Kornel Ujejski
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Kornel Ujejski (September 12, 1823 in Beremyany, Galicia, Austria - September 19, 1897 in Pavliv near Lviv, Galicia, Austria), also known as Cornelius Ujejski, was a Polish poet, patriot and political writer of the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary.
He was named "last of the greatest Polish poets of Romanticism".
Kornel was born in a village on Dniester between Buchach and Tlumach. Ujejski was involved in Poland's struggle for independence after it had been partitioned and erased from the map of Europe by neighbouring countries (Russian Empire, Prussia and Austrian Empire). In 1846, at the instigation of the Austrian Government during the Kraków Uprising, the Galician peasants massacred several thousand of the nobility. Ujejski then gave utterance to the universal feeling of indignation in his powerful poem Choral, which has become one of the notable patriotic Polish songs of that period.
The political situation in partitioned Poland was reflected in his poems and political writing. His writing conveyed patriotic and historic message and was meant to support the Polish people in their fight for independence.
Works[]
- Maraton (Marathon, 1845)
- Pieśni Salomona (The Songs of Solomon, 1846)
- Skargi Jeremiego (The Complaints of Jeremy, 1847)
- Do Moskali (To the Muscovites, 1862)
- Tłumaczenia Szopena (Translations of Chopin, 1866)
See also[]
- Polish literature
- List of Polish language poets
- History of Poland
External links[]
- Dr Marek Adamiec: Kornel Ujejski
- Melnyk, I. The most famous Polish poet of Galicia (Найвідоміший польський поет Галичини). . 11 September 2013
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Wikisource has the text of the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia article Cornelius Ujejski. |
- 1823 births
- 1897 deaths
- People from Buchach Raion
- Polish poets
- Polish political writers
- 19th-century Polish poets
- 19th-century Polish male writers
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