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NIEMCEWICZ, JULIAN URSIN (1758-1841)

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NIEMCEWICZ, JULIAN URSIN (1758-1841)

NIEMCEWICZ, See also:
JULIAN (FLAVIUS CLAUDIUS JULIANUS) (331-363)
JULIAN URSIN (1758-1841) , See also:

POLISH

Polish See also:

SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar, poet and statesman, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in 1757 in Lithuania. In the earlier See also:

PART

part of his See also:

LIFE

life he acted as See also:

ADJUTANT (from Lat. adjutare, to aid)

adjutant to Kosciusko, was taken prisoner with him at the fatal See also:

BATTLE

battle of Maciejowice (1794), and shared his captivity at St See also:

PETERSBURG

Petersburg. On his See also:

RELEASE (O.Fr. reles, variant of relais, from relaisser, to release, let go, Lat. relaxare)

release he travelled for some See also:

time in See also:

AMERICA

America, where he married. After the See also:

CONGRESS (Lat. congressus, coming together, from congredi; cum, with, and gradus, step)

Congress of See also:

Vienna he was secretary of See also:

state and See also:

PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president of the constitutional See also:

COMMITTEE (from commute, an Anglo-Fr. past participle of commettre, Lat. committere, to entrust; the modern Fr. equivalent comite is derived from the Eng.)

committee in See also:

Poland, but in 1830—1831 he was again driven into See also:

EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)

exile. He died in See also:

Paris on the 21st of See also:

APRIL

April 1841. Niemcewicz tried many styles of See also:

composition. His See also:

COMEDY

comedy The Return of the See also:

DEPUTY (through the Fr. from a Late Lat. use of deputare, to cut off, allot; putare having the original sense of to trim, prune)

Deputy (1790) enjoyed a See also:

GREAT

great reputation, and his novel, See also:

John of Tenczyn (1825), in the See also:

style of See also:

Scott, gives a vigorous picture of old Polish days. He also wrote a See also:

HISTORY

History of the Reign of See also:

SIGISMUND (1368-1437)

Sigismund III. (3 vols., 1819), and a collection of See also:

MEMOIRS

memoirs for See also:

ancient Polish history (6 vols., 1822–1823). But he is now best remembered by his See also:

HISTORICAL

Historical Songs of the Poles (See also:

Warsaw, 1816), a See also:

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of lyrical compositions in which the See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief heroes are of the See also:

GOLDEN

golden See also:

AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of Sigismund I., and the reigns of See also:

Stephen Bathori and Sobieski. His collected See also:

WORKS

works were published in 12 vols. at See also:

LEIPZIG

Leipzig (1838-1840).

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