Ryszard Wincenty Berwiński

Polish author

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Born:: February 28, 1819, Polwica, Poznań, Prussia [now in Poland]

Died:: November 9, 1879, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire [now Istanbul, Turkey] (aged 60)

Subjects Of Study:: Polish; folklore

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Ryszard Wincenty Berwiński (born February 28, 1819, Polwica, Poznań, Prussia [now in Poland]—died November 9, 1879, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire [now Istanbul, Turkey]) was a Polish poet, folklorist, and politician, best known for his Poezje (1844; “Poems”), which marked him as a poet of social radicalism. Initially influenced by Romantic poetry, Berwiński studied and collected folklore in western Poland, wrote his own poems and stories, and eventually penned the pioneering Studia o literaturze ludowej (1854; “Studies in Folk Literature”). Gradually his poetry assumed a more revolutionary character (Księga życia i śmierci, 1842; “The Book of Life and Death”), expressing the conflict ...(100 of 140 words)

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