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Adam Mickiewicz

Adam Bernard Mickiewicz[a] (24 December 1798 – 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. He also largely influenced Ukrainian literature.[1] A principal figure in Polish Romanticism, he is one of Poland's "Three Bards" (Polish: Trzej Wieszcze)[2] and is widely regarded as Poland's greatest poet.[3][4][5] He is also considered one of the greatest Slavic[6] and European[7] poets and has been dubbed a "Slavic bard".[8] A leading Romantic dramatist,[9] he has been compared in Poland and Europe to Byron and Goethe.[8][9]

"Mickiewicz" redirects here. For the surname, see Mickiewicz (surname). For the crater on Mercury, see Mickiewicz (crater).

Adam Mickiewicz

Adam Bernard Mickiewicz
(1798-12-24)24 December 1798
Zaosie, Lithuania Governorate, Russian Empire

26 November 1855(1855-11-26) (aged 56)
Istanbul, Ottoman Empire

  • Poet
  • dramatist
  • essayist
  • professor of literature
(m. 1834; died 1855)

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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 Polish–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 Polish–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 was an activist, striving for a democratic and independent Poland. He died, probably of cholera, at Istanbul in the Ottoman Empire, where he had gone to help organize Polish forces to fight Russia in the Crimean War.


In 1890, his remains were repatriated from Montmorency, Val-d'Oise, in France, to Wawel Cathedral in Kraków, Poland.

His house in is now a museum (Adam Mickiewicz Museum, Navahrudak).[76]

Navahrudak

There is a Mickievičiaus Memorialinis Būtas-Muziejus Museum of Adam Mickiewicz in .

Vilnius

The in Kaunas where the school Mickiewicz attended used to be located has a museum devoted to him and his work.

House of Perkūnas

The house where he lived and died in Constantinople ().[41]

Adam Mickiewicz Museum, Istanbul

There is a in Paris, France.[77]

Musée Adam Mickiewicz

(Ode to Youth), 1820

Oda do młodości

(Ballads and Romances), 1822

Ballady i romanse

, 1823

Grażyna

(The Crimean Sonnets), 1826

Sonety krymskie

, 1828

Konrad Wallenrod

Księgi narodu polskiego i pielgrzymstwa polskiego (The Books of the Polish People and of the Polish Pilgrimage), 1832

(Sir Thaddeus, Mr. Thaddeus), 1834

Pan Tadeusz

Lausanne Lyrics, 1839–40

(Forefathers' Eve), four parts, published from 1822 to after the author's death

Dziady

L'histoire d'avenir (A History of the Future), an unpublished French-language science-fiction novel

List of things named after Adam Mickiewicz

List of Poles

Polish literature

All pages with titles containing Mickiewicz

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the : Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Adam Mickiewicz". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

public domain

Roman Koropeckyj (2008). . Cornell UP. ISBN 978-0-8014-4471-5.

Adam Mickiewicz: The Life of a Romantic

Jadwiga Maurer (1996). . Fabuss. ISBN 978-83-902649-1-2.

"Z matki obcej–": szkice o powiązaniach Mickiewicza ze światem Żydów (Of a Foreign Mother ... Sketches about Adam Mickiewicz's Ties to the Jewish World)

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Works by Adam Mickiewicz in eBook form

at Project Gutenberg

Works by Adam Mickiewicz

at Internet Archive

Works by or about Adam Mickiewicz

at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)

Works by Adam Mickiewicz

translated by Leo Yankevich

Four Sonnets

Translation of "the Akkerman Steppe"

translated by Edna W. Underwood

Sonnets from the Crimea (Sonety krymskie)

Adam Mickiewicz Selected Poems (in English)

: text, concordances and frequency list

Mickiewicz's works

Polish Literature in English Translation: Mickiewicz

Adam Mickiewicz Museum Istanbul (in Turkish)

Polish poetry in English (includes a few poems by Mickiewicz)

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Adam Mickiewicz

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Translating Mickiewicz: Poland's International Man of Mystery

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Adam Mickiewicz Slept Here! A Worldwide Guide to Museums of Poland’s Poetic Hero

at poezja.org (polish)

Adam Mickiewicz