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JULIAN URSIN NIEMCEWICZ (1758-1841)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 672 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JULIAN URSIN NIEMCEWICZ (1758-1841)  ,
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Polish scholar, poet and statesman, was born in 1757 in Lithuania . In the earlier
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part of his
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life he acted as adjutant to Kosciusko, was taken prisoner with him at the fatal
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battle of Maciejowice (1794), and shared his captivity at St
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Petersburg . On his release he travelled for some time in
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America, where he married . After the Congress of Vienna he was secretary of state and president of the constitutional committee in Poland, but in 1830—1831 he was again driven into exile . He died in Paris on the 21st of
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April 1841 . Niemcewicz tried many styles of composition . His
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comedy The Return of the Deputy (1790) enjoyed a
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great reputation, and his novel, John of Tenczyn (1825), in the style of Scott, gives a vigorous picture of old Polish days . He also wrote a
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History of the Reign of Sigismund III . (3 vols., 1819), and a collection of
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memoirs for ancient Polish history (6 vols., 1822–1823) . But he is now best remembered by his
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Historical Songs of the Poles (Warsaw, 1816), a series of lyrical compositions in which the chief heroes are of the
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golden age of Sigismund I., and the reigns of Stephen Bathori and Sobieski . His collected
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works were published in 12 vols. at
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Leipzig (1838-1840) .

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