Department of the Supreme
National Council. In the Uprising, he lost his possessions and office,
as well as both parents who fell victim to the slaughter of Praga.
Around 1801 he settled down in Puławy to work as the secretary of
Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski. He wrote sentimental and occasional poems,
pastoral plays and comedies. He also wrote a libretto for one opera.
The collective edition of his works titled Wiersze i pisma różne
(Various Poems and Writings) was published posthumously in 1808.He was
the father of Klementyna Hoffmanowa and the uncle of Marceli
Tarczewski.
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